Amira El Sayed is an Austrian actress and

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based in

Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...

, Austria. Amira El Sayed was born on the 3 June 1991 in

Innsbruck Innsbruck (; ) is the capital of Tyrol (federal state), Tyrol and the List of cities and towns in Austria, fifth-largest city in Austria. On the Inn (river), River Inn, at its junction with the Wipptal, Wipp Valley, which provides access to the ...

, Austria. She is the only child of Erika El Sayed, an Austrian language and history teacher and Adel El Sayed, a university teacher and political scientist from

Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...

. Amira was raised bilingual and is a native speaker of both

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and German. She spent her early years living in

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, Egypt before she moved back to Innsbruck with her parents. At the age of 16 Amira moved to

where she later studied acting at the renowned Max Reinhardt Seminar. Amongst others she was taught by Klaus Maria Brandauer. She left University in the first year to play a part in Paul Schrader’s ''The Cleopatra Club'', a theatre play directed by Rupert Henning, where she was discovered by her first agent. Her first international film was 2016's '' A Hologram for the King'', starring Tom Hanks and directed by Tom Tykwer. In 2017, she went on to appear in the Swiss television series Wilder ( SRF) and the Norddeutscher Rundfunk film Der Richter (director Markus Imboden). Her most recent work involves roles in Ransom in 2018, Deutschland 86'' in 2018, Riviera (TV series) in 2019, Hanna (TV series) in 2021 and the HBO MAX Spy/Master in 2023''IMDb: Amira El Sayed''
Retrieved 2022-07-24 Amira El Sayed is also the author of the book, titled ''Klang der Freiheit'' (''The Sound of Freedom'') which was published in 2013 by the Austrian publishing house Letter P.P: Amira El Sayed''
Retrieved 2022-07-24 She currently lives in Vienna, Austria.

Filmography

Publications

* ''Klang der Freiheit

Letter P, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-9503168-4-1

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sayed, Amira Living people Austrian actresses 1991 births Actresses from Innsbruck Actresses from Berlin Austrian people of Egyptian descent Austrian women writers 21st-century Austrian actresses