peoplepill id: christiane-seidel
CS
United States of America
3 views today
3 views this week
Christiane Seidel
American-born German-Danish actress

Christiane Seidel

The basics

Quick Facts

Intro
American-born German-Danish actress
Gender
Female
Place of birth
Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA
Age
36 years
The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Christiane Seidel is a German-Danish-American actress, having had roles in Boardwalk Empire (2011-2014), Schmidts Katze (2014), The Hollow (2016), Godless (2017), Fosse/Verdon and Human Capital (2019), and Paradise Highway in 2022.

Early life

Seidel was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, to a Danish mother and a German father, who was serving in the navy. She also grew up in Denmark and Germany. Her first experience of acting came in a school nativity play. She followed her interest in acting by attending theatre camps, performing The Rocky Horror Picture Show in German, and attended for a semester at film school in Cape Town, South Africa. Seidel studied Media Management in Europe, before returning to the US to study at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York, to pursue her acting career.

Career

Seidel's US television debut was as a Guest Star on NBC Universal's police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'sseason 12 premiere episode in 2010.She starred as FBI Agent Sarah DeSoto in the noir-feature film, The Hollow in 2015, and as Sybille Ranisch in Schmidts Katze in 2014,.

Seidel starred as Sigrid Mueller, the Norwegian wife to rogue Treasury Agent Nelson Van Alden (Michael Shannon) in the HBO TV drama series Boardwalk Empire from season 2 to season 5 (2012 – 2015). As of 2015, Seidel is a member of the Scandinavian American Theater Company, a theater company which has introduced several Scandinavian plays to the United States. In 2017, Seidel played Martha, a mysterious, free-spirited German stranger, in the Netflix mini-series Godless, starring alongside Michelle Dockery and Jeff Daniels.

In 2019, Seidel played the role of Hannah, mistress of Bob Fosse (Sam Rockwell) in FX television series Fosse/Verdon.

In 2020, she played Helen Deardorff in the Scott Frank directed The Queen's Gambit alongside Anya Taylor-Joy.

In 2022, Seidel stars in the Anna Gutto directed thriller movie Paradise Highway, in a cast which included Juliette Binoche and Morgan Freeman.

Personal life

Seidel was pregnant during the filming of Godless in 2017 and is mother of twin boys.

Filmography

Christiane Seidel
Christiane Seidel at the filming of Schmidts Katze in 2014
YearTitleRole
2007Far Out (short film)Gillian
2008AroundForeign NYU Director
2009Bordenia (short film)Nancy O'Neill
2009The Invisible Life of Thomas LynchTina
2011Tu & Eu (short film)Julia
2011Folkswagon (short film)Eva
2012The Left Hook (short film)Nancy / Brenda
2014Split End (short film)Katha
2014Schmidts KatzeSybille Ranisch
2016The Perfect Nothing (Short film)Carrie
2016The HollowSarah Desoto
2017Yellow Fever(Supporting)
2017Hard (short film)Ellie
201816mins (Short film)Lizzie
2019The Big Shit (Short film)Julie
2019Human CapitalGodeep's Wife
2020Tether (short film)Delilah Desmond
2020The Knot (Short film)Eve
2022BoonCatherine
2022Over/UnderSheryl West
2022God's TimeSydney
2022Paradise HighwayClaire


Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2010Law & Order: Special Victims UnitDarla Pinnington1 episode
2013The Sonnet ProjectMother1 episode
2011-2014Boardwalk EmpireSigrid MuellerRecurring role, 4 seasons
2016Jay & PlutoJessica
2016Dating AlarmAnnabelleTV movie
2017RoyallyCaroline1 episode
2017GodlessMartha BischoffRecurring role, 6 episodes
2019Fosse/VerdonHannah2 episodes
2020The Queen's GambitHelen Deardorff3 episodes

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryNominated workResultRef.
2018Brightside Tavern Film FestivalBest Actress in a Horror/Thriller16 minsNominated
The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Lists
Christiane Seidel is in following lists
comments so far.
Comments
From our partners
Sponsored
Credits
References and sources
Christiane Seidel
arrow-left arrow-right instagram whatsapp myspace quora soundcloud spotify tumblr vk website youtube pandora tunein iheart itunes