Lea van Acken (born 20 February 1999) is a German actress.

Career

Lea van Acken had her first appearance on stage at the

Karl May Festival in Bad Segeberg The 'Karl May Festival' (german: link=no, Karl-May-Spiele Bad Segeberg,') is a theatre festival in Bad Segeberg Bad Segeberg (; Low German: Sebarg) is a German town of 16,000 inhabitants, located in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, capital of t ...

in 2011. She was the leading actress in the 2014 drama film ''

Stations of the Cross The Stations of the Cross or the Way of the Cross, also known as the Way of Sorrows or the Via Crucis, refers to a series of images depicting Jesus Christ on the day of Crucifixion of Jesus, his crucifixion and accompanying prayers. The station ...

'' directed by

Dietrich Brüggemann Dietrich Brüggemann (born 23 February 1976) is a German film director screenwriter and musician. He collaborates closely with his sister Anna Brüggemann on several screenplays for his films. They were awarded the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay ...

. In this film, which was awarded with a

Silver Bear The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festi ...

at the

64th Berlin International Film Festival The 64th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 6 to 16 February 2014. Wes Anderson's film ''The Grand Budapest Hotel'' opened the festival. British film director Ken Loach was presented with the Honorary Golden Bear. The Golden ...

, she played a Catholic girl in a religiously fanatic family. One year later, she played a minor role in the fifth season of the series ''

Homeland A homeland is a place where a cultural, national, or racial identity has formed. The definition can also mean simply one's country of birth. When used as a proper noun, the Homeland, as well as its equivalents in other languages, often has ethni ...

'', which was set in Germany. She played

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

victim

Anne Frank Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (, ; 12 June 1929 – )Research by The Anne Frank House in 2015 revealed that Frank may have died in February 1945 rather than in March, as Dutch authorities had long assumed"New research sheds new light on Anne Fra ...

in the 2016 German production ''

Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank ''Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank'' (also known as ''Anne Frank's diary'') is a 2016 German drama film directed by German filmmaker Hans Steinbichler and written by Fred Breinersdorfer. It stars Lea van Acken as Anne Frank, the titular character, Mart ...

''. Van Acken also appears in the German Netflix series ''

Dark Darkness, the direct opposite of lightness, is defined as a lack of illumination, an absence of visible light, or a surface that absorbs light, such as black or brown. Human vision is unable to distinguish colors in conditions of very low lum ...

'' as Silja Tiedemann.

Filmography

References

External links

Profile at the agency Players
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Acken, Lea van 1999 births Living people German child actresses German film actresses 21st-century German actresses Actors from Lübeck