Nadja Uhl (born 23 May 1972) is a German actress. She studied at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy College of Music and Theatre in Leipzig from 1990 to 1994 and began her theatre career at the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam in 1994. In 2006, she opened a music hall there with her companion Kay Bockhold.
Uhl's first film appearance was in 1993 in Thomas Koerfer's Der Grüne Heinrich. She gained international recognition in 2000 for her role as Tatjana in Volker Schlöndorff's The Legend of Rita, winning the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival and receiving a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the German Film Awards. In 2002, she appeared in Twin Sisters, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. She was nominated for Best Actress at the German Film Awards for her role in Summer in Berlin (2005). In 2006, she starred in the RTL TV miniseries Die Sturmflut about the North Sea flood of 1962. In 2008, she played Brigitte Mohnhaupt in Der Baader Meinhof Komplex and portrayed flight attendant Gabriele Dillmann in a TV production about the 1977 Lufthansa Flight 181 hijacking. Nadja Uhl has a daughter born on 28 October 2006.
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