Seyneb Saleh
| Seyneb Saleh | |
|---|---|
| Born | Seyneb Nesha Saleh 25 December 1987 Aalen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2010–present |
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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.
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Biography
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 Das rote Zimmer by Rudolf Thome she appeared in 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 The Lies of the Victors, 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 got 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.
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Das rote Zimmer | Sibil | Rudolf Thome | |
| 2012 | Offroad | Özlem | Elmar Fischer | |
| 2014 | Umsonst | Blanche | Stephan Geene | |
| Die Lügen der Sieger | 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 |
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