Nora Quest was born in 1990 in Bochum, where she lived ̶ except for a two-year stay in London ̶ until her studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart. During her studies she already appeared in various productions at the Wilhelma Theater as well in »Was geschah mit Baby Jane« directed by Christian Weise and in the production »Licht/Hannelore/Cool« (directed by Jan Koslowski) at the Staatstheater Stuttgart. She has been shooting regularly for film and television since 2004 and has appeared in the films »Rote Zora« and »Die wilden Hühner«, among others. At the beginning of the 2013/14 season, she took up her first permanent engagement at the Deutschen Nationaltheater Weimar. Here she worked with directors such as Hasko Weber, Alice Buddeberg, Jan Neumann, Bernhard Mikeska and Robert Schuster. She has been working freelance since 2017. During this time, she has appeared at the Konzert Theater Bern and the Berliner Ensemble, among others. In Heidelberg she can be seen for the first time in the production »Die Guten«.