Lea van Acken

Lea van Acken (born 20 February 1999)[2] is a German actress.

Lea van Acken
Lea van Acken at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2014
Born (1999-02-20) 20 February 1999
Lübeck, Germany[1]
NationalityGerman
OccupationActress
Years active2011–present

Career

Lea van Acken had her first appearance on stage at the Karl May Festival in Bad Segeberg in 2011. She was the leading actress in the 2014 drama film Stations of the Cross directed by Dietrich Brüggemann. In this film, which was awarded with a Silver Bear at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival, she played a Catholic girl in a religiously fanatic family. One year later, she played a minor role in the fifth season of the series Homeland, which was set in Germany. In the 2016 German production Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank, a film about the Holocaust victim Anne Frank, who wrote the famous diary, Lea van Acken is the leading actress. She also appears in the German Netflix series Dark, where she plays as Silja.

Filmography
Film
Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2014 Stations of the Cross Maria
2016 Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank Anne Frank
2017 Fack ju Göhte 3 Amrei
2018 Ostwind 3 Samantha
Television
Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2015 Homeland Ayla Episode: "The Tradition of Hospitality"
2017–2019 Dark Silja 4 episodes

References
  1. "Lea van Acken". filmportal.de. 2018. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  2. Albat, Friederike (February 2016). "Mehr Spielraum" (PDF). Next Generation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 February 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
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