Bio
Nora von Waldstätten is an Austrian actress best known to English-speaking audiences for her starring role as Gwenda, a young German immigrant peasant girl with no mother and an abusive father – Joby - who forces her to steal for him, in the television miniseries World Without End.
Von Waldstätten began acting in television and film while she was a student at the Berlin Arts University, where she graduated in 2007.
She started her career in films such as Jargo by Maria Solrun, Falscher Bekenner by Christoph Hochhausler, The Countess by Julie Delpy, Schwerkraft by Maximilian Erlenwein.
She also appeared in Tangerine by Irene von Alberti and gained international attention with a leading part in the French-German biopic Carlos, by Oliver Assayas.
Additonally, she has appeared in serveral theatre plays at the Deutsche Theater Berlin and Schauspiel Köln.
She won the Bunte Magazine "New Faces" award for best young German actress in 2009, and received the Max Ophuls Prize for "Most Promising Actress" in 2010.