Vicky Krieps

Vicky Krieps (born 4 October 1983) is a Luxembourgish actress who has starred in a number of Luxembourgish, French and predominantly German productions.

Personal information

She was born in Luxembourg City as the daughter of a Luxembourgish father and a German mother.^[1] She is the granddaughter of Luxembourg politician and war-time member of the Resistance Robert Krieps. She is in a relationship with German actor Jonas Laux and mother of a daughter. The family lives in Berlin.^[2]

Career

Vicky Krieps gathered first acting experience at the Lycée de Garçons secondary school in Luxembourg, also receiving a first actual coaching at the Conservatoire of Luxembourg City. In 2004 she was far from convinced that an acting career would be her future, so, instead of immediately enrolling in one of the drama schools, she participated in a social project in the primary school of a South African Township near Knysna, confirming her resolve to study acting, with the goal of playing on theatre stages.^[3]

She enrolled in the Zurich University of the Arts (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste) while gathering acting experience at the Zurich playhouse (Schauspielhaus Zürich).

She played numerous roles in Luxembourgish productions and Luxembourgish-foreign coproductions before taking on increasingly important roles in exclusively foreign production, such as Hanna (2011), the biopic Rommel (2013), Before the Winter Chill (2013) and eventually the feature film Elly Beinhorn - solo flight, a biopic about the German aviation pioneer Elly Beinhorn.

Filmography ^[4]

• 2008 - La nuit passée (director: Eileen Byrne)
• 2009 - X on a Map (as Ana, director: Jeff Desom)
• 2009 - House of Boys (director: Jean-Claude Schlim)
• 2011 - Anonymous (as Bessie Vavasour, director: Roland Emmerich)
• 2011 - If Not Us, Who? (as Dörte, director: Andres Veiel)
• 2011 - Hanna (as Johanna Zadek, director: Joe Wright)
• 2011 - Tatort – Eine bessere Welt (A Better World) (as Mariam Sert, director: Lars Kraume)
• 2012 - D'Belle Époque (as Belle, director: Andy Bausch)
• 2012 - Formentera (as Mara, director: Ann-Kristin Reyels)
• 2012 - Measuring the World (as Johanna Gauß, director: Detlev Buck)
• 2012 - The Treasure Knights and the Secret of Melusina (as Marie, director: Laura Schroeder)
• 2012 - Rommel (as Comtesse de La Rochefoucauld, director: Niki Stein)
• 2012 - Two Lives (as Kathrin Lehnhaber, director: Georg Maas)
• 2013 - Möbius (as Olga, director: Eric Rochant)
• 2013 - Before the Winter Chill (as Caroline, director: Philippe Claudel)
• 2014 - Elly Beinhorn – Alleinflug (Elly Beinhorn - solo flight) (as Elly Beinhorn, director: Christine Hartmann)
• 2014 - A Most Wanted Man (as Niki, director: Anton Corbijn)
• 2014 - Das Zeugenhaus (as Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, director: Matti Geschonneck)
• 2014 - Das Zimmermädchen Lynn (as Lynn, director: Ingo Haeb)
• 2015 - Colonia Dignidad (director: Florian Gallenberger)
• 2015 - Tag der Wahrheit (as Marie Hoffmann, director: Anna Justice)
• 2015 - Mon cher petit village (German: Das gespaltene Dorf) (as Elisabeth, director: Gabriel Le Bomin)

Awards

• 2012 - Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis-Prix du jeune espoir (Luxembourg Film Award-Young Newcomer Award)^[5]
• 2008 - Budapest Short Film Festival-Best Youngster Award for "La nuit passée" by Eileen Byrne^[6]

References

External links

• Vicky Krieps at the Internet Movie Database
• Official page of Vicky Krieps.
• Vicky Krieps' page on the website of the Theater der Künste.
• Bucher, Heike. Ich fühle mich sehr wohl in Berlin.. (Tageblatt.lu)
• Leimann, Eric and Probst, Matthias. Pionierin der Lüfte. Vicky Krieps als Elly Beinhorn. In: Télécran 14/2014.
• Scheffen, Jean-Louis. Vicky und der Schmetterling. (Telecran.lu)