Greta Schröder

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1892-06-27 (88 years old)

Deathday

1980-06-08

Place of Birth

Düsseldorf, Germany

Greta Schröder

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Greta Schröder (7 September 1891 – 13 April 1967) was a German actress. She is best known for the role of Thomas Hutter's wife and victim to Count Orlok in the 1922 silent film Nosferatu. In the fictionalized 2000 film, Shadow of the Vampire, she is portrayed as having been a famous actress during the making of Nosferatu, but in fact she was little known. The bulk of her career was during the 1920s, and she continued to act well into the 1950s, but by the 1930s her roles had diminished to only occasional appearances. Following a failed marriage with struggling actor Ernst Matray, she was married to film ...

Acting

1922

Nosferatu

as Ellen

1920

1998

Nosferatu: The First Vampire

as Ellen Hutter (archive footage)

2022

Dracula Unearthed

as Ellen (archive footage)

1937

Victoria the Great

as Baroness Lehzen

1930

The Twelfth Hour

as Margitta Kundberg

2023

The Tomb of Nosferatu

as Ellen (archive footage)

1938

Sixty Glorious Years

as Baronin Lehzen

1923

Paganini

as Antonia Paganini

1921

1953

Annaluise & Anton

as Gesellschafterin auf Party (uncredited)

Production

1915

1916

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