Seyneb Saleh
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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.{{cite web|url=https://diepresse.com/home/kultur/news/5074247/Seyneb-Saleh_In-sich-zuhause-sein-ist-wichtig|title=Seyneb Saleh: "In sich zuhause sein ist wichtig"|last1=Petsch|first1=Barbara|date=24 August 2016|website=Die Presse|language=German|accessdate=27 February 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://diepresse.com/home/kultur/film/5379381/Mute_Eine-VolkstheaterSchauspielerin-erobert-Netflix|title="Mute": Eine Volkstheater-Schauspielerin erobert Netflix|date=2018-02-28|website=Die Presse|language=de|access-date=2018-12-06}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://agentur-schneider-berlin.de/seyneb-saleh|title=Seyneb Saleh {{!}} AGENTUR SCHNEIDER BERLIN|website=agentur-schneider-berlin.de|access-date=2018-12-06}}
Career
After gaining a leading role in {{ill|The Red Room (2010 film)|de|3=Das rote Zimmer (2010)|lt=The Red Room}} by Rudolf Thome she appeared in {{Ill|Offroad (film)|de|3=Offroad (Film)|lt=Offroad}}, 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 {{Ill|The Lies of the Victors|de|Die Lügen der Sieger}}, 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mottingers-meinung.at/?p=15526|title=Neu am Volkstheater: Seyneb Saleh|date=2015-10-21|website=Mottingers-Meinung.at|language=de-DE|access-date=2018-12-06}}
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 =
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| scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Role ! scope="col" | Director ! scope="col" | Notes |
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| 2010
| {{ill|The Red Room (2010 film)|de|3=Das rote Zimmer (2010)|lt=The Red Room}} | Sibil | |
| 2012
| {{Ill|Offroad (film)|de|3=Offroad (Film)|lt=Offroad}} | Özlem | {{Ill|Elmar Fischer (director)|de|3=Elmar Fischer (Regisseur)|lt=Elmar Fischer}} | |
| rowspan="2" | 2014
| For Nothing | Blanche | Stephan Geene | |
| {{Ill|The Lies of the Victors|de|Die Lügen der Sieger}}
| Mira | |
| 2017
| Neda | Neda | Afagh Irandoost | Short film |
| 2018
| Mute | Naadirah | |
| rowspan="2" | 2019
| Herzjagen | Anika | Elisabeth Scharang | TV movie |
| Golden Twenties
| Tamara | Sofie Kluge | |
| 2021
| Toubab | Yara | Florian Dietrich | |
= Theater =
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" |
| scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Role ! scope="col" | Director |
|---|
| rowspan="2" | 2012
| Clavigo | Marie | Alexandra Liedtke |
| Elfriede Jellinek
| Faustin | Philip Jenkins |
| rowspan="2" | 2013
| Helen | Lina Hölscher |
| Yael Renan and the ensemble: No Man's Land
| Leyla |
| 2014
| Maria | Nikolaus Habjan |
| rowspan="2" | 2015
| Jane Sparks | Sebastian Schug |
| The Changeling
| | Nikolaus Habjan |
| rowspan="2" | 2016
| Nora | Sarantos Zervoulakos |
| ship of fools
| Lizzi Spöckenkieker |
| rowspan="2" | 2017
| Juliet | Sebastian Schug |
| The Decalogue: The Ten Commandments
| Anka / Majka / Ola / Zofia | Stephan Kimmig |
= Television =
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" |
| scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Role ! scope="col" | Network ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 2013
| Verbrechen nach Ferdinand von Schirach | Naila | | |
| rowspan="2" | 2018
| Aya | 2 episodes |
| Dogs of Berlin
| Rafika Masaad | Netflix | 6 episodes |
| 2019
| SOKO Stuttgart | Samira Akar | ZDF | 1 episode |
| rowspan="2" | 2020
| Karina | Netflix | 3 episodes |
| Letzter Wille
| Nayer Ziaar | V Film | 1 episode |
| rowspan="2" | 2021
| Jenseits der Spree | Kay Freund | rowspan="2" | ZDF | 4 episodes |
| Dengler
| Ezra Malik | 1 episode |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|4262840}}
- [http://agentur-schneider-berlin.de/seyneb-saleh German Agency]
- [https://www.independenttalent.com/actors/seyneb-saleh/ Independent Talent]
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Category:Actresses from Baden-Württemberg