Biography

Seyneb Saleh is a German actress.

Saleh is a daughter of a German mother and an Iraqi father, she was raised in Germany and Morocco, where she attended an American school.

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.

After graduating, Seyneb Saleh performed in over 35 theater productions at the Schauspielhaus Graz, the Volkstheater Wien, the Schauspiel Hannover, Maxim Gorki Theater and Deutsches Theater Berlin. In addition to her theater engagements, she has regularly worked for film, TV, and streaming platforms, including the Netflix productions Mute (2018) and Dogs of Berlin (2018), the ZDF series Jenseits der Spree (2021), the Sky series Munich Games (2022), the Grimme Award winning series UNcivilized (2024), the German adaptation of the French cult series: Call my Agent Berlin (2025), and the feature films Toubab (2021), Was von der Liebe bleibt (2022), and Sabbatical (2023).

She was introduced to a wider international audience in Duncan Jones neo-noir science fiction film Mute, in which she starred as Naadirah alongside Alexander Skarsgård, Paul Rudd & Justin Theroux. As well as her lead in the Sky series Munich Games.

For her work in Toubab, she received the German Acting Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2022. In 2023, she was nominated for the German Acting Award in the category Best Duo, together with Yousef Sweid, for her performance in Munich Games, and in 2025, she was nominated for the German Acting Award in the category Best Actress in an Episodic Role for her performance in UNcivilized (2024).

Seyneb Saleh is multilingual and speaks German, English, French, and Arabic. She is also familiar with various dialects and accent styles (e.g. Berlin German, Rheinisch, Austrian etc.) as well as accents in American English, UK English, different Arabic accents.

Saleh lives in Berlin.