Alina Levshin (born September 10, 1984) is a German-Ukrainian actress. She moved with her parents from the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

to Germany when she was six.Jörg Thomann
''Sie kann auch anders.''
In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 15 Januar 2012 From 2006 to 2010, she studied acting at the College of Film and Television "Konrad Wolf" in

Potsdam Potsdam () is the capital and, with around 183,000 inhabitants, largest city of the German state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream of B ...

. Levshin was one of the main cast members in

Dominik Graf Dominik Graf (born 6 September 1952) is a German film director. He studied film direction at University of Television and Film Munich, from where he graduated in 1975. While he has directed several theatrically released feature films since the 198 ...

’s television series ''

Im Angesicht des Verbrechens ''Im Angesicht des Verbrechens'' (English title: ''In the Face of Crime'') is a German television series about the Russian mafia in Berlin. It received high critical acclaim, but the viewer figures were disappointing. The 10 episodes of the ser ...

'' who collectively received the

German Television Award The Deutscher Fernsehpreis (''German Television Award'') is an annual German award for television programming, created in 1999 by German television channels Das Erste, ZDF, RTL and Sat.1. It was created to be an equivalent to the Emmy Awards, tho ...

in 2010. She starred in the 2011 German film ''

Combat Girls ''Combat Girls'' (the original title is ''Kriegerin'', the German term for a female warrior) is a 2011 German drama film written and directed by . It had its international premiere at the 2011 São Paulo International Film Festival where Alina Levs ...

'' ''(Kriegerin)'', for which she won the best actress awards at the

Deutscher Filmpreis The German Film Award (), also known as Lola after its prize statuette, is the national film award of Germany. It is presented at an annual ceremony honouring cinematic achievements in the German film industry. Besides being the most important ...

awards and the

São Paulo International Film Festival The São Paulo International Film Festival ( pt, Mostra Internacional de Cinema de São Paulo), also known internationally as Mostra, is an annual film festival held in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. A non-profit event, the festival is organized ...

. She appeared in ''

Generation War ''Generation War'' (german: Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter, links=no, translated as "Our Mothers, our Fathers") is a German World War II TV miniseries in three parts. It was commissioned by public broadcasting organization ZDF, produced by the UFA ...

'' (german: Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter, lit=''Our mothers, our fathers''), a German

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

TV miniseries in 2013 as well as in ''Dunkelstadt'', a TV series of ZDF.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Levshin, Alina Living people Best Actress German Film Award winners 1984 births Actors from Odesa German film actresses German television actresses Soviet emigrants to Germany