Cosma Shiva Hagen (born May 17, 1981, in Los Angeles, California) is a German-American actress and the daughter of singer Nina Hagen and musician Ferdinand Karmelk. Her grandmother is actress Eva-Maria Hagen, and her step-grandfather was East German dissident writer Wolf Biermann. Eva-Maria Hagen emigrated to West Germany during the 1970s. Cosma Shiva's name was chosen by her mother, inspired by a UFO sighting during pregnancy; "Cosma" refers to Cosmos, and "Shiva" refers to the Hindu god Shiva.
Shiva is mainly known in German-speaking countries and has mostly acted in German films and television, though she appeared in the Irish film Short Order (2005). She speaks German, English, French, and Spanish. As a child, she lived in London, Berlin, Paris, Ibiza, a boarding school in Lüneburg, and currently resides in Hamburg.
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