She is most recognised to international audiences as the perky vampire Nora in Dennis Gansel's drama film We Are The Night.

The daughter of a kindergarten teacher and a corporate staff she began to devote herself to music at the age of eleven.

The breakthrough as an actress came in 2005 when Fischer scored the lead role in Jeanette Wagner's Liebeskind [de].

In the two part TV film based on Ulla Hahn's novel The Hidden Word, she slipped into the role of a timid and defiant teenager whose thirst for knowledge in the Rhenish-Catholic working-class family in the 1960s met with resistance.

In addition to her acting career, Fischer is the lead singer and songwriter, of the five-member band Panda, founded in 2004.