Aylin Tezel
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Occupation(s) | Film actress Television actress |
Years active | 2007–Present |
Aylin Tezel (German: [ˈaɪlɪn ˈteːtsl̩]; born 29 November 1983 in Bünde, Germany) is a German actress and dancer. Her father is a Turkish-born medical doctor practicing in Bielefeld, Germany, and her mother is a nurse. She is a middle child, having an older sister and a younger brother. She is most known for her main role in the film "Almanya - Welcome to Germany" which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2011 and for her main role in the film "Am Himmel der Tag" (En: "Breaking Horizons") for which she received the Best Actress Award at the Torino Film Festival in 2012.
Life and career
Aylin Tezel was born in Bünde and grew up in the Bielefeld district of Sennestadt. There she studied dance from the age of six and graduated from the Hans Ehrenberg private evangelical school. She studied acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. After her film debut in the arthouse feature "Unschuld" (2008) she played a central role in Oliver Kienle’s award- winning film "Closer Than Blood" (First Steps Award 2010).
The actress was especially noted for her role in Yasemin Şamdereli’s film "Almanya - Welcome to Germany", which premiered at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival and won the Deutscher Filmpreis (German Film Award) in 2011. The film was a big hit in German cinemas and had cinema releases in many countries. During Christmas 2011, Tezel was seen as Cinderella in Uwe Janson’s TV film "Aschenputtel" and soon afterwards in one of the main roles as a young cop in Germany’s most popular cop series Tatort. Irish director Shimmy Marcus gave her the main part in his short film "Rhinos" (2011) which premiered at the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival in Toronto, Canada and was nominated for an Award at the Irish Film & Television Awards in 2013.
In 2012 there were cinema releases of her films "3 Zimmer/Küche/Bad" (engl. "Move") and "Breaking Horizons" (original Title: "Am Himmel der Tag"). Pola Beck’s "Breaking Horizons" won the Award for Best Film in German-language feature film competition at the 8th Zurich Film Festival[1] and Aylin Tezel received the Best Actress Award at the 30th Torino Film Festival.[2]
Aylin Tezel filmed Marco Kreuzpaintner’s feature "Coming In" which was released by Warner Bros. in October 2014, playing female lead Heidi who falls for a gay star- hairdresser (Kostja Ullmann). She played female lead Sabine in Irish Robert Manson’s forthcoming debut feature film "Lost in the Living". In the feature "Macho Man", the film version of a German bestseller she plays the female lead alongside German actor Christian Ulmen and Danish actor Dar Salim. The film was released on October 29, 2015 by Universum Film.
Tezel took voice lessons from the late voice coach Julia Wilson-Dickson in London to improve her opportunities for English language roles.
In 2017 Aylin Tezel had a recurring role in the Canadian CBC Television spy thriller television series X Company. She played the Jewish Polish Resistance Fighter Zosia in 6 episodes of the 3rd season alongside Warren Brown and Évelyne Brochu and spoke English with a Polish Accent for the part.
Most recently Aylin filmed the thriller 7500 alongside Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
She also wrote and directed the short film Phoenix (2020) starring Irish Actors Killian Scott, Bríd Brennan and German Actress Leonie Benesch.
