Angela Roy

Angela Roy (born Angela Giesen 24 June 1957, Hamburg) is a German actress and director.

Angela Roy was born into a family of artistes. Her parents were acrobats who with a third partner made up the Iris Roy Trio. Up to the age of eleven she was constantly travelling. She learnt various European languages and she now speaks English, French, Italian and Spanish today.

Roy graduated from high school in Hamburg and then she studied ballet, singing and choreography. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She also has a degree as a certified translator for English / German. She was a choreographer for Pia Zadora.

Roy worked in London theatres and then at the Bavarian State Theatre, the National Theatre of Munich and at the Hamburger Kammerspiele. In 1998, she and her partner Erich Hallhuber created the play Play it again Brecht at Munich Cuvilliés Theatre. This was their first joint directorial work. Their television career began with roles in the series Two brothers and Out of the blue. In 2004 she won the German Television Awards, Television Movie Cold Spring by Dominik Graf. From November 2006 to October 2007 she starred in the telenovela Red roses as Petra Jansen.

She has a daughter and lives since 2002 in her hometown of Hamburg (Rotherbaum district). She is a member of the German Film Academy and the German Association of film and television actor.

Television

Film

• 1991: L’Ange déchu
• 1996: Für immer und immer (Regie: Hark Bohm)
• 2000: Rillenfieber (Regie: Patrick Tauss)
• 2004: Die Unsichtbare (Kurzfilm)
• 2004: Maria an Callas
• 2005: Carrick Mor (Kurzfilm)

• Stadttheater Pforzheim
• Festspiele Heppenheim
• Van Brough Theatre, London
• Theater des Westens, Berlin
• Komödie am Kurfürstendamm, Berlin
• Münchner Lach- und Schießgesellschaft
• Münchner Volkstheater
• Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel, München
• Hamburger Kammerspiele

Theater-Programme

• 1997–2002: Ragout Fin de Siècle – Ein Erich-Kästner-Abend für Erwachsene
• 2000: Wenn ich mich in Deine Stimme hülle – Ein Lotte Lenya / Kurt Weill Abend
• 2001: Ich gehöre nur mir ganz allein – Ein Marlene Dietrich Abend
• 2009: Barfuß im Regen – Theater an der Kö
• 2012: Die Harry Belafonte Story – Theatertournee