Seyneb Saleh
Born
Seyneb Nesha Saleh

(1987-12-25) 25 December 1987
Aalen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
NationalityGerman
OccupationActress
Years active2010–present
Height1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in)

Seyneb Nesha Saleh (born 25 December 1987) is a German actress. She is best known for her role as Naadirah in the 2018 Netflix film Mute.

Biography

Seyneb Nesha Saleh was born on 25 December 1987 in Aalen, Baden-Württemberg. She is a daughter of a German mother and an Iraqi father. Apart from two years in Casablanca, where she attended an American school, she was mainly raised in Germany.[1][2] Saleh lives in Berlin.

She studied acting from 2008 to 2012 at the Berlin University of the Arts and received a scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes in 2010.[3]

Career

After gaining a leading role in The Red Room by Rudolf Thome she appeared in Offroad, where she played alongside Nora Tschirner and Elyas M'Barek. 2012 she joined the ensemble at the playhouse in Graz, Austria. Apart from small performances on screen in 2014 in For Nothing and The Lies of the Victors, 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 puppeteer and director Nikolaus Habjan, who has taught her puppeteering. In his shows she hence performed as an actress as well as a puppeteer.[4]

In 2016 Saleh landed her first English-language role in Duncan Jones' Mute. In the neo-noir science fiction film she played the mysterious girlfriend Naadirah of a mute bartender played by Alexander Skarsgård. The Netflix production got released in February 2018.

2018 She further appeared in Deutschland 86 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

Year Title Role Director Notes
2010 The Red Room Sibil Rudolf Thome
2012 Offroad Özlem Elmar Fischer
2014 For Nothing Blanche Stephan Geene
The Lies of the Victors Mira Christoph Hochhäusler
2017 Neda Neda Afagh Irandoost Short film
2018 Mute Naadirah Duncan Jones
2019 Herzjagen Anika Elisabeth Scharang TV movie
Golden Twenties Tamara Sofie Kluge
2021 Toubab Yara Florian Dietrich

Theater

Year Title Role Director
2012 Clavigo Marie Alexandra Liedtke
Elfriede Jellinek Faustin Philip Jenkins
2013 Dennis Kelly Helen Lina Hölscher
Yael Renan and the ensemble: No Man's Land Leyla Yael Renan
2014 The Misunderstanding Maria Nikolaus Habjan
2015 Vieux Carré Jane Sparks Sebastian Schug
The Changeling Nikolaus Habjan
2016 Brighton Beach Memoirs Nora Sarantos Zervoulakos
ship of fools Lizzi Spöckenkieker Dušan David Pařízek
2017 Romeo and Juliet Juliet Sebastian Schug
The Decalogue: The Ten Commandments Anka / Majka / Ola / Zofia Stephan Kimmig

Television

Year Title Role Network Notes
2013 Verbrechen nach Ferdinand von Schirach Naila
2018 Deutschland 86 Aya Amazon Prime / Sundance TV 2 episodes
Dogs of Berlin Rafika Masaad Netflix 6 episodes
2019 SOKO Stuttgart Samira Akar ZDF 1 episode
2020 Over Christmas Karina Netflix 3 episodes
Letzter Wille Nayer Ziaar V Film 1 episode
2021 Jenseits der Spree Kay Freund ZDF 4 episodes
Dengler Ezra Malik 1 episode

References

  1. ↑ Petsch, Barbara (24 August 2016). "Seyneb Saleh: "In sich zuhause sein ist wichtig"". Die Presse (in German). Retrieved 27 February 2018.
  2. ↑ ""Mute": Eine Volkstheater-Schauspielerin erobert Netflix". Die Presse (in German). 28 February 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  3. ↑ "Seyneb Saleh | AGENTUR SCHNEIDER BERLIN". agentur-schneider-berlin.de. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  4. ↑ "Neu am Volkstheater: Seyneb Saleh". Mottingers-Meinung.at (in German). 21 October 2015. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
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