Bio

I always wanted to be an actress. I announced that long before I could read or write.

Dressing up was one of my favorite childhood pastimes. I started to discover the passion that still drives me today: Sinking into a role, going deep into someone else’s world, having unexpected experiences in it, and ultimately recognizing myself.

Later – I was full of energy and a thirst for movement – I couldn’t imagine studying acting. The prospect of dealing with all this classical material seemed too top-heavy to me at the time and scared me off. I had been dancing since I was six years old and was so connected to this form of expression that I decided to pursue a 3-discipline education with acting, singing and dancing.

As with many dancers, my active phase did not last. With a heavy heart, I said goodbye after a knee accident and found comfort in my second love: music and singing. So I finally freed my body from all the tightness and tension it had needed for dancing. As a → singer, I worked for several years in theater, in show productions, and in various band formations, until one day my original desire caught up with me again: Acting!

It’s now or never, I thought, wanting to finally give myself over to the exciting stories that want to be told. After all the entertainment, I longed to play multi-layered characters: Pure, intimate, preferably on camera, without much fanfare – away from what I already knew.

And so the work with my coach Sigrid Andersson at the „Tankstelle“ in Berlin-Mitte led me directly to my first filming experiences and, a few years later, finally to the successful ZDF/teamWorx production „Generation War“ (directed by Philipp Kadelbach), which won the German Television Award (Best Multipart) in 2013 and the Golden Camera (Best TV Movie) and the International Emmy (Best