Cosma Shiva Hagen

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Cosma Shiva Hagen
Hagen in 2012
Born	(1981-05-17) 17 May 1981 (age 40) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality	German, American
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1996–present
Parent(s)	Nina Hagen Ferdinand "Ferdi" Karmelk
Relatives	Eva-Maria Hagen (grandmother) Wolf Biermann (step-grandfather) Otis Chevallier-Hagen (half-brother)

Cosma Shiva Hagen (German: [ˈkɔs.ma ˈʃiː.va ˈhaːɡn̩] (listen); born 17 May 1981) is a German-American actress and voice actress. Although she speaks English, her acting roles have been largely confined to German language films and television productions. She also starred in an Irish film called Short Order (2005).

Born in Los Angeles, California, Cosma Shiva Hagen is the daughter of German singer Nina Hagen and Dutch musician Ferdinand Karmelk. As a child, she lived in London, Berlin, Paris, Ibiza, Lüneburg and Hamburg. Her grandmother is actress Eva-Maria Hagen and her step-grandfather is the East German dissident writer and singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann. Hagen's unusual name was picked by her mother, who claimed she saw a UFO while pregnant. "Cosma" is a reference to the cosmos, and "Shiva" is a reference to the Hindu god Shiva.

Selected filmography[]

• Das merkwürdige Verhalten geschlechtsreifer Großstädter zur Paarungszeit (1998), as Sandra
• 7 Dwarves – Men Alone in the Wood (2004), as Snow White

References[]

External links[]

• Cosma Shiva Hagen at IMDb
• Biography on Rosenthalusa.com