Seyneb Saleh


Seyneb Saleh is a German actress.

Early life and education

Seyneb Saleh was born on 25 December 1987 in Aalen, Baden-Württemberg. She is a daughter of a German mother and an Iraqi father. Apart from two years in Casablanca, where she attended an American school, she was mainly raised in Germany. Saleh lives in Berlin.
She studied acting from 2008 to 2012 at the Berlin University of the Arts and received a scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes in 2010.

Career

After graduating Seyneb Saleh performed in over 26 theater productions at the Maxim Gorki Theater, the Schauspielhaus Graz, the Volkstheater Wien, the Schauspiel Hannover and the Deutsches Theater Berlin.
In addition to her theater engagements, she has regularly worked for film, TV and streaming platforms, including the Netflix productions Mute, Dogs of Berlin, an Arabic-speaking role in Deutschland 86, the ZDF series Jenseits der Spree, the German-Israeli Sky series Munich Games, the award-winning German anthology series Uncivilized, the German adaptation of the French cult series: Call my Agent - Berlin and feature films such as Toubab, Was von der Liebe bleibt and Sabbatical.
She was introduced to a wider international audience in 2018 in Duncan Jones neo-noir science fiction film Mute, in which she played the female lead character Naadirah alongside Alexander Skarsgård, Paul Rudd & Justin Theroux.
In 2022 her leading role in the Sky series Munich Games further gained her much praise from international critics. Her performance in the multilingual, action packed espionage series gained her and Yousif Sweid nominations for the German Acting Award as Best Duo - performance in 2023.
Saleh won her first German Acting Award in 2022 for her performance in Toubab as Best Supporting Role and a second one followed for her performance in the episode 9/11 of the German anthology series Uncivilized as Best Episodic Role in 2025.
Seyneb Saleh is multilingual and speaks German and English fluently, as well as French and Arabic.
Through her intense work with director and puppeteer Nikolaus Habjan she learned how to operate puppets, as she performed in his plays both, as an actress and a puppeteer.