妈妈供职于德国汉莎航空公司,父亲和**是IT男,When Nadia Hilker was 17 years old, she and her mother flew from Munich to Berlin to meet with a potential acting agent, despite the fact that Hilker had never acted a day in her life. “I walked into the office and the agent just looked at me and said, ‘you’re an actor, I want you,’” Hilker says. “I thought she was cuckoo!” She booked her first role, a lead in a German TV movie, on her first audition. After a couple of years, though, she couldn’t quite find her place in film anymore. “I played a lot of rebellious young girls, and then I got older and we don’t really have a lot of ‘not a girl, not yet a woman’ parts in Germany, especially not for me as I’m very exotic-looking for Germans,” she says. “I kind of stopped working, and it was really bad. I was broke, ** parents had to support me, and I spent years in ** apartment just staring at the ceiling.” Her father was once again the one to pull her to acting. “I was thinking about becoming a stewardess,” she says, “and ** dad, who is very German in terms of being pragmatic and realistic, just said ‘no, you’re going to give it one **** year. And if nothing happens you can quit.’” In that year, she was cast as the lead in an independent film called “Spring.” “I stood in front of a camera again and realized how much I love it and need it and want it.”