Greta Schröder (27 June 1892 – 8 June 1980) was a German actress. She is best known for the role of Ellen Hutter, Thomas Hutter's wife and the cause of Count Orlok's destruction in Nosferatu (1922). 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 actor and film director Paul Wegener.
According to the Austrian writer Kay Weniger, Greta Schröder died in 1980, though some sources mention 1967.
Filmography Actress 1913: 1920: The Red Peacock as Alfred's sister 1920: The Golem: How He Came into the World as a lady of the court 1920: The Closed Chain 1921: The Lost Shadow as Countess Dorothea Durande 1921: Circus of Life as Alegria 1921: Marizza as Sadja 1922: Nosferatu as Ellen Hutter 1922: 1923: 1923: Paganini as Antonia Paganini 1930: (re-edited version of Nosferatu with sound) 1937: Victoria the Great as Baroness Lehzen 1938: Sixty Glorious Years as Baroness Lehzen 1943: Melody of a Great City 1943: Wild Bird as Jutta Lossen 1945: Kolberg as Sophie Marie von Voß 1951: Maria Theresa 1953: Stars Over Colombo 1953: Anna Louise and Anton
Writer 1915: 1916:
References in popular culture In the 2000 film Shadow of the Vampire, which depicted the production of Nosferatu, Catherine McCormack portrayed Greta Schröder.
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Text of a letter by Greta Schröder from 1911