Rosabell Laurenti Sellers

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Rosabell Laurenti Sellers
Born (1996-03-27) March 27, 1996 (age 28)
Naples, Italy
Occupation Actress
Years active 2004–present

Rosabell Laurenti Sellers (born March 27, 1996)[1] is an Italian-American actress. She is best known for her role as Tyene Sand in HBO series Game of Thrones.

Early life

Sellers was born in Naples before moving to Santa Monica, California. She grew up in New York City, New York, before moving to Rome.[2]

Career

Sellers made her debut in the theater in 2004 at the age of eight, when she and her brother were assigned to the part of the children of Medea in the production of the theater company La Mama. After staging in New York and a tour of the same show in Poland and Austria, she moved briefly to Rome that same year with her family.[1]

After she arrived in Italy, she began to take part in TV and film productions. In 2006 she participated in the mini-series directed by Maurizio Ponzi's E poi c'è Filippo, the years following in L'amore e la guerra, the television series Medicina generale and the television movie Fuga per la libertà - L'aviatore, the miniseries Coco Chanel and the film Mi Ricordo Anna Frank in the lead role.[1] In 2009, in Fausto Brizzi's Ex, while the following year in the miniseries Paura di amare.[1]

In 2010, Sellers played the daughter of Kathryn Bolkovac (Rachel Weisz) in Larysa Kondracki's The Whistleblower.[1] In 2012, she took part in the TV series Una grande famiglia[3] and arrived on Rai 2 in the series Mia and Me, alternating sequences in live action scenes created in computer graphics.[4] In June 2012 she took a part in Edoardo Leo's Buongiorno papà, alongside Raoul Bova.[5][6] Meanwhile, at the 69th Venice International Film Festival, she was presented in Ivano De Matteo's Balancing Act [7] and in Passione sinistra, alongside Alessandro Preziosi and Valentina Lodovini, loosely based on the 2008 novel by Chiara Gamberale.[8]

In 2015, she joined the cast of the HBO series Game of Thrones in Season 5 as Tyene Sand.[9]

Sellers is currently studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.[10]

Philanthropy

Sellers founded the Young Actors for Humanitarian Involvement, to get teen Italian talents involved in charities such as ActionAid and Smile Again. She also serves meals at Rome's Comunità di Sant'Egidio soup kitchen.[11]

Filmography

Cinema

Television

  • A Wheel In Time, by Mary Sellers – TV Movie (1999)
  • E poi c'è Filippo, by Maurizio Ponzi – TV Miniseries (2006)
  • L'amore e la guerra, by Giacomo Campiotti – TV Miniseries(2007)
  • Fuga per la libertà - L'aviatore, by Carlo Carlei – TV Movie (2008)
  • Coco Chanel, by Christian Duguay – TV Miniseries (2008)
  • Medicina generale – TV Miniseries (2009)
  • Mi ricordo Anna Frank, by Alberto Negrin – TV Movie (2009)
  • Paura di amare, by Vincenzo Terracciano – TV Miniseries (2010)
  • Agata e Ulisse, by Maurizio Nichetti – TV Movie (2011)
  • Cenerentola, by Christian Duguay – TV Miniseries (2011)
  • Mia and Me Mia – TV Series (2011–present)
  • Una grande famiglia – TV Miniseries (2012)
  • Game of Thrones Tyene Sand - TV Series (2015–present)

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