Born in 1978 in Suhl, a town in East Germany, Sandra Hüller was passionate about acting from a very young age. She joined a drama club as a teenager and made her stage debut while still in high school, participating in Wir Voodookinder (1996), a theatre play directed by Robert Lehniger at the Theatertreffen der Jugend in Berlin. Hüller then moved to the capital to study at the Ernst Busch Acting Academy before spending two years at a theatre southwest of Leipzig, later moved to Switzerland to join the Theater Basel – where her outstanding performances won her the Best Newcomer Actress distinction by the Theater Heute in 2003. Having built up an impressive career in dramaturgy, Hüller made her first foray into cinema with Requiem (2016), which won her the Silver Bear for Best Actress. Not only talented and versatile but also polyglot, the actress joins the French cinema scene in 2019 by playing Mika in Justine Triet’s Sibyl, co-starring Virginie Efira and Adèle Exarchopoulos. 2023 marked an extraordinary year for the German actress, as she starred in two films premiering in the main competition category at the Cannes Film Festival: Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, and Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest. Both productions were highly acclaimed and won her many nominations, sometimes for the same accolade, and the former won Hüller her second European Film Award and the César Award for Best Actress.
