Amira El Sayed is an Austrian actress and author based in Vienna, Austria. Amira El Sayed was born on the 3 June 1991 in

Innsbruck Innsbruck (; bar, Innschbruck, label=Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian ) is the capital of Tyrol (state), Tyrol and the List of cities and towns in Austria, fifth-largest city in Austria. On the Inn (river), River Inn, at its junction with the ...

, Austria. She is the only child of Erika El Sayed, an Austrian language and history teacher and Adel El Sayed, a university teacher and political scientist from Egypt. Amira was raised bilingual and is a native speaker of both Arabic and German. She spent her early years living in Alexandria, Egypt before she moved back to Innsbruck with her parents. At the age of 16 Amira moved to Vienna where she later studied acting at the renowned

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. Amongst others she was taught by Klaus Maria Brandauer. She left University in the first year to play a part in

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’s ''The Cleopatra Club'', a theatre play directed by Rupert Henning, where she was discovered by her first agent. Her first international film was 2016's '' A Hologram for the King'', starring Tom Hanks and directed by Tom Tykwer. In 2017, she went on to appear in the Swiss television series Wilder ( SRF) and the

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film Der Richter (director Markus Imboden). Her most recent work involves roles in

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in 2018, Deutschland 86'' in 2018, Riviera (TV series) in 2019,

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in 2021 and the HBO MAX Spy/Master in 2023''IMDb: Amira El Sayed''
Retrieved 2022-07-24 Amira El Sayed is also the author of the book, titled ''Klang der Freiheit'' (''The Sound of Freedom'') which was published in 2013 by the Austrian publishing house Letter P.P: Amira El Sayed''
Retrieved 2022-07-24 She currently lives in Vienna, Austria.

Filmography

Publications

* ''Klang der Freiheit

Letter P, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-9503168-4-1

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sayed, Amira Living people Austrian actresses 1991 births Actors from Innsbruck Actresses from Berlin Austrian people of Egyptian descent Austrian women writers