Seyneb Nesha Saleh (born 25 December 1987) is a German

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. She is best known for her role as Naadirah in the 2018 Netflix film ''

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''.

Biography

Seyneb Nesha Saleh was born on 25 December 1987 in

Aalen Aalen () is a former Free Imperial City located in the eastern part of the German state of Baden-Württemberg, about east of Stuttgart and north of Ulm. It is the seat of the Ostalbkreis district and is its largest town. It is also the large ...

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. She is a daughter of a German mother and an Iraqi father. Apart from two years in

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, where she attended an American school, she was mainly raised in Germany. Saleh lives in Berlin. She studied acting from 2008 to 2012 at the

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and received a scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation ''

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'' in 2010.

Career

After gaining a leading role in ' by Rudolf Thome she appeared in ', where she played alongside

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and Elyas M'Barek. 2012 she joined the ensemble at the playhouse in

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. Apart from small performances on screen in 2014 in ''For Nothing'' and ', she mainly performed on stage. 2015 she transitioned to the Volkstheater Vienna, where she was a member of the acting ensemble and appeared until 2018. During this period she worked with acclaimed theater directors such as Yael Renan, Dušan David Pařízek and Stephan Kimmig. She also repeatedly worked with the

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and director

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, who has taught her puppeteering. In his shows she hence performed as an actress as well as a puppeteer. In 2016 Saleh landed her first English-language role in Duncan Jones' ''

''. In the neo-noir

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she played the mysterious girlfriend ''Naadirah'' of a mute bartender played by Alexander Skarsgård. The

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production got released in February 2018. 2018 She further appeared in ''

Deutschland 86 ''Deutschland 86'' () is a 2018 German television series starring Jonas Nay as an agent of East Germany in 1986, in relation to the Angolan Civil War. It is a sequel to the 2015 series ''Deutschland 83'' and precedes the 2020 series ''Deutschl ...

'' in an Arabic-speaking role and in the German Netflix production '' Dogs of Berlin''. 2022 in the Sky series she takes the role of a German officer in “Munich Games” trying to foil a potential terrorist attack on the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes and coaches.Her situation is complicated by her affair with her Arabic speaking informant.

Filmography

Film

Theater

Television

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Saleh, Seyneb Living people Actors from Baden-Württemberg German actresses 1987 births People from Aalen German people of Iraqi descent