Amira El Sayed

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Amira El Sayed
Born (1991-06-03) June 3, 1991 (age 31)
Innsbruck, Austria
OccupationActress
Years active2009–present

Amira El Sayed is an Austrian actress and author based in Vienna, Austria. [1]

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Amira El Sayed was born on the 3 June 1991 in Innsbruck, Austria. [2] She is the only child of Erika El Sayed, an Austrian language and history teacher and Adel El Sayed, a university teacher and political scientist from Egypt. Amira was raised bilingual and is a native speaker of both Arabic and German. She spent her early years living in Alexandria, Egypt before she moved back to Innsbruck with her parents. [3]

At the age of 16 Amira moved to Vienna where she later studied acting at the renowned Max Reinhardt Seminar. [4] Amongst others she was taught by Klaus Maria Brandauer. She left University in the first year to play a part in Paul Schrader’s The Cleopatra Club, a theatre play directed by Rupert Henning, [5] where she was discovered by her first agent.

Her first international film was 2016's A Hologram for the King , starring Tom Hanks [6] and directed by Tom Tykwer. In 2017, she went on to appear in the Swiss television series Wilder (SRF) and the Norddeutscher Rundfunk film Der Richter (director Markus Imboden). Her most recent work involves roles in Ransom in 2018, Deutschland 86 in 2018, Riviera (TV series) in 2019, Hanna (TV series) in 2021 and the HBO MAX Spy/Master in 2023 [7]

Amira El Sayed is also the author of the book, titled Klang der Freiheit (The Sound of Freedom) which was published in 2013 by the Austrian publishing house Letter P. [8] She currently lives in Vienna, Austria. [8]

Filmography

YearTitleRole
2013Alles Schwindel
2013Die Verbotene FrauDaima
2013Paul Kemp – Alles kein ProblemFrauke
2013Paul Kemp – Alles kein ProblemFrauke
2014Schleierhaft (short)Mother
2015 Vier Frauen und ein Todesfall Nasreen Naguib
2015Brittany MysteryLilou Breval
2015Großstadtrevier
2016Hotel Rock’n’RollGlory
2016 A Hologram for the King Maha
2016Vienna Crime SquadLeyla Allawi
2017Die letzte Spur
2017Der Richter
2017Wilder (TV series)Amina-Al-Baroudi
2018Das Institut – Oase des Scheiterns
2018 Ransom Sofia Cardenas
2018 Deutschland 86 Samira
2019 Riviera (TV series) Salma
2021 Hanna (TV series) Anne
2022Spy/Master (HBO)Safiya (main cast)

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