Christiane Seidel (born April 3, 1988) is a German-Danish-American actress, having had roles in ''

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'' (2011-2014), ''

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'' (2014), '' The Hollow'' (2016), '' Godless'' (2017), ''

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'' and ''

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'' (2019), and ''

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'' in 2022.

Early life

Seidel was born in Wichita Falls,

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, to a Danish mother and a German father, who was serving in the navy. She also grew up in Denmark and

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. Her first experience of acting came in a school nativity play. She followed her interest in acting by attending theatre camps, performing ''

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'' in German, and attended for a semester at film school in

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, South Africa. Seidel studied Media Management in Europe, before returning to the US to study at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York, to pursue her acting career.

Career

Seidel's US television debut was as a Guest Star on NBC Universal's police drama '' Law & Order: Special Victims Units season 12 premiere episode in 2010. She starred as FBI Agent Sarah DeSoto in the noir-feature film, '' The Hollow'' in 2015, and as Sybille Ranisch in ''

'' in 2014,. Seidel starred as Sigrid Mueller, the Norwegian wife to rogue Treasury Agent Nelson Van Alden ( Michael Shannon) in the

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TV drama series ''

'' from season 2 to

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(2012 – 2015). As of 2015, Seidel is a member of the Scandinavian American Theater Company, a theater company which has introduced several Scandinavian plays to the United States. In 2017, Seidel played Martha, a mysterious, free-spirited German stranger, in the Netflix mini-series '' Godless'', starring alongside

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and

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. In 2019, Seidel played the role of Hannah, mistress of Bob Fosse (

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) in FX television series ''

''. In 2020, she played Helen Deardorff in the Scott Frank directed '' The Queen's Gambit'' alongside

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. In 2022, Seidel stars in the

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directed thriller movie ''

'', in a cast which included

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and

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Personal life

Seidel was pregnant during the filming of '' Godless'' in 2017 and is mother of twin boys.

Filmography

Television

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Seidel, Christiane Living people 21st-century American actresses Actresses from Texas Danish television actresses German television actresses Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute alumni People from Wichita Falls, Texas German people of Danish descent Danish people of German descent 1988 births