Cosma Shiva Hagen (born May 17, 1981 in Los Angeles, California) is a German actress and the daughter of new wave/punk singer Nina Hagen and musician Ferdinand Karmelk. Her grandmother is actress Eva-Maria Hagen, and her step-grandfather is the East German dissident writer Wolf Biermann. Eva-Maria Hagen was allowed to emigrate to West Germany during the 1970s. Shiva’s unusual name was picked by her mother, who claimed she saw an UFO while pregnant. “Cosma” is a reference to Cosmos, and “Shiva” is a reference to the Hindu God Shiva.