Dominique Siassia

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Dominique Siassia (born July 18, 1979 in Osterburg (Altmark) ) is a German actress and singer .

Life

Siassia's German mother emigrated with the baby to Dominique's father's homeland, the Republic of the Congo . Her two mother tongues are German and French. Dominique grew up in the first nine years of her life in the Congolese capital Brazzaville . Because of the civil war, Dominique's mother and her nine-year-old daughter fled from the Congo before the fall of the Berlin Wall back to the GDR . From Saxony-Anhalt , Dominique, her mother and her German grandfather fled to Germany . A year later, the father also managed to escape from the Congo to Germany; he moved in with his daughter, mother and grandfather.

Dominique attended elementary school in Duisburg-Bruckhausen . She passed her Abitur at the natural science Franz-Haniel-Gymnasium in Duisburg-Homberg .

She currently lives in Berlin. In 2010 Dominique Siassia converted to Buddhism .

Career

During school she earned her pocket money as a model and had advertising contracts with Adidas and Cerruti , among other things . At the same time as she graduated from high school, she trained as a dance teacher in the dance styles of Afro dance . She took part in dance competitions and won the Duisburger Tanztage with a solo performance .

In 2000 she was accepted into the coveted musical program at the Folkwang University in Essen. Right at the beginning of her studies, she got a three-year guest contract at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus from 2001 . There she played the main female role of "Tamara" in the stage version of 39.90 . After completing her studies, she continued to perform in various theater productions. Among other things, she played the role of "Cordelia" from King Lear by William Shakespeare at the Ruhr Festival 2006 under the direction of Ingo Waszerka . There were also music productions in which she was engaged as a singer. At the end of 2006 she also worked as a spokesperson for productions for the radio station WDR5 .

In 2007 she got the offer of the ARD for the female lead of "Samia Bergmeister" in the third season of the telenovela Sturm der Liebe - the first Afro-German actress to act as the main character within a narrative thread. After completing her shooting for Sturm der Liebe , she accepted a guest contract with the Hamburger Kammerspiele from autumn 2008 up to and including 2009 . Here she played the role of the politics student "Terry Scoles" in the modern socio-critical play Zeitfenster by David Hare . In 2010 she made a guest appearance in the episode role of the pathologist “Dr. Jentsch ”in the Sat.1 -Telenovela Anna und die Liebe . In the same year, the anniversary episode of Die Rosenheim-Cops with Dominique Siassia in the lead role of the fashion design student “Amrei Siberbauer” was broadcast. Night shift - one murder too many , the ZDF crime fiction film series with her as "Joelle" at Armin Rohde's side , soon followed. In 2011 she took on the female lead alongside the male lead actor Götz George for the anniversary episode of Nachtschicht - Reise in den Tod . In 2012 she played, in a guest role as “Anna Stern”, in the second part of the ZDF Marthaler crime film Kommissar Marthaler - Score of death alongside Julia Jentsch . In 2013 she played the female lead “Emmi” at the Schauspielbühnen Stuttgart in the play version of the bestselling novel of the same name, Gut gegen Nordwind . In the same year she also stood in front of the camera for the shooting of the ZDF comedy Die Mütter-Mafia as "Paris" with Annette Frier . Soon afterwards the ensemble was nominated for the German Comedy Award 2014 in the category “Best TV Comedy”. This was followed by the shooting of the second part, which was broadcast in 2015 under the title Die Müttermafia – Godmother . In the same year she performed as a singer at a gala with the Berlin Jazz Orchestra in the Wintergarten Berlin .

Filmography (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirke Köpp: Elisabeth, Maria or Kate . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . September 24, 2002 ( online [accessed October 25, 2016]).
  2. ↑ I'm the Fool of Lear or: Lear's last volume. Scenes from Shakespeare and Beckett. In: ruhrfestspiele.de. Archived from the original on October 27, 2006 ; accessed on November 6, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Stars for Magnus. In: marcsecara.de. Retrieved October 25, 2016 .

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personal data
SURNAME Siassia, Dominique
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Osterburg , German Democratic Republic