Greta Schröder (27 June 1892 – 8 June 1980) was a German actress. She is best known for the role of Thomas Hutter's wife and Count Orlok's victim 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: Die Insel der Seligen
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: Es leuchtet meine Liebe
1923: Brüder
1923: Paganini as Antonia Paganini
1930: Die zwölfte Stunde - Eine Nacht des Grauens (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: Zucker und Zimt
1916: Das Phantom der Oper
References in popular culture
In the 2000 film Shadow of the Vampire, which depicted the production of Nosferatu, Catherine McCormack portrayed Greta Schröder.