Lea van Acken

Lea van Acken
Lea van Acken at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2014
Born	(1999-02-20) 20 February 1999 (age 26) Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany [1]
Nationality	German
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2011–present

Lea van Acken (born 20 February 1999) ^[2] is a German actress.

Career

Lea van Acken had her first appearance on stage at the Karl May Festival in Bad Segeberg in 2011. She was the leading actress in the 2014 drama film Stations of the Cross directed by Dietrich Brüggemann. In this film, which was awarded with a Silver Bear at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival, she played a Catholic girl in a religiously fanatic family. One year later, she played a minor role in the fifth season of the series Homeland , which was set in Germany. She played Holocaust victim Anne Frank in the 2016 German production Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank . Van Acken also appears in the German Netflix series Dark as Silja Tiedemann.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2014	Stations of the Cross	Maria
2015	Heil  [ de ]	Teenager
2016	Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank	Anne Frank
2016	Sag mir nichts  [ de ]	Susanna	TV movie
2016	Spreewaldkrimi - Spiel mit dem Tod	Svenja Heinze	TV movie
2017	Bibi & Tina: Perfect Pandemonium  [ de ]	Adea/Alladin
2017	Stormwind 3	Sam
2017	Fack ju Göhte 3	Amrei
2018	Slender Man	Michelle
2019	Abikalypse	Hannah
2022	Das Privileg	Lena

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2015	Homeland	Ayla	Episode: "The Tradition of Hospitality"
2017–2019	Dark	Silja Tiedemann	8 episodes
2020	Sløborn	Ella	7 episodes

References

1. "Lea van Acken". filmportal.de. 2018. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
2. Albat, Friederike (February 2016). "Mehr Spielraum" (PDF). Next Generation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 February 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2017.

External links

• Profile at the agency Players
• Lea van Acken at IMDb