- Lives with her husband Walter Giller in Lugano, Switzerland. They announced that they will move to Hamburg to live in a retirement home in 2007.
- Miss Austria 1949 and 1951
- Daughter of Erika Körner and Anton Tiller.
- Has two children, Natascha and Jan-Claudius.
- In the 1970s and 1980s she had fixed theater engagements in Lübeck, Berlin, and ViennaI.
- In 1955, she acted opposite O. W. Fischer in the film Ich suche Dich, based on a play by A. J. Cronin.
- In Lübeck (1976) and in Vienna (1981), she played the lead female role in the Kurt Weill musical Lady in the Dark.
- She made her major-film debut in 1952 in Märchen vom Glück (Good Luck Fairytale).
- In 1997 at the Hamburger Kammerspielen and in guest performances, she played the aging Joan Crawford in the play Besuch bei Joan by Cas Enklaar, which with co-star Andreas Brucker and under the direction of Horst Königstein was filmed for television the following year.
- At the height of her career was considered along with Sophia Loren to be among the most alluring women in European film.
- In mid-March 2008, she and her husband - actor Walter Giller - moved into the Augustinum retirement home in Hamburg.
- Nadja Tiller and her husband Walter Giller jointly received a Bambi for their life's work on 30 November 2006.
- From September to October 2010, Nadja Tiller made guest appearances in the role of the greatest diva of all time in Schorsch Kamerun's production of the play Vor uns die Sintflut at the Thalia Theater Tent in Hamburg's Hafencity.
- She played occasional leading roles and made guest appearances in various television productions.
- In 2014 she received The Radio Play Award of the German Academy of Performing Arts for the radio drama Traumrollen.
- In the 1980s she promoted the Mon Chéri line of pralines produced by Italian manufacturer Ferrero.
- In 1967 and 1968 she appeared in the play Jedermann (Everyman) at the annual Salzburg Festival.
- In 1945 she began her studies at the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar, which she later continued until 1949 at the Musik- und Schauspielakademie. In the same year, she became an ensemble member at the Theater in der Josefstadt.
- She was one of the most popular German-speaking actresses of international films of the 1950s and 1960s.
- In 1999 she was decorated with The Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class, and in 2000 with The Merit Cross on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany (Verdienstkreuz am Bande).
- In 1999 she was arwarded with The Platinum Romy for lifetime achievement.
- Nadja Tiller, daughter of actor Anton Tiller of Vienna and his wife Erika Tiller (1902-1979) (formerly Erika Körner), an opera singer and actress from Danzig, was born in Vienna, Austria, where she attended a Realgymnasium secondary school.
- She appeared in over 70 films, including many international productions. She performed with, among others, O. W. Fischer, Curd Jürgens, Hansjörg Felmy, Mario Adorf, Jean Gabin, Yul Brynner, Robert Mitchum, Rod Steiger, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Jean Marais.
- Until the late 1990s, she appeared in boulevard plays.
- After a long absence from the cinema, she was cast in 2005 by Til Schweiger in his Roadmovie Barfuss and in 2009 by Leander Haußmann in his film comedy Dinosaurier - Gegen uns seht ihr alt aus.
- From January - April 2015, she appeared in the musical My Fair Lady as Mrs. Higgins at the Staatstheater Braunschweig, a role she repeated in the 2015-16 season.
- In 2005 she received The DIVA Award in the category "Lifetime Award (Hall of Fame)" Lifetime Achievement.
- Nadja Tiller married actor Walter Giller in 1956; they had a son (born 1964) and a daughter (born 1959).
- On the film set, she not only found fame, but also her Walter. In 1956 she married the German actor Walter Giller. The two were married for 55 years before he died in 2011 at the age of 84. Both described a lot of tolerance as the secret of their long marriage.
- She could have bathed in the Trevi Fountain ("La Dolce Vita") instead of Anita Ekberg, played alongside Marcello Mastroianni ("La notte") and filmed with Alain Delon ("Rocco and his brothers"). But Tiller rejected all these offers. They could have made her a world star. "Unfortunately, I wasn't smart enough and too stupid and then didn't accept three very famous films," Tiller once said.
- The real biotope of Nadja Tiller was the cinema screen. She was able to embody vamp and grande dame at the same time and thus also attracted the attention of the European industry.
- In 1979 she got The Film Award in Gold for many years of excellent work in the German film industry.
- Her heart's desire was to train as a hairdresser, as she once said: "My grandparents had a hairdressing salon in Gdansk. The first house in town. It was great and I was incredibly impressed. I wanted to learn to be a hairdresser so that I could take over this salon." In the end, the Second World War thwarted her plans.
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