Aylin Tezel

Aylin Tezel is a German actress known for her role in the thriller 7500 (2019) alongside Joseph Gordon-Levitt and for playing the main role in Unbroken (2021) a neooriginal miniseries about a young cop who has her baby stolen out of her belly and is determined to solve her own case.

Aylin Tezel had her breakthrough with main roles in Almanya: Welcome to Germany (2011) (Berlinale Competition) and Breaking Horizons (2012) for which she received the Best Actress Award at Torino Film Festival. She is further known for having played series lead regular role Nora Dalay in Germany's most popular police drama Tatort (1970) and for her regular role in the 3rd season of the Canadian CBC Spy-Series X Company (2015) where she played Jewish Polish resistance fighter Zosia, alongside Warren Brown. She was seen as lead role Heidi in Marco Kreuzpaintner's romantic comedy Coming In (2014) and has also filmed the lead role of Sabine in Robert Manson's Indie film Lost in the Living (2015). Recently she played the lead Mascha in Pola Beck's forthcoming feature Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt (2022).

Besides Acting Aylin Tezel directed the short documentary Trust me it works about British choreographer Royston Maldoom as well as the short film Tanz mit ihr (2013) which premiered at Cork Film Festival and aired on German- French TV Channel ARTE. She also wrote and directed the short film Phoenix (2020) starring Killian Scott, Brid Brennan and Leonie Benesch. She is preparing her directorial debut, the English language feature film Falling Into Place that will be produced by Weydemann Bros who recently earned themselves a lot of recognition with Nora Fingscheidt's film System Crasher (2019) which won awards at the Berlinale, the European Film Awards and was the German submission to the Oscars.