Peri Baumeister

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Peri Baumeister
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Peri Baumeister, 2019
Born1986 (age 3839)
Berlin, Germany
OccupationActress
Years active2006–present

Peri Baumeister (born 1986) is a German TV and film actress best known in the UK for her role as Lady Gisela in series two and three of The Last Kingdom (2018) and as Sara in the 2019 Netflix television series Skylines and the vampire plane horror movie Blood Red Sky in 2021.

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Career

Peri Baumeister is the daughter of the actor Edwin Noel-Baumeister and the cultural manager Judith Schäfer-Schuller. Her older half-sister Muriel Baumeister is also an actress. From 2007 to 2011, Peri Baumeister studied acting at the August Everding Prinzregententheater (Bavarian Theatre Academy) in Munich. During this time she appeared in stage productions of Lars von Trier's Dogville and Manderlay under the direction of Jochen Schölch at the Metropol-Theater (Munich). In her third year of study she received the leading role of Grete Trakl in the movie Tabu – It is the Soul of a Stranger on Earth at the side of Lars Eidinger. It was her cinematic debut, and she was awarded the prize for Best Young Actress at the Max Ophüls Film Festival in 2012. [1] Baumeister then starred in Oliver Ziegenbalg's bestselling film Russian Disco . [2] For her role in the social drama A Faithful Husband  [ de ] directed by Hermine Huntgeburth, she was nominated Best Supporting Actress at the German Academy of Television Awards. In the Norwegian TV six-parter The Heavy Water War about Hitler's attempts to develop an atomic bomb, she played the wife of physicist Werner Heisenberg. [3]

In 2017, Baumeister made the switch to English-speaking audiences, starring in series two and three of The Last Kingdom as Lady Gisela, following this in 2019 with a regular main role in the Netflix television series Skylines as Sara. [4]

In 2021, Baumeister played the protagonist in the Peter Thorwarth directed Netflix vampire horror film Blood Red Sky . [5]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2011Tabu: The Soul Is a Stranger on EarthGrete / Sister
2012 Russian Disco Olga
2013 Wetlands Schwester Valerie
2014 Irre sind männlich (en.Therapy Crashers)Bernadette [5]
A Faithful Husband  [ de ]NinaTV film
2016 Unsere Zeit ist jetzt (English: Our Time is Now)Vanessa
2018 Mack the Knife: Brecht's Threepenny Film  [ de ] Elisabeth Hauptmann
2019PéitrussLaraLuxembourgish–Dutch co-production
2021 Blood Red Sky NadjaBritish–German co-production
2024 Winners Miss Abbel

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2012 Tatort Roswitha KranzEpisode: "Borowski und der stille Gast"
2015 The Heavy Water War Elisabeth HeisenbergMain cast (miniseries) [5]
Der Kriminalist Carolin NatersEpisode: "Treu bis in den Tod"
Blochin: Die Lebenden und die Toten (The Living and the Dead)Freddy GeisslerEpisode: "2. Kapitel"
2016 Ein starkes Team Nathalie BrombachEpisode: "Nathalie"
Die Chefin Jessica KempfEpisode: "Abrechnung"
2018 The Last Kingdom Lady GiselaMain cast (Season 2–3) [5]
2019 Skylines Sara6 episodes
2022NeulandMarie Klein6 episodes
2023Schlafende HundeLenni Atlas6 episodes
2024The SignalPaula4 episodes [6]

Awards and nominations

YearCategoryAwardFilmResult
2014Best Supporting ActressGerman Television Academy AwardA Faithful HusbandNominated
2015Best German ActressAwardTherapy CrashersNominated

References

  1. "Peri Baumeister – filmportal.de". Filmportal.de. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  2. "Mediathek Babelsberg: Dreharbeiten zu Russendisko in Potsdam". PNN.de. 3 December 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  3. "Peri Baumeister". trakt.tv. 2020.
  4. "Skylines". thefutoncritic.com. 27 September 2019.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Peri Baumeister". amazon.com. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  6. Ostby, Ingrid (14 March 2024). "Everything You Need to Know About The Signal — and How It Ends". Netflix . Retrieved 14 March 2024.

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