Isabelle Redfern

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Isabelle Rebecca Redfern (born August 19, 1976 in Munich ) is an American - German actress and singer .

Life

Redfern first studied ethnology , art history and German language and literature at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and sat in with George Tabori and Leander Haußmann at the Residenztheater in Munich . She studied acting at the Hanover University of Music and Theater and graduated with a diploma . At the same time, she received singing lessons from Carol Richardson-Smith, Charlotte Lehmann and later from Miriam Gordon-Stewart . She also studied music at the Berlin University of the Arts .

Engagements at various theaters followed, such as the Lower Saxony State Theater in Hanover , the State Theater in Braunschweig , the Thalia Theater in Hamburg and the Schloßpark Theater in Berlin.

In the season 2016/17 she played in the play Outlaw by Ayad Akhtar the role of Jory in the German premiere at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus under the direction of Klaus Schumacher (best foreign play of the year Theater Today 2016) in the Austrian premiere at the Burgtheater under the direction by Tina Lanik (Nestroy Prize 2017) as well as in the takeover at the Residenztheater Munich under Antoine Uitdehaag . She played Theres in the Schwarzkopie / Mittelreich production of the novel of the same name by Josef Bierbichler. The production by Anta Helena Recke was invited to the Theatertreffen in 2018 and won the ITI Prize in 2019. Isabelle Redfern has been a member of the Schaubühne Berlin ensemble since 2019.

As a member of the opera choir of the Bayreuth Festival , she sang in the Wagner operas Lohengrin , Parsifal , Meistersinger and Tannhäuser in 2010 and 2011 . With the Company MamaNoSing she realized own music theater projects. The first recording of the melodrama Electra by Christian Cannabich, conducted by Frieder Bernius, was made with the Musikpodium Stuttgart and SWR in 2019.

In 2014 she could be seen in the cinema adaptation of Sönke Wortmann's lap prayers . In 2015 she also took part in the episode Fremde Heimat on the ZDF series Notruf Hafenkante . In the 2016 feature film Papa and the Bride from Cuba , shown in the First , she played the female title role alongside Walter Kreye .

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SURNAME Redfern, Isabelle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Redfern, Isabelle Rebecca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-German actress and singer
DATE OF BIRTH 19th August 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich