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Nadeshda Brennicke was born on the 21st of April, 1973 in the city of Freiburg. From 1989 to 1991, she attended the Zinner Acting School in Munich, was then discovered by Sönke Wortmann and made her film debut in the comedy "Manta – Der Film". Playing supporting roles in the television series "Anwalt Abel" and in such films as "Workaholic" and also a main role in Christian Petzold's first feature film "Pilotinnen", she achieved her breakthrough in 1998 as the police woman in the TV-series "Straßen von Berlin". In 2000, she received the Adolf Grimme Public Award for her performance in the TV-drama "Das Phantom".
For two roles in the demanding television productions Dominik Graf's "Hotte im Paradies" and the episode "Silikon Walli" of the series "Polizeiruf 110", Brennicke was nominated for German Television Award. In the last few years she played in such different films as the swindler comedy "Kanak Attak", Robert Schwentke's dark thriller "Tattoo" and the comedies "Basta - Rotwein oder Totsein" and "Die Bluthochzeit". In Andreas Morell's episodic drama "Unschuld" (2008), Brennicke plays a police woman. The same year she joined the cast of the crime drama "Darum", playing the wife of an unassuming man who suddenly becomes a murderer.
Brennicke then worked primarily in television, having memorable turns in the TV productions "Frauen wollen mehr" (2009), "Liebe ist nur ein Wort" (2010), "8 Uhr 28" (2010) and "Der Heiratsschwindler und seine Frau" (2012). She also frequently guest-starred on popular TV shoes and was a regular cast member of the 2013 dramedy series "Add a Friend".
After a supporting role in Ed Herzog's rural crime caper "Dampfnudelblues", Nadeshda Brennicke starred in Christian Alvart's "Banklady", playing the infamous German female bank robber Gisela Werler, who raided nearly twenty banks in the 1960s. Her performance won Brennicke the Actor Award at the Chicago International Film Festival, and the film was released theatrically in March 2014.
For television, Brennicke took on a leading role in the ensemble comedy "Frauenherzen" (2014), playing a successful modeling agent forced to choose between career and love on the eve of her honeymoon. She reprised the role the following year in the spin-off series "Frauenherzen – Die Serie." Also in 2015, she appeared in a key role in the miniseries "The Team," portraying the ruthless wife of a Lithuanian mobster. That same year, she was part of the ensemble in the "Taunuskrimi" episode "Wer Wind sät" and in the comedy "Blütenträume," about participants in a flirtation course who decide to take their training into their own hands.
In a leading cinema role, Brennicke appeared under the direction of Dito Tsintsadze in the tragicomedy "God of Happiness" (DE/FR/GE, 2015), playing an actress enlisted to help an unsuccessful actor convince his daughter that he is living the life of a star.
Further big-screen appearances include "Anna Fucking Molnar," in which she plays the title character's mother, as well as "Wendy – Der Film" and "Wendy 2 – Freundschaft für immer", where she appears as the cool-headed owner of a modern riding stable.
Above all, however, Brennicke has appeared in a wide range of television productions—for instance as the wicked queen in "Schneewittchen und der Zauber der Zwerge," directed by Ngo The Chau; as a senior police director in Ngo's Berlin-based "Tatort" drama "Das Mädchen, das allein nach Haus' geht;" and as the 'favorite colleague' of a directionless lottery millionaire in the romantic comedy "2 unter Millionen."
She most recently returned to the big screen in a leading role as the wife of a man haunted by childhood trauma in the drama "Tod meiner Jugend" ("Death of My Youth"), based on the autobiographical novel by Kai Peter.