Elisa Thiemann

Elisa Thieman is a german actress. She was discovered on street as a teenager in Hamburg. Invited for the casting for the tv film MIT DEM RÜCKEN ZUR WAND directed by renowned writer and director Thorsten Näter, she got her first mainrole. The film won the Hamburger Fernsehpreis 2002, got several nominations on the Deutschen Fernsehpreis 2003. Despite of her created interest for acting and film she finished her school 2005. Forthwith she started and successfully completed her filmactingschool 2007 on Studio of Young Artists. Her final exam with the short EINER VON UNS directed by Timo Pierre Rositzki got nominated on up-and-coming-award. Before and after the actingschool she acted in several shorts and tv series like NOTRUF HAFENKANTE and ROTE ROSEN.In 2008 followed the next big tv film EINE NACHT IM GRANDHOTEL directed by Thorsten Näter, which got nominated for the Grimme Preis 2011. In this year Timo Pierre Rositzki get her the mainrole in his short PROFILE which win the Shocking Short Award 2011 in munich filmfest and get her first international award on Los Angeles Cinema Festival Hollywood 2011 for best supporting actress. 2012 next to other projects she got the mainrole Sophie in the short LAGUNA MORTA, which took place in Venedig and was directed by Christopher Schlierf.Since 2013 she acts in the successful Webserie as the role Lotta from Deutsche Welle. Moreover she grows up as a policewoman, Kerstin Klum, for "Der Usedom Krimi" in 2016! 2018 she acted the role Christina Niehaus in the successful ZDF drama GLADBECK. 2020 she is going on USA Filmfestival Tour with EFFIGY - POISON AND THE CITY, directed by Udo Flohr, in which she took part as one of the main roles. Based on the true story of female serial killer Gesche Gottfried, which is set in 1820s Bremen, Germany. Effigy won the Award Golden Aphrodite at the CYIFF Crypus Filmfestival 2019. Joyful is the critic: That Elisa reminds of the young Jodie Foster.

She is based in Berlin!