Jessica Higgins

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Jessica Nony Higgins (* 1976 in Lüneburg ) is a German - British actress .

Life

Growing up in Lüneburg and Oxford , Jessica Higgins received an acting training from 1995 to 1998 at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich . She gained her first stage experience in 1997 at the Münchner Kammerspiele . From 1999 to 2001 she had an engagement at the Bielefeld Theater and then from 2001 to 2002 she played at the Volkstheater in Munich . Other stations included the German Playhouse and the Thalia Theater in Hamburg , the Nationaltheater Mannheim , the Theater der Jugend in Vienna and the Theater Bonn . In 2005 she was awarded the Rosenthal Young Talent Prize at the Luisenburg Festival in Wunsiedel . From the 2008/2009 season she was engaged at the Landestheater Tübingen . Here she also embodied leading roles in Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen , in Friedrich Schiller's Maria Stuart and in an adaptation of Hermann Hesse's novel Der Steppenwolf . From 2014 to 2017 she was a member of the ensemble at Theater Augsburg . There she was seen as “Margaret” in the play The Cat on the Hot Tin Roof next to Ronny Miersch .

In the 2017/18 season she moved to the Staatstheater Darmstadt .

Jessica Higgins acted in several film and television productions . Among them in 2011 was the feature film A Dark Desire by David Cronenberg with Michael Fassbender , Keira Knightley and Viggo Mortensen . She appeared as an actress in an episode of METRO - A Team for Life and Death and was seen in the 2013 television film in cold blood from the Tatort television series as a public prosecutor Lebeck .

Roles (selection)

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Short portrait of Jessica Higgins online at Landestheater Tübingen ; Retrieved September 17, 2014
  2. ↑ Winners of the young talent awards ( Memento from October 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on luisenburg-aktuell.de; Retrieved April 29, 2016
  3. ↑ Hedda Gabler's cast list on ibsen.net; Retrieved February 1, 2013
  4. ↑ Duel of the Mighty on Augsburger Allgemeine online; Retrieved February 1, 2013
  5. ^ A pack of wolves ( memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on Lippische Landes-Zeitung online; Retrieved April 29, 2016
  6. ↑ Short portrait of Jessica Higgins ( Memento from September 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on Theater Augsburg online; Retrieved September 17, 2014
  7. ↑ Jessica Higgins ( Memento from December 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Darmstadt State Theater .
personal data
SURNAME Higgins, Jessica
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Higgins, Jessica Nony (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg