Mina Tander (born 4 December 1979) is a German actress. She played
BfV agent Esther Krug on ''
Berlin Station'' from 2016 to 2019.
Biography
Born in Cologne, Tander is the daughter of an
Afghan
Afghan may refer to:
*Something of or related to Afghanistan, a country in Southern-Central Asia
*Afghans, people or citizens of Afghanistan, typically of any ethnicity
** Afghan (ethnonym), the historic term applied strictly to people of the Pas ...
journalist father, who died when she was a child, and a German teacher mother.
She was raised in Cologne with her older sister
Simin Tander.
Tander is married to German film director
Elmar Fischer
Elmar Fischer (6 October 1936 – 19 January 2022) was an Austrian Roman Catholic prelate.
Fischer was born in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, Austria. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1961 for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Feldkirch, Austria. He se ...
. He directed Tander in his 2003 film ''Fremder Freund'' (''Strange Friend''), and in the 2009 episode "Die Kronzeugin" of ''Der Kriminalist'' (''The Criminalist'').
Selected filmography
Accolades
* 2009: Nomination –
German Film Critics Award for Best Actress for ''Wedding Fever in Campobello'' (''Maria, ihm schmeckt's nicht'')
* 2014: Nomination –
Jupiter Award for Best German Actress for ''Buddy''
* 2017: Win – Jupiter Award for Best German Actress for ''Seitenwechsel''
References
External links
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1979 births
German film actresses
German television actresses
Living people
Actresses from Cologne
German people of Afghan descent