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Christiane Seidel
American-born German-Danish actress From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Christiane Julie Louise Seidel (born April 3, 1988) 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.
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Early life
Seidel was born in Wichita Falls, Texas,[1] to a Danish mother and a German father, who was serving in the navy.[2] She also grew up in Denmark and Germany. Her first experience of acting came in a school nativity play.[3] She followed her interest in acting by attending theatre camps, performing The Rocky Horror Picture Show in German,[3] and attended for a semester at film school in Cape Town, South Africa.[3] Seidel studied Media Management in Europe,[2] before returning to the US to study at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute[1] in New York, to pursue her acting career.[4]
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Seidel's US television debut was as a Guest Star on NBC Universal's police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit's [5] season 12 premiere episode in 2010.[6] She starred as FBI Agent Sarah DeSoto in the noir-feature film, The Hollow in 2015,[7][8] and as Sybille Ranisch in Schmidts Katze in 2014,.[9]
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[10] from season 2 to season 5 (2012 – 2015).[4] As of 2015, Seidel is a member of the Scandinavian American Theater Company,[2] a theater company which has introduced several Scandinavian plays to the United States.[11] In 2017, Seidel played Martha, a mysterious, free-spirited German stranger, in the Netflix mini-series Godless, starring alongside Michelle Dockery and Jeff Daniels.[12][13]
In 2019, Seidel played the role of Hannah, mistress of Bob Fosse (Sam Rockwell) in FX television series Fosse/Verdon.[14][4]
In 2020, she played Helen Deardorff in the Scott Frank directed The Queen's Gambit alongside Anya Taylor-Joy.[3]
In 2022, Seidel stars in the Anna Gutto directed thriller movie Paradise Highway, in a cast which included Juliette Binoche and Morgan Freeman.[15]
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Personal life
Seidel was pregnant during the filming of Godless in 2017 and is mother of twin boys.[14][4]
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