Nicolette Krebitz, born September 2, 1972, in Berlin, started her acting career at the age of eleven with a leading role in the TV movie "Ich wette, es wird ein Junge". Later she became the host of "Disney-Club" and attended actor"s training at the Fritz Kirchhoff drama school. In 1995, Krebitz won the Grimme award for her part as an AIDS victim in Markus Imboden"s film "Ausgerechnet Zoé". Krebitz also appeared in several unconventional parts in niche films such as "Long Hello and Short Goodbye" (1998), "Fandango" ("Fandango - Members Only ", 2000), and "Die Männer ihrer Majestät" ("All the Queen"s Men", 2001). In 2001, Krebitz made her directing debut with "Jeans". Furthermore, she won a Goldene Schallplatte for her soundtrack to the film "Bandits" and sang with the club music band Terranova. Also, Hamburg-based rock band Tocotronic paid homage to her in their song "Nicolette Krebitz wartet".

Since directing her first film, Krebitz only sporadically appeared as an actress on the movie screen. Instead, she was occasionally seen in TV crime series such as "Tatort" or "Spezialisten: Kripo Rhein-Main". In 2007, Krebitz returned to the big screen with her second film as a director, the star-studded family drama "Das Herz ist ein dunkler Wald" ("The Heart is a Dark Forest") but did not play a part herself.

In 2009, Krebitz returned to the movie screen in an acting role: In Anne Hoegh Krohn’s love story "Liebeslied", she plays a woman whose partner falls ill with Parkinson disease. After "Liebeslied", Krebitz played another leading role in Christoph Hochhäusler’s film "Unter dir die Stadt" (2010), a film about a bank manager who exploits his power and influence to get his lover’s husband out of the way.