Seyneb Saleh

Seyneb Saleh
Born	Seyneb Nesha Saleh (1987-12-25) 25 December 1987 (age 37) Aalen, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
Alma mater	Berlin University of the Arts
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2010–present
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in)

Seyneb Nesha Saleh (born 25 December 1987) is a German actress. She is best known for her role as Naadirah in the 2018 Netflix film Mute .

Early life and education

Seyneb Nesha Saleh was born on 25 December 1987 in Aalen, Baden-Württemberg. She is a daughter of a German mother and an Iraqi father. Apart from two years in Casablanca, where she attended an American school, she was mainly raised in Germany. ^{[1] [2]} Saleh lives in Berlin.

She studied acting from 2008 to 2012 at the Berlin University of the Arts and received a scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes in 2010. ^[3]

Career

After gaining a leading role in The Red Room  [ de ] by Rudolf Thome she appeared in Offroad  [ de ], where she played alongside Nora Tschirner and Elyas M'Barek. 2012 she joined the ensemble at the playhouse in Graz, Austria. Apart from small performances on screen in 2014 in For Nothing and The Lies of the Victors  [ de ], she mainly performed on stage.

2015 she transitioned to the Volkstheater Vienna, where she was a member of the acting ensemble and appeared until 2018. During this period she worked with acclaimed theater directors such as Yael Renan, Dušan David Pařízek and Stephan Kimmig. She also repeatedly worked with the puppeteer and director Nikolaus Habjan, who has taught her puppeteering. In his shows, she hence performed as an actress as well as a puppeteer. ^[4]

In 2016 Saleh landed her first English-language role in Duncan Jones' Mute . In the neo-noir science fiction film she played the mysterious girlfriend Naadirah of a mute bartender played by Alexander Skarsgård. The Netflix production was released in February 2018.

2018 She further appeared in Deutschland 86 in an Arabic-speaking role and in the German Netflix production Dogs of Berlin . 2022 in the Sky series she takes the role of a German officer in “Munich Games” trying to foil a potential terrorist attack on the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes and coaches. Her situation is complicated by her affair with her Arabic-speaking informant.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
2010	The Red Room  [ de ]	Sibil	Rudolf Thome
2012	Offroad  [ de ]	Özlem	Elmar Fischer  [ de ]
2014	For Nothing	Blanche	Stephan Geene
	The Lies of the Victors  [ de ]	Mira	Christoph Hochhäusler
2017	Neda	Neda	Afagh Irandoost	Short film
2018	Mute	Naadirah	Duncan Jones
2019	Herzjagen	Anika	Elisabeth Scharang	TV movie
	Golden Twenties	Tamara	Sofie Kluge
2021	Toubab	Yara	Florian Dietrich

Theater

Year	Title	Role	Director
2012	Clavigo	Marie	Alexandra Liedtke
	Elfriede Jellinek	Faustin	Philip Jenkins
2013	Dennis Kelly	Helen	Lina Hölscher
	Yael Renan and the ensemble: No Man's Land	Leyla	Yael Renan
2014	The Misunderstanding	Maria	Nikolaus Habjan
2015	Vieux Carré	Jane Sparks	Sebastian Schug
	The Changeling		Nikolaus Habjan
2016	Brighton Beach Memoirs	Nora	Sarantos Zervoulakos
	ship of fools	Lizzi Spöckenkieker	Dušan David Pařízek
2017	Romeo and Juliet	Juliet	Sebastian Schug
	The Decalogue: The Ten Commandments	Anka / Majka / Ola / Zofia	Stephan Kimmig

Television

Year	Title	Role	Network	Notes
2013	Verbrechen nach Ferdinand von Schirach	Naila
2018	Deutschland 86	Aya	Amazon Prime / Sundance TV	2 episodes
	Dogs of Berlin	Rafika Masaad	Netflix	6 episodes
2019	SOKO Stuttgart	Samira Akar	ZDF	1 episode
2020	Over Christmas	Karina	Netflix	3 episodes
	Letzter Wille	Nayer Ziaar	V Film	1 episode
2021	Jenseits der Spree	Kay Freund	ZDF	4 episodes
	Dengler	Ezra Malik		1 episode

References

1. Petsch, Barbara (24 August 2016). "Seyneb Saleh: "In sich zuhause sein ist wichtig"". Die Presse (in German). Retrieved 27 February 2018.
2. ""Mute": Eine Volkstheater-Schauspielerin erobert Netflix". Die Presse (in German). 28 February 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
3. "Seyneb Saleh | AGENTUR SCHNEIDER BERLIN". agentur-schneider-berlin.de. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
4. "Neu am Volkstheater: Seyneb Saleh". Mottingers-Meinung.at (in German). 21 October 2015. Retrieved 6 December 2018.

External links

• Seyneb Saleh at IMDb
• German Agency
• Independent Talent