Devrim Lingnau (born November 17, 1998) is a German actress.

Life

Devrim Lingnau was born in

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to a Turkish father and a German mother and grew up bilingual. During school she studied

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and attended the Academy of Dance at the University of Music and Performing Arts Mannheim. At the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, she began studying art under German artist Ulla von Brandenburg. In 2014 she was in a feature film of the

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television series '' Aktenzeichen XY … ungelöst (File Number XY...unsolved)''. From 2014 to 2015, she had a recurring role as Yasemin in the young adult mystery series ''Fluch des Falken'' on Bavarian Radio and roles on the children's channel

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. In the 2017 German television mini-series, ''Under Suspicion: Lost Security'' by ZDF and

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, she played the Turkish-German Aleyna Kara, directed by Andreas Herzog. In the episode "Kinderkram" of the ARD series ''Die Kanzlei'' she was seen in an episode role as Tonja in 2018. After graduating from high school in 2017 from the Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Gymnasium in Mannheim-Neckarau she starred in the 2019 British film ''

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'' alongside

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and

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, in which she played the title role. The film premiered at the

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in 2019. In 2021 she starred in the German TV film ''Borga'' by York-Fabian Raabe playing opposite

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as her daughter. In December 2020 it was announced that she would take on the title role in the

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series '' The Empress'' about

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alongside Philip Froissant as

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. The series was released on September 29, 2022.

Filmography

* 2014: '' Aktenzeichen XY … ungelöst'' (TV series) 1 episode * 2014-2015: ''Fluch des Falken'' (TV series) * 2017: ''Unter Verdacht: Verlorene Sicherheit'' (TV series) * 2018: ''Immortality'' (Mini-series) * 2018: ''Die Kanzlei - Kinderkram'' (TV series) * 2019: ''In Wahrheit - Still ruht der See'' (TV series) * 2019: ''

'' (Film) - Carmilla * 2019: '' Der Bozen-Krimi - Gegen die Zeit'' (TV series) * 2019: '' Auerhaus'' * 2020: ''Der Kriminalist'' - (TV series) 1 episode * 2021: '' Borga'' * 2021: ''Allmen und das Geheimnis der Erotik'' (TV series) * 2022: '' The Empress'' (Series,

) -

* 2025: ''Hysteria'' a thriller film by Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lingnau, Devrim Living people 1998 births German film actresses German television actresses 21st-century German actresses Actresses from Mannheim German people of Turkish descent