Seyneb Saleh

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Seyneb Saleh
Born
Seyneb Nesha Saleh

(1987-12-25) 25 December 1987 (age 36)
NationalityGerman
Alma mater Berlin University of the Arts
OccupationActress
Years active2010–present
Height1.67 m (5 ft 5+12 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 .

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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

YearTitleRoleDirectorNotes
2010 The Red Room  [ de ]Sibil Rudolf Thome
2012 Offroad  [ de ]Özlem Elmar Fischer  [ de ]
2014For NothingBlancheStephan Geene
The Lies of the Victors  [ de ]Mira Christoph Hochhäusler
2017NedaNedaAfagh IrandoostShort film
2018 Mute Naadirah Duncan Jones
2019HerzjagenAnikaElisabeth ScharangTV movie
Golden TwentiesTamaraSofie Kluge
2021ToubabYaraFlorian Dietrich

Theater

YearTitleRoleDirector
2012 Clavigo MarieAlexandra Liedtke
Elfriede Jellinek FaustinPhilip Jenkins
2013 Dennis Kelly HelenLina Hölscher
Yael Renan and the ensemble: No Man's LandLeyla Yael Renan
2014 The Misunderstanding MariaNikolaus Habjan
2015 Vieux Carré Jane SparksSebastian Schug
The ChangelingNikolaus Habjan
2016 Brighton Beach Memoirs NoraSarantos Zervoulakos
ship of fools Lizzi Spöckenkieker Dušan David Pařízek
2017 Romeo and Juliet JulietSebastian Schug
The Decalogue: The Ten CommandmentsAnka / Majka / Ola / ZofiaStephan Kimmig

Television

YearTitleRoleNetworkNotes
2013Verbrechen nach Ferdinand von SchirachNaila
2018 Deutschland 86 Aya Amazon Prime / Sundance TV 2 episodes
Dogs of Berlin Rafika Masaad Netflix 6 episodes
2019SOKO StuttgartSamira Akar ZDF 1 episode
2020 Over Christmas Karina Netflix 3 episodes
Letzter WilleNayer Ziaar V Film 1 episode
2021Jenseits der SpreeKay Freund ZDF 4 episodes
DenglerEzra Malik1 episode

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References

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