Désirée Nosbusch accepts Jupiter Award

Luxembourgish actor and director Désirée Nosbusch has received a prestigious German cinema and television award.

Nosbusch, who is also a producer and presenter, was awarded the Honorary Jupiter accolade on Thursday to mark her career in the television and film industry. The Jupiter Awards ceremony was given by magazines TV Spielfilm and Cinema and took place in the borthern German city of Hamburg.

The Luxembourg presenter, actress was born in Esch/Alzette in January 1965 to a Luxembourgish father and Italian mother.

She came to fame as a teenage TV presented in Germany, then starred in more than 15 films including Good Morning, Babylon (1987) and Luxembourg superhero comedy De Superjhemp retörns (2018), directed by Félix Koch.

More recently, Nosbusch has also turned to directing and producing. Her first feature at the helm, Poison, starring Tim Roth and Trine Dyrholm, was nominated for the best Luxembourg feature film at the 2025 Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis.

This article was originally published in the Luxemburger Wort, translated using AI and edited by Kate Oglesby