Aylin Tezel

Aylin Tezel is a German actress known for Almanya: Welcome to Germany (2011) (Berlinale Competition 2011) and Breaking Horizons (2012) for which she received the Best Actress Award at the Torino Film Festival. She is starring in the thriller 7500 (2019) alongside Joseph Gordon-Levitt. On television she is known for her series lead regular role as young cop Nora Dalay in Germany's most popular police drama Tatort (1970) and for her regular role in the 3rd season of the Canadian CBC Spy-Series X Company (2015). Aylin played Jewish Polish resistance fighter Zosia, alongside Warren Brown (Strike Back) and Evelyne Brochu (Orphan Black). She was seen as lead role Heidi in Marco Kreuzpaintner's romantic comedy Coming In (2014) for Warner Bros. She has also filmed the lead role of Sabine in Robert Manson's Indie film Lost in the Living (2015). In 2020 Aylin started filming the exciting new miniseries Unbroken, a neooriginal (Bad Banks (2018)) production. Besides Acting Aylin Tezel directed the short documentary Trust me it works about British choreographer Royston Maldoom as well as the short film Tanz mit ihr which premiered at Cork Film Festival and aired on German- French TV Channel ARTE. She also wrote and directed the short film Phoenix (2020) starring Killian Scott (Dublin Murders), Brid Brennan (Brooklyn) and Leonie Benesch (The Crown). She is preparing her directorial debut, the english language feature film Falling Into Place that will be produced by Weydemann Bros who recently earned themselves a lot of recognition with Nora Fingscheidt's film System Crasher (2019) which won awards at the Berlinale, the European Film Awards and was the German submission to the Oscars.