Daniela Rodler

Daniela Rodler is an actress and underwater performer born in Munich, Germany. She works in veterinary science as main job. Since the age of 14 she was trained in classical ballet and tapdance for 10 years, got acting classes led by Helmut Frye at grammar schoool, took private acting classes afterwards and singing lessons from 2011-2020 by Andreas Kohn, August-Everding-Academy Munich. Last, she completed an "Acting-For-Film" Workshop (April-August 2020) at Theater Werkmünchen.
During her medical study years (1999-2005) she landed some parts as physician / nurse at TV productions like German crime series "SOKO 5113" or "Polizeiruf 110".

After graduating Daniela worked as veterinary scientist at Munich University where she published in many peer reviewed scientific journals. She intensively cared for her acting career at the same time. Soon she got further parts like episode role Carla Brandl at the crime series "Die Rosenheim Cops" or receptionist "Leni" at the 5-part movie "Zwei am großen See". For her first cinema appearance she played a "Witch of the inner circle" around head witch Walpurgia (Monica Bleibtreu) at the cine film "Bibi Blocksberg und das Geheimnis der blauen Eulen". Last, she appeared in the short film "Imago" in 2020 and in Fatih Akin´s new cinema movie "Rheingold" coming in Oct 2022.

The actress is a former competition swimmer, apnea- and scuba diver and therefore worked additionally as an underwater stunt since 2008. Her focus is the portrayal of an authentic mermaid, specialized for movie / TV appearance. It has always been her aim to represent this magical creature as realistic as possible, contrary to the current, more sporty-orientated mermaiding trend. Therfore she trained hard to gain the fluidy and elegant performance of a real mermaid.

Numerous mermaid appearances occured for Daniela, either at TV-magazines like "taff" (ProSieben), "BR Abendschau" (BR) or "Mona Lisa" (ZDF). For her underwater appearances she was cast as Lynn Margulies, an evolutionary scientist in the augmented-reality-installation "Jelly Eyes", as well as a contribution in the educational film "Schönheit - Wahrnehmung und Darstellung" and mermaid stunts at the crime movie "Die Toten vom Bodensee" (episode "Mermaid", ZDF, 2019), and a timetravel movie called "t = e/x²" (Dances-with-films Festival, Chinese Theatre, Hollywood 2021).

Together with illustrator Stephanie Naglschmid, Daniela published the first German-speaking how-to-be-a-mermaid book for children in May 2017 (SNaglschmid, Stuttgart, Germany).

Daniela Rodler is one of the best known mermaids in Europe, and performs internationally.

The actress speaks German as mother tongue, also English, French and Spanish. She lives in Munich, Germany.