Seyneb Saleh

Seyneb Saleh (born 25 December 1987 in Aalen, Germany) is a German actress. She is best known for her role as Naadirah in the 2018 Netflix film Mute. Saleh is a daughter of a German mother and an Iraqi father. Apart from two years in Casablanca, where she attended an American school, she was mainly raised in Germany. She studied acting from 2008 to 2012 at the Berlin University of the Arts and received a scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes in 2010. After gaining a leading role in Das rote Zimmer by Rudolf Thome she appeared in Offroad, where she played alongside Nora Tschirner and Elyas M'Barek. 2012 she joined the ensemble at the playhouse in Graz, Austria. Apart from small performances on screen in 2014 in For Nothing and The Lies of the Victors, she mainly performed on stage. 2015 she transitioned to the Volkstheater Vienna, where she was a member of the acting ensemble and appeared until 2018. During this period she w