Biography

Rena Niehaus was born in 1954 in Oldenburg, West Germany. She is an actress, known for Oedipus orca (1977), Arabella: Black Angel (1989) and Snatch (1976).

Petite figure

Ingenue-like face, but with some mischievous and even sneaky features

Fine, soft-silky blonde hair

Low-set fair eyebrows

Paolo Pasolini wanted her to play one of the leading roles in his film "120 Days of Sodom", but she refused after reading the script.

I thought I could have a say at 18, could assert myself - you're so smart and wise when you're 18... I wasn't entirely clear about that. I also felt like I'd somehow skipped a phase of my development. But I saw myself as a nice, little, blonde, naive girl who was cheeky and had a lot of wisdom!

[about herself at 20] I was always very excited by the idea of ​​getting to know the big wide world. I thought it was awesome because I could meet hundreds of people. That was my dream... Sometimes I felt like the small primrose from Oldenburg. I wondered what people would see in me, but I believed them at first...

[on her life after finishing the career] Your head is so full of all the baloney that's being said about you. And it takes a long time until you're back to normal. The applause stops... If you've only experienced that from the beginning, you quickly get used to the superficiality, the frills. And no matter how much you get confirmation of how much everyone loves you and how great you are, in the end it's all nonsense!

[about her past as an actress] I basically enjoyed it. The traveling, the people you met... and the money wasn't bad either. Sometimes I'd like to do it again, but I'd approach it from a completely different perspective. Nevertheless, for the most part, my experiences were good. I lived some years of my life so compressed because I had many opportunities that were denied to most other people. Today, I would consider acting more of a craft - a plumber plumbs, an actor acts, and that's it.

[about nudity on set] And I am [shy]. I searched for this fact to cover up always with a bit of impudence - ran to the enemy! My body was an Instrument, I waited on me at the time, legally unencumbered. Hundreds of thousands of others do it, too. For me, it was nothing special. But my shame threshold has certainly been sometimes addressed. I don't know to this day why I did in Munich, what I did there...