Nicole Heesters (born 14 February 1937) is a German actress. She was born in

Potsdam Potsdam () is the capital and, with around 183,000 inhabitants, largest city of the German state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream o ...

and comes from a family of actors; her parents are

Johannes Heesters Johan Marius Nicolaas Heesters (5 December 1903 – 24 December 2011), known professionally as Johannes Heesters, was a Dutch actor of stage, television and film, as well as a vocalist of numerous recordings and performer on the concert stag ...

, a Dutch-German actor, and Louise Ghijs, a Belgian stage actress. Her husband was film director Pit Fischer and one of her children, daughter

Saskia Fischer Saskia Fischer (born 1966) is a German actress who began her career in 1991. She is the daughter of Nicole Heesters and the granddaughter of famous actors Johannes Heesters and Louisa Ghijs. Fischer has lived since 2002 with actor Mario Ramos i ...

, is also an actress. Nicole's older sister Wiesje (b. 1931) is a pianist in

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, Austria. Heesters lives in

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Selected filmography

* 1954: ''

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'' * 1955: '' Three Men in the Snow'' * 1955: ''

Her First Date ''Her First Date'' (German: ''Ihr erstes Rendezvous'') is a 1955 Austrian-West German romantic comedy film directed by Axel von Ambesser and starring Nicole Heesters, Paul Dahlke and Adrian Hoven.Fritsche p.255 It was shot in Agfacolor at the Sal ...

'' * 1972: ''

Alexander Zwo Alexander Zwo (literally translated "Alexander No. 2") is a German- French-Austrian-Italian TV mini-series directed by Franz Peter Wirth. Synopsis Mike Friedberg (Jean-Claude Bouillon) is a chemist in the United States. When his father dies in a ...

'' (TV miniseries) * 1981: ' * 1982: '' Kamikaze 1989'' * 1989: ''The Play with Billions'' (TV film) * 1997: ' (TV film) * 1998: '' Meschugge'' * 1999: ''

Klemperer – Ein Leben in Deutschland ''Klemperer – Ein Leben in Deutschland'' is a German television series based on the diary of Victor Klemperer. See also *List of German television series The following is a list of television series produced in Germany: Current Drama ...

'' (TV series) * 2000: ''Frauen lügen besser'' (TV film) * 2000: ''Für die Liebe ist es nie zu spät'' (TV film) * 2000: ''Deutschlandspiel'' (TV film), as

Margaret Thatcher Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (; 13 October 19258 April 2013) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the first female British prime ...

* 2001: ' (TV film) * 2002: ''

Der letzte Zeuge ''Der letzte Zeuge'' (''The Last Witness'') is a German crime television series set in Berlin. Created by Gregor Edelmann, it aired on ZDF from 1998 to 2007 and was mostly directed by Bernhard Stephan. It stars Ulrich Mühe as medical examine ...

: Die Kugel im Lauf der Dinge'' (TV) * 2002: ''

Donna Leon Donna Leon (; born in Montclair, New Jersey) is the American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice, Italy, featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti. In 2003, she received the Corine Literature Prize. Leon lived in Veni ...

: Nobiltà'' (TV) * 2003: ''Treibjagd'' (TV film) * 2003: ''

Rosamunde Pilcher Rosamunde Pilcher, OBE (''née'' Scott; 22 September 1924 – 6 February 2019) was a British writer of romance novels, mainstream fiction, and short stories, from 1949 until her retirement in 2000. Her novels sold over 60 million copies world ...

: Gewissheit des Herzens'' (TV film) * 2007: ''Zeit zu leben'' (TV film) * 2007: ''Sehnsucht nach Rimini'' (TV film) * 2007: ''Copacabana'' (TV film) * 2008–2010: ''

Der Kommissar und das Meer ''Der Kommissar und das Meer'' (Swedish title: ''Kommissarien och havet'') is a German-Swedish television series. It is loosely based on the crime novels by Mari Jungstedt. The series has been broadcast in Germany since 2007 on channels ZDF and ...

'' (TV series) * 2009: ''Fünf Tage Vollmond'' (TV film) * 2011: ''

SOKO Donau ''SOKO Donau'' (in Germany ''SOKO Wien'') is an Austrian crime drama television series produced by ORF in collaboration with the German network ZDF. It is the sixth spin-off of the German crime series ''SOKO 5113'' (''SOKO München'' since 201 ...

: Todesengel'' (TV) * 2011: ''Ein Sommer in Paris'' (TV film) * 2012: ''Die Holzbaronin'' (TV film) * 2020: ''Breaking Even'' (TV series)

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Nicole Heesters
on ''Kino.de'' (in German) * 1937 births Living people German stage actresses German people of Belgian descent German people of Dutch descent People from Potsdam {{Germany-stage-actor-stub