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Place of Birth: Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Gruschenka Stevens
- Gruschenka Stevens (born Grace Simon, July 16, 1974 in Cologne, Germany) is a German actress and singer. At the age of six, she played a role in the film "An afternoon in Cologne" and had, shortly after a guest appearance on the popular children's show "The TV-Show with the Mouse".
- At age 11, she acted in a play at the Schauspielhaus in Cologne and went with 17 years to New York where she took acting classes at the studios of Herbert Berghoff & Uta Hagen.
- She then attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in NYC, London, and Los Angeles where she promptly received her first role in a Canadian-German soap opera. In the movies Nobody loves me by Doris Dörrie and Full normaaal 1994 Gruschenka received first small roles in German film.
- In 1995, she was widely noticed as she enacted, under the direction of Ralf Huettner, a hospital switchboard operator in The cold finger. In 1999, she embodied a singer in Sherry Horman's Widows and an overwhelmed, struggling mother in Get away from here directed by Franziska Buch, which for this film was awarded the Max Ophüls Prize.
- In 2001, once again directed by Huettner she acted in the film adaptation of the bestseller book by Ildiko von Kürthy Moonlight Tariff on the side of Jasmin Tabatabai.
- In the popular movie Moonlight Tariff she played a very urban and very confused woman, in her late twenties, who after many romantic misunderstandings, still gets to have her ‘Mr.Right‘in the end.
- After that she paired up with director Vivian Naefe with whom she created 2 TV movies in a row To be crazy is normal a musical-tragic-comedy on the side of Dieter Pfaff and the black humour comedy Men piece-by-piece. With the invitation of EMI Publishing USA, Gruschenka Stevens moved to NYC, to collaborate with several songwriters in NYC and Nashville developing her singing career.
- In 2004, she returned to Germany to undergo full-time studies in singing and composition which she completed in 2008.
- Since then Gruschenka Stevens is working as a singer/songwriter under her maiden name Grace Simon.
- She performed on the 25th anniversary of Greenpeace, on the opening of the Design fair in the Women's Museum, Bonn and for a big German newspaper, the Cologne Stadt-Anzeiger.
- Currently she is working on her debut CD.
- Parallel to her music career, Gruschenka Stevens continues to work as an actress.
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