Nina Franoszek delivers authentic performances with depths, integrity and a range of emotions, while following artistic and technical direction. The growth arcs of her characters deliver fulfilling stories and help to realize the artistic vision unique to each project. She brings the flexibility to innovate, improvise and deliver as required to every stage, set or volume and is known for her positive, enthusiastically attitude in every aspect of her work.

Awards

  • Grimme Prize for Best Actress (Germany’s Emmy Award) 1998
  • German Screen Actors Award for Best Ensemble (The Weissensee Saga) 2014
  • BTVA Behind the Voice Actors Awards (Nominee Best female Vocal Performance) 2018
  • Best Audio book narrator Earphone Award 2020 (The German House, Harper Collins)

Professional Acting

Voice Over Talent / Director / Production Supervisor

  • 25+ years of bilingual Voice Over Work as a director, actor and production supervisor. (Disney, Universal Studios, Dreamworks, Amazon, Netflix, Apple)
  • Audiobook THE GERMAN HOUSE for Harper Collins for the US and Canadian Market. 

Director

Expert Speaker on Film, Acting and Content Creation

Professional Affiliations and Networks

  • Juror for the International Emmy Awards (2007-2020)   
  • German Directors Guild (since 2006 -2014)   
  • German Film Academy (since 2003)   
  • SAG/AFTRA member (since 2000)
  • Villa Aurora Foundation for European American Relations (since 2003)

Teaching and Coaching

  •  “Hollywood Acting Coach” for Heidi Klum “Germany’s Next Top Model” (2014 – 2017)
  • MFA Film Acting Program & “Acting for Directors” @ New York Film Academy in Los Angeles (NYFA)
  •  Video Game Voice Over Workshops for Japanese Kenshu ENT Program, Universal Studios, LA
  •    Motion Capture Performance Workshop at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)
  •   Motion Capture Performance Workshop at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 
  •   Exclusive career-seminars, coaching and consulting for actors and film professionals who want to    
      work in Hollywood @www.thehollywoodconnectress.com

Education

  •      University of Theater Music and Media Hannover, MFA in Performing Arts
  •      Actors Studio, finalist for membership 2000-2016 (under the artistic direction of Ellen Burstyn, Harvey Keitel, & Al Pacino in                     NYC, Mark Rydell and Martin Landau in LA).

Bio

Berlin-born Nina Franoszek is an award-winning actor, theater director and filmmaker, who performed in over 100 feature films and television shows, including Roman Polanski’s “The Pianist” and the Emmy Award winning TV show “Mad Men. She can currently be seen on HBO’s TV show “The Brink” opposite Tim Robbins and Jack Black.

She also worked for companies like Paramount, Universal, Walt Disney Pictures, Sony, Netflix, Amazon Studios, Apple, AMC, Twentieth Century Fox Film, FOX Network, Lionsgate, Bethesda among others and co-stared with celebrities like Tilda Swinton, Jordan Peele and Donald Sutherland.

In Germany she recently played a lead in “Summer Solstice”, a ninety-minute special of Disappeared –The M.P.U. (aka “Letzte Spur Berlin”, eighth season). The Berlin based TV show is inspired by the US series “Without a Trace”, but deeply anchored in German conditions. Nina Franoszek realistically embodies the villager Magda Wagner, a mother of a neo-Nazi, who is missing after he burnt down the home of immigrants. The TV movie was rated worth watching and seen by five million viewers.

The director Josh Broecker cast her again in “Camping Blues” (aka “Camping mit Herz”), which became one of the most-watched German TV- movies of the year 2020. “The quick-witted leading actors are at the center of the comedy, which plays subtly ironic with clichés and stereotypical campfire romance against the breathtaking background of the Baltic Sea.”

Franoszek is also a veteran VO talent and passionate motion capture performer, who plays the main antagonist “Frau Engel” in the “Inglourious Basterds-esk” cinematic video game “Wolfenstein: The New Order” and “the New Colossus”. For her performance she was nominated for a BTVA Behind the Voice Actors Awards in 2018.

Her awards include also a Grimme Prize (Germany’s Emmy Award) for best leading actress and a German Screen Actors Award for best Ensemble in the TV series “Weissensee Saga II” in 2014, as well as an Earphone Award for her narration of “The German House” for Harper Collins in 2020.

Nina brings more than 30 years of experience in the entertainment industry and continues to mentor and champion new and professional actors and filmmakers who want to work in Hollywood at https://thehollywoodconnectress.com. She is also a speaker at industry conventions such as Comic Con or Games Week Berlin and a college lecturer at prestigious universities like Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), California Institute of the Arts (CALArts) and many more.

She made her theatrical directing debut in 1999 at the Pacific Resident Theater in Los Angeles with the Strindberg plays “The Stronger” and “Playing with Fire”. The main roles were played by Orson Bean (“Being John Malkovich”), Alley Mills (The Wonder Years) and Paula Malcomson (The Hunger Games, Deadwood). David Patch the artistic director of the August Strindberg Society Los Angeles saw the play and soon after she was invited to join the Actors Studio Writers/Directors Unit under the guidance of director Mark Rydell and award winning playwright Lyle Kessler.

She made her film directing debut in 2007 with the court drama “Spin doctor” (aka “Der große Videoschwindel”), an episode of the compilation movie GG19 about the German Constitution (instituted in 1949 by the four allied forces that had just defeated the Nazis to obliterate any possibility of future dictatorships or any violation of human rights occurring on German soil ever again).

In “Spin doctor” A well-known journalist is charged of broadcasting “fake news”. After a hefty dispute with the judge and the public prosecutor, he threatens to turn to the public… A film about the crazy mechanisms of today’s media practice as a statement on freedom of expression (Germany’s Constitution, Article 5). – A subject more relevant then ever. The main roles are played by Justus von Dohnányi (The Downfall, The Experiment), Karoline Eichhorn (Dark, The Rock) and Nikki von Tempelhoff (The Experiment). Since there are two cut versions of the film, Franoszek used the pseudonym Alan Smithee of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) to point out that there is a directors cut, that is screened independently.

She is a member of SAG-AFTRA, BFFS (German Screen Actors Guild), Germany’s Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and served as a juror for the international Emmy Awards (2007 – 2020).

Nina received an MFA in Performing Arts from the University of Theater Music and Media Hannover, Germany and was a finalist for membership at the legendary Actors Studio, where she continued her training for more then 15 years under the artistic direction of Mark Rydell and Martin Landau in West Hollywood. She lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles.