“A type of women, that belongs to yesterday, to the area of Romanticism, but also in the present, in the time of Egos, competition and stock market crashes.”
Helmut Sorge, DER SPIEGEL

Berlin-born Nina Franoszek is an award-winning actor who performed in over 100 feature films and television shows, including Roman Polanski’s “The Pianist” and the Emmy Award winning TV show “Mad Men. She co-starred with Tilda Swinton in “The Party: Nature Morte” and Donald Sutherland and Geraldine Chaplin in “Buster’s Bedroom”. Currently she can be seen on HBO’s TV show “The Brink” opposite Tim Robbins and Jack Black. In Germany she recently finished shooting a guest star role in two episodes of Disappeared –The M.P.U. (“Letzte Spur Berlin”) and a leading role in a TV comedy.

Nina Franoszek is a veteran VO talent and passionate motion capture performer, who plays the main antagonist “Frau Engel” in the “Inglourious Basterds-esk” cinematic video game “Wolfenstein: The New Order” and “the New Colossus”. For her performance she was nominated for a BTVA Video Game Voice Acting Award in 2017.

Her awards include a Grimme Prize (Germany’s Emmy Award) for best leading actress and a German Screen Actors Award for best Ensemble in the TV series “Weissensee Saga II” in 2014.

She is a member of SAG-AFTRA, Germany’s Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and served as a juror for the international Emmy Awards (2007 -2018).

She received an MFA in Performing Arts from the University of Theater Music and Media Hannover, Germany and was a finalist for membership at the legendary Actors Studio. She continued her training for more then 15 years under the artistic direction of Ellen Burstyn, Harvey Keitel, & Al Pacino in NYC, Mark Rydell and Martin Landau in West Hollywood.

PRESS QUOTES
"Her strength lies in her classical looks and rich inner life, an interesting mix of rich sensuality and comfortable self-confidence. She has a passion for life, the arts and loves the facets of human nature. A type of woman that belongs to yesterday, to the area of Romanticism, but also in the present, in the time of Egos, competition and stock market crashes." – By Helmut Sorge, Der Spiegel

"Early in the game you’ll encounter the main antagonist, Frau Engel, who is played by the magnificent Nina Franoszek in a performance that conjures the majesty of Jessica Lange from season 4 of “American Horror Story.” - By Tristan Greene TNW Gaming

“Frau Engel (Nina Franoszek), the primary antagonist is a villain worthy of Tarantino, simultaneously cartoonish and terrifying. It’s hard to imagine how MachineGames will be able to top Engel in the inevitable followup. - By Jake Leary, The Ithacan

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