Selected filmography
Year | Title | Original Title | Role | Notes |
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2007 | Whom Honor is due | Wem Ehre gebührt | Selda Özkan (L) | Tatort TV series episode |
2008 | Innocence | Unschuld | Derya (L) | |
2009 | Closer than Blood | Bis aufs Blut - Brüder auf Bewährung | Sina (S) | First Steps Award 2010 |
2010 | Bloch | Bloch - Inshallah | Dalia (L) | (TV Film) |
2011 | Almanya - Welcome to Germany | Almanya - Willkommen in Deutschland | Canan (L) | 61st Berlin International Film Festival Competition, Deutscher Filmpreis 2011 for Best Film, Best Screenplay |
2011 | Cinderella | Aschenputtel | Aschenputtel (L) | (TV Film) |
2012 | Move | 3 Zimmer/Küche/Bad | Maria (L) | |
2012 | Breaking Horizons | Am Himmel der Tag | Lara (L) | Best German Language Film Award at Zurich Film Festival 2012,
Best Actress Award at Torino Film Festival 2012, Best Upcoming Actress at German Actors Awards 2013, Best Actress at Sehsüchte Film Festival 2013 |
2012 | Rhinos | Rhinos | Ingrid (L) | (Shortfilm)
Nominated for Best Shortfilm at Irish Film & Television Awards 2012, Prix du Public Best Film, Brest European Short Film Festival 2012, Audience Award Best International Short Film, Corona Cork Film Festival 2012 |
2012 - 2019 | Tatort | Tatort Dortmund | Nora Dalay (L) | (TV series) 14 episodes |
2013 | Kleine Schiffe | Kleine Schiffe | Lilli (L) | (TV Film) |
2013 | Inhale | Tanz mit ihr | Sie (L) | (Shortfilm) Director, Producer, Actress, Choreographer
Berlin & Beyond Film Festival San Francisco, Cork Film Festival, to be released on Arte in 2015 |
2014 | Coming In | Coming In | Heidi (L) | |
2014 | To Life! | Auf das Leben! | Emily (S) | Vienna Film Award 2015 |
2015 | Macho Man | Macho Man | Aylin (L) | Release date: October 29, 2015 - plays a lead character with the same first name as her own |
2015 | Lost in the Living | Lost in the Living | Sabine (L) | First lead role in an English language film, DVD released on September 28, 2018 |
2015 | Why is This Night Different? | Why is This Night Different? | Amena (S) | Homeland TV series episode aired October 25, 2015 |
2016 | The Informant | Die Informantin | Aylin (L) | (TV Film) aired March 19, 2016 - plays a lead character with the same first name as her own |
2017 | X Company | X Company | Zosia (S) | (Canadian TV series) guest starred as a Polish-Jewish resistance fighter in third season episodes 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10 speaking in English with Polish accent for the role |
2017 | Between Heaven and Hell | Zwischen Himmel und Hölle | Ottilie von Gersen (S) | (TV Film) plays a historical character in a film about the Protestant Reformation that was aired on the 500th anniversary of the event, also shown in the UK on BBC with English subtitles |
2019 | The Informant 2 | Die Informantin - Der Fall Lissabon | Aylin (L) | (TV Film) aired April, 2019 - The film is a sequel to the film The Informant (2016) |
2019 | The Master Butcher | Der Club der singenden Metzger | Delphine (L) | is a miniseries about a group of German emigrants from the 1920s trying to find a new home in America. Jonas Nay and Aylin Tezel are the leads. The film is based on Louise Erdrich's novel The Master Butchers Singing Club and aired on German TV on the 27th of December 2019 as a 3 hour long film. Spoken languages in the film are German and English. It was directed by Uli Edel. |
2019 | 7500 | 7500 | Gökce (L) | 7500 is a thriller about a terrorist attack on a plane. It starrs Joseph Gordon-Levitt who plays the Co-Pilot Tobias Ellis. Aylin plays his girlfriend Gökce who is on the same flight as a stewardess. The film was released in German cinemas in December 2019 and was announced to be released globally on Amazon Prime Video in June 2020. |
Awards and nominations
Year | Award | Category | Project | Result |
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2012 | Torino Film Festival | Best Actress | Breaking Horizons | Won |
2013 | Askania Award | Shooting Star | Tatort, Aschenputtel, Am Himmel der Tag | Won |
2013 | Sehsüchte Film Festival | Best Acting | Am Himmel der Tag | Won |
2013 | German Film Critics Association Awards | Best Actress | Am Himmel der Tag, 3 Zimmer/Küche/Bad | Nominated |
2013 | German Actors Award | Best upcoming actress | Am Himmel der Tag | Won |
2013 | Hessischer Film-und Kinopreis | Best Actress | Am Himmel der Tag | Nominated |
2015 | German Actors Award | Best actress in a comedy role | Kleine Schiffe | Won |
2015 | Jupiter Award | Best TV-Actress | Am Himmel der Tag, Tatort | Nominated |
2016 | Hof International Film Festival | Award for Filmmaker | Filmpreis der Stadt Hof | Won |
2019 | Festival of Animated Film | Best Voice Actor | Smallfoot | Nominated |
2020 | Jupiter Award | Best TV-Actress | Tatort, Die Informantin - Der Fall Lissabon | Nominated |
References
- ^ Official page ZFF, 09/12 (in German)
- ^ Official Page TFF, 12/12 (in German)
External links
- Aylin Tezel at IMDb
- Represented by London Acting Agency Curtis Brown
- Represented by German Acting Agency die agenten
- Photo- interview at the Süddeutsche Zeitung [1] (in German)
- review Breaking Horizons at Reykjavik International Film Festival