Nadja Uhl was born in Stralsund in 1972. “Four Minutes” marks her second collaboration with director Chris Kraus. Radiating as nurse “Zitrone”, a sex addict, in Kraus’s debut “Shattered Glass”, she fetched a nomination for the German Critics Award in 2003.
Alongside Julia Jentsch and Franka Potente, Nadja Uhl undeniably belongs to the most popular German actresses of her generation. She was discovered in her role as worker Tatjana in Volker Schlöndorff’s GDR-Drama “Die Stille nach dem Schuss – The Legend Of Rita", winning a Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 2001 Berlin Film Festival.
She received numerous other prizes, including the 2003 German Television Award for her portrayal of a miner’s wife in “Das Wunder von Lengede – The Miracle of Lengede”. She played the lead in the Dutch movie “The Twins” in 2004, which received an Oscar nomination.
With “Die Sturmflut– Storm Surge”, which broke all German TV ratings records, Uhl celebrated her ascent to Germany’s most sought-after thespian. She is considered a favourite for the 2006 German Film Award because of her impressive portrayal of a native Berliner in the audience’s darling “Summer in Berlin” (directed by Andreas Dresen).