Lea van Acken
Lea van Acken at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2014
Born (1999-02-20) 20 February 1999
NationalityGerman
OccupationActress
Years active2011–present

Lea van Acken (born 20 February 1999)[2] is a German actress.

Career

Lea van Acken had her first appearance on stage at the Karl May Festival in Bad Segeberg in 2011. She was the leading actress in the 2014 drama film Stations of the Cross directed by Dietrich Brüggemann. In this film, which was awarded with a Silver Bear at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival, 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, which was set in Germany. She played Holocaust victim Anne Frank in the 2016 German production Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank. Van Acken also appears in the German Netflix series Dark as Silja Tiedemann.

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2014 Stations of the Cross Maria
2015 Heil Teenager
2016 Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank Anne Frank
2016 Sag mir nichts Susanna TV movie
2016 Spreewaldkrimi - Spiel mit dem Tod Svenja Heinze TV movie
2017 Bibi & Tina: Perfect Pandemonium Adea/Alladin
2017 Stormwind 3 Sam
2017 Fack ju Göhte 3 Amrei
2018 Slender Man Michelle
2019 Abikalypse Hannah
2022 Das Privileg Lena
Television
Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2015 Homeland Ayla Episode: "The Tradition of Hospitality"
2017–2019 Dark Silja Tiedemann 8 episodes
2020 Sloborn Ella 7 episodes

References

  1. "Lea van Acken". filmportal.de. 2018. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  2. Albat, Friederike (February 2016). "Mehr Spielraum" (PDF). Next Generation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 February 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
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