Deleila Piasko

{{short description|Swiss actress}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1991|5|2|df=y}}

| birth_place = Zürich, Switzerland

| occupation = Actress

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| television = Transatlantic

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Deleila Piasko (born 2 May 1991) is a Swiss actress.

Early life

Piasko was born into a Jewish family on 2 May 1991.{{Cite web|url=https://www.heyalma.com/18-things-to-know-about-jewish-actress-deleila-piasko/|title=18 Things to Know About Jewish Actress Deleila Piasko|date=14 April 2023|access-date=20 January 2024|publisher=Hey Alma}} From Zürich, the eldest of three children born to a physicist father and dancer mother. She moved to Berlin aged 20 where she attended the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts.{{Cite web|url=https://www.schweizer-illustrierte.ch/people/swiss-stars/hauptrolle-in-der-neuen-netflix-serie-transatlantic-mit-deleila-piasko-in-berlin-590792|title= Woman from Zurich gets the leading role in the "Netflix" series|accessdate=April 11, 2023|website=Schweizer-illustrietre.ch}}

Career

=Stage=

After graduating from Berlin's Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin she had stage roles in Zürich, Frankfurt and Dresden. In 2019, she joined the Burgtheater in Vienna under director Martin Kušej.{{Cite web|first=Barbara|last=Rider|title= This is the Swiss Penélope Cruz|website=Kurier.At|url=https://kurier.at/freizeit/die-schweizer-penelope-cruz/400668452|date=July 11, 2019|accessdate=April 11, 2023}} In November 2023, it was announced that she would take on the role of Buhlschaft in Jedermann at the 2024 Salzburg Festival alongside Philipp Hochmair.{{cite web| title= Deleila Piasko is the new lover |website=ORF.at|date=November 17, 2023| accessdate=20 December 2023|url=https://salzburg.orf.at/stories/3232858/}}

=Film and television=

In 2018 she appeared in an adaptation of the Charlotte Link novel Im Tal des Fuchses, produced by Degeto Film.{{Cite web|url=https://www.presseportal.de/pm/6694/4012921|website=Pressportal.de|title= The first: "Charlotte Link - Im Tal des Fuchses" (AT): End of shooting for another bestseller adaptation of the ARD Degeto series With Benjamin Sadler, Ludwig Trepte, Lisa Bitter, Katharina Schüttler and others|date=July 19, 2018|accessdate=April 11, 2023}} Piasko appears in a 2021 adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel Confessions of Felix Krull entitled Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull, in which she played Zouzou Kuckuck.{{Cite web|url=https://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/kultur/kino/felix-krull-im-kino-reichlich-stoff-fuer-bekenntnisse-art-753548|website=Abendzeitung-muenchen.de|title= Felix Krull in the cinema: Plenty of material for confessions|accessdate=April 11, 2023|date=September 1, 2021|first=Dirk|last=Heiserer}} She also appears in Leander Haußmann ensemble piece Stasi.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ufa.de/presse/drehschluss-fuer-stasikomoedie|title=End of shooting for the new Leander Haussmann Stasi comedy|date=November 8, 2019|accessdate=April 11, 2023|website=ufa.de}}

Piasko plays the based on real-life character Lisa Fittko in the Netflix French resistance series Transatlantic.{{cite web|accessdate=April 11, 2023|date=April 7, 2023|first=Alan|last=Sepinwall|title=Transatlantic’: The Daring Rescue of Jews From Nazi-Occupied France|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/transatlantic-netflix-european-rescue-committee-jews-nazis-world-war-2-holocaust-mary-jayne-gold-varian-fry-1234705148|website=Rolling Stone}}{{Cite web|first= Nina|last=Kobelt|url=https://www.swissinfo.ch/ger/netflix-serie--transatlantic--erinnert-an-krieg-und-widerstand/48421744|website=Swissinfo.ch|accessdate=April 11, 2023|title= Netflix series "Transatlantic" is reminiscent of war and resistance|date=April 6, 2023}} Her performance was singled out by Daniel Fienberg in The Hollywood Reporter for bringing life to her character.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-reviews/transatlantic-review-netflix-world-war-ii-rescue-series-1235367163|website=Hollywood Reporter|title= Transatlantic' Review: Netflix's Glossy but Superficial Account of a World War II Rescue Network|first=Daniel|last=Fienberg|date=April 5, 2023|accessdate=April 11, 2023}} In 2023, she had the lead role in the six-part German-language series Der Schatten.{{cite web|url=https://m.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/serien/die-serie-der-schatten-kommt-an-ihre-romanvorlage-nicht-heran-18955937.html|website=Faz.net|accessdate=27 October 2023|title= Cold is more than just an outside temperature|first=Matthias|last=Hannemann|date=June 12, 2023}} That year she started filming a six-part political thriller called Turmschatten for Paramount+.{{cite web|url=https://www.merkur.de/lokales/garmisch-partenkirchen/garmisch-partenkirchen-ort28711/lauterbach-in-turmschatten-von-garmisch-partenkirchner-autor-92521281.html|website=Merkur.de|accessdate=27 October 2023|title= “Tower Shadow” with ideal cast: Heiner Lauterbach plays the leading role in the political thriller|date=September 15, 2023|first=Tanja|last= Brinkmann}} She was also cast in the title role in Lili from Thomas Imbach, an adaptation of Fräulein Else by Arthur Schnitzler, in which she will be appearing alongside Milan Peschel.{{cite web|title= “Lili”: Historical drama implemented with futuristic production technology|website=srgd.ch|date=November 1, 2023|accessdate=20 December 2023|url=https://www.srgd.ch/de/aktuelles/news/2023/11/01/lili-historisches-drama-mit-futuristischer-produktionstechnik-umgesetzt/}}

Partial filmography

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Year

! Title

! Role

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2020

| Im Tal des Fuchses

|Debbie Lee

|TV movie

2021

| Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull

|Zouzou Kuckuck

|

2022

| Stasikomödie

|Natalie

|Film

2023

| Transatlantic

|Lisa Fittko

|7 episodes

2023

| Der Schatten

| Norah Richter

| 6 episodes

2024

|Turmschatten

|Shalhevet Ehrenberg

|

TBA

|Lili

|Lili

|

References

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