Désirée Nosbusch
Désirée Nosbusch a.k.a. Désirée Becker (born 14 January 1965) is a Luxembourger actress and television presenter. She was born in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg to a Luxembourgish father and Italian mother. In the 1980s she lived in Manhattan, and from the 1990s to 2008 in Los Angeles, California.
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| Born | 14 January 1965 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg |
| Other names | Désirée Becker |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, singer and television presenter |
| Spouse(s) | Tom Bierbaumer (m. 2018) |
| Children | 2 |
Biography
Nosbusch speaks Luxembourgish, German, French, Italian and English. She has acted in both French-language and German-language films and television productions since her mid-teens. She was a member of the youth drama group of the Lycée Hubert Clément of Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg), and appeared in some Italian-language TV miniseries. She presented the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 in Luxembourg, and hosted a kids' version of the game show Ruck Zuck called "Kinder Ruck Zuck".
Nosbusch is also a singer. In 1984 she recorded a duet with Austrian singer Falco, "Kann es Liebe sein?".
Selected filmography
- After Midnight (1981, directed by Wolf Gremm)
- Der Fan (1982, directed by Eckhart Schmidt)
- The Abduction of the Sabine Women (1983, TV film, directed by Rolf von Sydow)
- Sing Sing (1983, directed by Sergio Corbucci)
- Questo e Quello (1983, directed by Sergio Corbucci)
- Good Morning, Babylon (1987, directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani)
- A.D.A.M. (1988, directed by Herbert Ballmann)
- A Wopbopaloobop A Lopbamboom (1989, directed by Andy Bausch)
- Jean Galmot, aventurier (1990, directed by Alain Maline)
- La Femme fardée (1990, directed by José Pinheiro)
- Felipe ha gli occhi azzurri (1991, TV miniseries, directed by Gianfranco Albano and Felice Farina)
- Ex und hopp – Ein böses Spiel um Liebe, Geld und Bier (1991, TV film, directed by Andy Bausch)
- Piazza di Spagna (1993, TV miniseries, directed by Florestano Vancini)
- The Way to Dusty Death (1995, TV film, directed by Geoffrey Reeve)
- Opernball (1998, TV film, directed by Urs Egger)
- Amico mio (1998, TV series, directed by Paolo Poeti)
- Contaminated Man (2000, directed by Anthony Hickox)
- High Explosive (2001, directed by Timothy Bond)
- Hostile Takeover (2001, directed by Carl Schenkel)
- Avalanche (2008, TV film, directed by Jörg Lühdorff)
- De Superjhemp retörns (2018, directed by Félix Koch)
- Bad Banks (2018, TV series)
- Capitani (2019, TV series)
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