Peri Baumeister (1986) is a German TV and film actress best known in the UK for her role as Lady Gisela in series two and three of ''

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'' (2018) and as Sara in the 2019

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television series '' Skylines'' and the vampire plane horror ''

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'' in 2021.

Career

Peri Baumeister is the daughter of the actor Edwin Noel-Baumeister and the cultural manager Judith Schäfer-Schuller. Her older half-sister

Muriel Baumeister Muriel Baumeister (born January 24, 1972) is a German-Austrian film and television actress. She was born in Salzburg, Austria. Selected filmography * '' Rising to the Bait'' (1992) * ' (1992, TV film) * ' (1995, TV film) * '' Life Is a Bluff'' ( ...

is also an actress. From 2007 to 2011, Peri Baumeister studied acting at the

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(Bavarian Theatre Academy) in

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. During this time she appeared in stage productions of Lars von Trier's ''Dogville'' and ''Manderlay'' under the direction of Jochen Schölch at the Metropol-Theater (Munich). In her third year of study she received the leading role of Grete Trakl in the movie ''Tabu – It is the Soul of a Stranger on Earth'' at the side of

Lars Eidinger Lars Eidinger (; born 21 January 1976) is a German actor. Eidinger started his career at Deutsches Theater in 1997. Before his breakthrough, he played minor roles in German television shows like ''Schloss Einstein'' (2002) and ''Berlin, Berlin' ...

. It was her cinematic debut, and she was awarded the prize for Best Young Actress at the Max Ophüls Film Festival in 2012. Baumeister then starred in Oliver Ziegenbalg's bestselling film ''

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''. For her role in the social drama ' directed by

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, she was nominated Best Supporting Actress at the German Academy of Television Awards. In the Norwegian TV six-parter ''

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'' about Hitler's attempts to develop an atomic bomb, she played the wife of physicist

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. In 2017, Baumeister made the switch to English-speaking audiences, starring in series two and three of ''

'' as Lady Gisela, following this in 2019 with a regular main role in the

television series '' Skylines'' as Sara. In 2021, Baumeister played the protagonist in the

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directed

vampire horror film ''

''.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

External

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Gisela – Peri Baumeister
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