Nilam Farooq
Farooq in 2019
Born (1989-09-26) 26 September 1989
Berlin, Germany
OccupationActress

Nilam Farooq (born 26 September 1989) is a German actress. She has appeared in several television series, films, and commercials. She won the best actress Jupiter Award (2019) and the Bavarian Film Awards (2020) for movies Heilstätten and Contra.

Biography

Nilam Farooq is the daughter of a Pakistani father and a Polish mother, and she has a younger brother. She was born in Berlin and grew up in the Wilmersdorf district,[1] where she attended the local Goethe-Gymnasium and completed her Abitur. Farooq displayed an early interest in acting and began her acting career at age 14. In addition to German, she is fluent in Polish and English, and has language credentials in Latin and Ancient Greek.[2]

In 2006 Farooq had her first guest and supporting roles as an actress on television and short films. She started appearing in commercials in the late 2000s and since the beginning of the 2010s, took some roles as a voice actress.

From 2013 to 2019 Farooq was regularly seen in the television series Leipzig Homicide as Commissioner Olivia Fareedi.[3]

She has since played roles in various TV films and series, for example in Tatort: Roomservice [4] or Polizeiruf 110: Grenzgänger.

Since 2015 she has had a number of feature-length film roles, including My Blind Date with Life, Sweethearts by Karoline Herfurth, the horror film Heilstätten, and David Dietl's Rate Your Date.[5]

For her portrayal of Betty in Heilstätten, she won the 2019 Jupiter Award for Best Actress.[6]

Filmography

Television

Feature-length films

Short films

  • 2007: Stiller Frühling
  • 2007: Türk Rulet
  • 2008: Suzan
  • 2010: Tintenfischwolken
  • 2011: George 90°
  • 2012: Der Passagier

Commercials

  • 2009: Telekom "Grenzen gab es gestern" ("Borders are the thing of the past")
  • 2012: Lebe Viva
  • 2018: Wix.com

Voice acting

  • 2010: Berliner Morgenpost: Kinderkram
  • 2010: Upperdog – Rolle: Yanne
  • 2011: Royal Pains – Rolle: Anna
  • 2013: Quellen des Lebens – Rolle: Laura

Awards

  • 2019: Jupiter Award – Best Actress for "Heilstätten"
  • 2018: nominated for Young Icons Award – Actress/Actor for "My Blind Date with Life" [7]
  • 2020: Bavarian Film Awards – Best Actress for "Contra" [8]
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References

  1. ↑ ""Soko Leipzig" bekommt Verstärkung – Nilam Farooq ermittelt in Internet und Social Media" (in German). dpa. 2012-08-28. Retrieved 2015-03-20.
  2. ↑ Nilam Farooq, from agenturadam.de, accessed on 26 January 2019
  3. ↑ "Dietrich Siegl verlässt SOKO Wien, Nilam Farooq steigt bei SOKO Leipzig aus". www.wunschliste.de.
  4. ↑ "Drehstart für Lena-Odenthal-Tatort". SWR.de. 2014-06-27. Retrieved 2015-03-20.
  5. ↑ "Agent profile of Nilam Farooq" (in German). Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  6. ↑ "Jupiter Award" (in German). Retrieved 2019-04-15.
  7. ↑ "Young Icons Award" (in German). Retrieved 2019-04-15.
  8. ↑ "Bavarian Film Awards via zeit.de" (in German). Retrieved 2021-04-28.
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