Saskia Rosendahl
Date of birth: 1993-07-09
Place of birth: Halle an der Saale, Germany
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Saskia-Sophie Rosendahl
Biography
Saskia-Sophie Rosendahl (born 9 July 1993) is a German actress. She is best known for her role in the film Lore (2012), for which she won the AACTA Award for Best Young Actor. Saskia Rosendahl began her career with the children's ballet of the Halle Opera, with which she performed various theatre appearances from 2001 to 2011. From 2008 to 2011 she worked as an actress in productions of the improvisational theatre "Kaltstart" and the New Theatre Halle. In 2010, Rosendahl made her cinema debut in Wolfgang Dinslage's film Für Elise. In 2011, while still at school, she took on the lead role in Cate Shortland's German-language anti-war drama Lore, which won the audience award at the Locarno Film Festival in 2012 and was the official Australian entry for the 2013 Academy Awards in the category “Best Foreign Language Film”. The magazine Variety praised the maturity and security of the portrayal of her complex role and called Rosendahl an "exciting new talent". At the 23rd Stockholm International Film Festival, she received the award for “Best Actress” for her role in Lore, and at the presentation of the Australian AACTA Award in 2013, she was honored as the best young actress. She graduated from school in 2012 and was part of the ensemble of Vivian Naefe's cinema adaptation of the book bestseller The Taste of Apple Seeds. From August to October 2012, she was directed by Denis Dercourt in a leading role in the movie A Pact in front of the camera. At the Berlinale 2013, Rosendahl was presented by the European Film Promotion as one of the ten European “Shooting Stars”. In the same year, she received a nomination for the New Faces Award for Best Young Actress. In Lindenberg! Do your thing (2020) she plays Petra, immortalized in the song "Mädchen aus Ostberlin" by Udo Lindenberg.
Movie Credits
Lore
2012-09-20
After being abandoned by their Nazi parents at the end of World War II, five German siblings embark
Für Elise
2012-10-11
15-year-old Elise is longing for a happy family life, but her mother Betty is weak and egocentric. S
A Pact
2013-09-19
A dark psychological thriller, A Pact tells the twisted story of a contentious love triangle. As tee
We Are Young. We Are Strong.
2014-10-21
On 24th August 1992 in the eastern German city of Rostock, a rampaging mob, to the applause and chee
Dying
2024-04-25
Mother Lissy, father Gerd, son Tom and daughter Ellen: the members of the Lunies family are estrange
Der Teufel mit den drei goldenen Haaren
2013-12-26
When the farm boy Felix is born with a caul, the rumor spreads in no time that this boy can succeed
Karigula - Monster der Liebe
2024-10-12
Charly was a clown before he lost his talent for making people laugh. When Charly loses his last eng
Wild
2016-04-14
An anarchist young woman breaks the tacit contract with civilization and fearlessly decides on a lif
Kästner and Little Tuesday
2016-11-01
Germany, 1931. The youth novel "Emil and the Detectives" is being filmed, which will make its author
Nirgendwo
2016-10-27
Young Danny has left his home town in the middle of nowhere (="Nirgendwo") behind and moved to Berli
Departure
2016-07-28
Hilla grows up in the 60s, her father is a worker and her mother a charwoman. But she wants a differ
Never Look Away
2018-10-03
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented
Cicadas
2025-06-19
The story of a friendship between two dissimilar women: On the one hand, single mother Anja, who tri
Zorn - Vom Lieben und Sterben
2015-04-16
Lacrimosa
2017-02-06
A young woman finds her lost lover in a world of ever-changing surreal landscapes. But love, she dis
The Taste of Apple Seeds
2013-09-26
When Bertha dies, her granddaughter Iris inherits her house and finds herself back in the home where
The Girl in the Spider's Web
2018-10-25
After being enlisted to recover a dangerous computer program, hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist
Relativity
2019-11-28
The fate of Nora, a supermarket cashier who lives happily with her boyfriend Aron, and that of Natan
Prélude
2019-08-29
Nineteen-year-old David dreams of being a concert pianist on the international stage. Although his t
Die Pantherin
2016-01-24
The night in a big city. A young woman walks alone on a bridge, her gaze unfathomable. She stops, he
Fabian: Going to the Dogs
2021-08-05
In 1930s Berlin, Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by ni
Lindenberg! Mach dein Ding
2020-01-16
Long before his big stage breakthrough in 1973 in Hamburg, and 4.4 million records sold, the rock mu
No One's with the Calves
2022-01-20
Five houses, one bus stop, cows and nothing but fields. 24-year-old Christin lives on the farm of he
The Distances
2018-09-07
Olivia, Eloy, Guille and Anna travel to Berlin to pay a surprise visit to their friend Comas. His we
Who Is Without Fault
2024-07-02
After a night of drinking, Paul wakes up with a severe hangover and can’t remember what happened. Hi
The Meltdown
1992, Chile. Inés parents are away on business and she is left in the care of her grandparents, who