Esther Reginbogin was born in 1975 in Gera, Germany. She studied English, French and Comparative Literature at the University of East Anglia in Norwich and the Université Stendhal in Grenoble. She completed her Master of Arts in Drama and Theatre Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. After her studies, she spent a year in Italy where she worked as a German language teacher. During that time, she began to work as a freelance translator. In recent years, she has mostly translated non-fiction texts and screenplays from English and French into German. She has now turned her attention to becoming an author. Her focus lies on the history of theatre and cinema in France, Great Britain and the United States between the beginning of the twentieth century and the 1960s, and especially on character actors from these countries and that time and their respective styles of acting.