Nora Tschirner, born on June 12th 1981 in East Berlin, is the daughter of documentary filmmaker Joachim Tschirner. She played her first parts in Connie Walther"s teenager drama "Wie Feuer und Flamme" (Never Mind The Wall, 2000/2001) and in the late afternoon TV series "Sternenfänger". After playing the leading female part in "Soloalbum" (Solo Album, 2002/2003), an adaptation of a novel by Benjamin Stuckrad-Barre, Tschirner made her stage debut in a production of "Trainspotting" at Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. She then continued her movie career with Anno Saul"s comedy "Kebab Connection" (2004). Besides her work as an actress, Tschirner was a presenter for MTV Germany and for "Radio Fritz", a Berlin-based radio station.

Tschirner established her reputation and special talent for sensitive yet self-confident and strong-willed characters with her following films: In "FC Venus" ("FC - Women with Balls ") Tschirner portrays a laddish soccer football player, and in Til Schweiger"s "Keinohrhasen" she plays a day nursery teacher who hides her furious temper behind a "mousy" façade.

In her next film, the comedy "Mord ist mein Geschäft, Liebling", Tschirner again played a cute character that masks an unimagined temper. In the film, she plays a clumsy publisher"s employee who falls in love with a contract killer without knowing about his profession. In the movie remake of the cult children"s series "Die Vorstadtkrokodile", Nora Tschirner will be seen as the mother of paralyzed Hannes.

She reprised the role in the sequels "Vorstadtkrokodile 2" and "Vorstadtkrokodile 3". In 2010, she also appeared in the childrens' film "Hier kommt Lola!" and played opposite Herbert Knaup in the romantic comedy "Bon Appetit". Following her parts in the tragiccomedy "Ein Tick anders" (2011) and Matthias Schweighöfer's box office hit "What a Man" (2011), Tschirner starred in the romantic crime comedy "Offroad" (2012),  playing a young woman who leaves her dull life behind and tries to finance her  new existence by selling cocaine she accidentally found hidden in her car.