Nora Tschirner

Nora Marie Tschirner, born 12 June 1981, is a German film actress, musician, and former television and radio presenter. She has worked across a variety of media formats, including feature films, television series, radio programming, music videos, and voice dubbing.

Tschirner was born in East Berlin, East Germany, to documentary film director Joachim Tschirner and radio journalist Waltraud Tschirner. She grew up in the East Berlin suburb of Pankow with her two older brothers. She attended the John-Lennon-Gymnasium in Berlin, where she befriended Sarah Kuttner, and later completed her Abitur at the Rosa-Luxemburg-Oberschule in Pankow. Tschirner made her initial television appearance in 1997 with a role in the ZDF children's series Achterbahn.

In 2001, Tschirner began working as a VJ for MTV, a role she maintained until 2007. During her broadcasting career, she hosted the radio program Blue Moon on Radio Fritz (RBB) alongside Stephan Michme. In 2004, she appeared with Christian Ulmen in his MTV show Ulmens Auftrag. She subsequently hosted the First Steps Awards in 2007 and featured as the main character in the music video for OneRepublic's song Secrets.

Her acting career gained momentum following her role as Anya in Conny Walter's 2001 film Never Mind the Wall. In 2002, she played the leading role of Paula Behringer in the ARD series Sternenfänger. She appeared alongside Matthias Schweighöfer as Katharina in the 2003 film Soloalbum, based on the novel by Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre. Tschirner then starred as Titzi in Anno Saul's 2005 film Kebab Connection, took minor television roles in Ein starkes Team and Abschnitt 40, and performed alongside Christian Ulmen in the film FC Venus.

In 2006, Tschirner performed in the ZDF science fiction series Ijon Tichy: Raumpilot, an adaptation of Stanisław Lem's The Star Diaries that won the German Television Prize and received a Grimme-Preis nomination. She starred opposite Til Schweiger in the 2007 romantic comedy Keinohrhasen, for which she won a Bambi award in the national film category in 2008. Between 2013 and 2021, Tschirner and Christian Ulmen starred as an investigator duo and couple in the Weimar-based episodes of the Tatort crime series. Her voice work includes voicing the lead character Merida in the 2012 German dub of Brave and voicing Lara Croft in the 2013 German release of the rebooted video game Tomb Raider.

As a musician, Tschirner participated in the songs Das ewige Date and Küss mich schnell bevor Du platzt on the album Brichst du mir das Herz, dann brech ich dir die Beine by Olli Schulz und der Hund Marie. In 2012, she formed the band project Prag with Tom Krimi and Erik Lautenschläger, releasing the cineastic pop album Premiere. Tschirner lives in Berlin and has one child, born in 2013.