Helen Schneider

Darsteller

23. Dezember 1952 (73 Jahre)
Helen Schneider (born December 23, 1952) is an American singer and actress working mainly in Germany.

Helen Leslie Schneider was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the daughter of Dvora and Abraham Schneider. Schneider studied piano before forming her own blues band and playing in venues throughout New England and New York.

She has had a varied career in music, theater, recording, literature and film.

Between 1978 and 1984, she achieved success as a rock singer in Germany; her song "Rock 'n' Roll Gypsy" reached the top 10 record charts and she received a Gold Record Award and shared the Goldene Europa Award with John Lennon. In 1980 she toured with the German rock legend Udo Lindenberg. She played one of the leads in the 1983 film Eddie and the Cruisers, which has since gained a huge cult following, especially in Germany, where Schneider has name recognition.

In 1987, she began her theater career at the Theater des Westens in Berlin playing Sally Bowles in the musical Cabaret. From 1995 to 1998, she performed as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard by Andrew Lloyd Webber. From 1999 to 2001, she performed as Eva Perón in the musical Evita at the Bad Hersfelder Festspiele. In 2014 she starred as Judy Garland in the European production of End of the Rainbow. She received enormous acclaim for her one-woman performance pieces: A Walk on the Weill Side, A Voice and A Piano, and Verwandlungen. In 2006 she received the DIVA – German Entertainment Prize for her lifetime achievements.

In 2007, Schneider returned to the recording business. She recorded three CDs with Edel Music. For "Dream a Little Dream" she received a golden CD award in jazz. In 2015, she signed with the independent record label SPV. She recorded her first original album in 30 years: "Collective Memory", with music composed by her guitarist, Jo Ambros, and lyrics written by her colleague and book co-author, Linda Uruburu. In 2017 this team followed up with Helen's latest album entitled: "Movin' On".

After a few successful Master Classes in 2018 Helen joined the teaching staff of Stage School Hamburg as a teacher of "Song Interpretation".

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Bekannt aus

  • Eddie und die Cruisers
    Eddie und die Cruisers1983
  • Into the Beat - Dein Herz tanzt
    Into the Beat - Dein Herz tanzt2020
  • Ku'damm 63
    Ku'damm 634 Folgen
  • Electric Child
    Electric Child2024
  • Liebe macht sexy
    Liebe macht sexy2009
  • Der Havelkaiser
    Der Havelkaiser1 Staffel

Filmografie

2024
Electric Child · as Lydia
2021
Ku'damm 63 · as Hannelore Lay
2020
Into the Beat · as Frau Rosebloom
2009
Liebe macht sexy · as Estelle Silver
2002
Das Duo · as Rebecca Perlmann
1998
Siska · as Joanne Flanders
1994
Der Havelkaiser · as Hillary Kaiser
1989
1983
Eddie and the Cruisers · as Joann Carlino
1980
Achtung Zoll! · as Cast
1970
Tatort · as Edda Bingley

2014
MDR um 4 · as Self
2012
Hallo Hessen · as Self
2008
2003
1999
Volle Kanne · as Self
1998
alpha-Forum · as Self
1996
Zimmer frei! · as Self
1994
1992
1991
DAS! · as Self
1988
3satfestival · as Self
1987
Nachtcafé · as Self
1986
1981
Wetten, dass..? · as Self
1979
NDR Talk Show · as Self
1978
The Jim Nabors Show · as Selfauf plex.tv
1977
1975
Midi-Première · as Self
1972
The Music Shop · as Self
1962
1961
The Mike Douglas Show · as Self - Vocalist
1957
Landesschau · as Self