Gruschenka Stevens is a German actress and singer. At the age of six, she played a role in the film "An afternoon in Cologne" and had, shortly after a guest appearance on the popular children's show "The TV-Show with the Mouse". At age 11, she acted in a play at the Schauspielhaus in Cologne and went with 17 years to New York where she took acting classes at the studios of Herbert Berghoff & Uta Hagen. She then attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in NYC, London, and Los Angeles where she promptly received her first role in a Canadian-German Soap Opera. In the movies ?Nobody loves me? by Doris Dorrie and ?Full normaaal? 1994 Gruschenka received first small roles in German film. In 1995, she was widely noticed as she enacted, under the direction of Ralf Huettner, a hospital switchboard operator in ?The cold finger?. In 1999, she embodied a singer in Sherry Hormans ?Widows? and an overwhelmed, struggling mother in ?Get away from here? directed by Franziska Buch, which for this film was awarded the Max Oph�ls Prize. [More at Wikipedia]

July 16th, 1974 in Cologne (Age 50)