Alexandra Finder

The actress ALEXANDRA FINDER, who grew up in East Berlin and studied at the Ernst Busch School, works as a freelance artist in Berlin. She has appeared in various cinema and television productions, including the Grimme Prize-winning film BRINKMANN'S ZORN by Harald Bergmann. In 2004, Alexandra Finder won the Giraldillo de Plata Award for best leading actress in Seville for Philip Gröning's film THE POLICE OFFICER'S WIFE. The film had its world premiere at the 70th Venice Film Festival in 2013, where it was awarded the Special Jury Prize. Her latest experimental film THOMAS DER HOCHSPRINGER by artist Leri Matehha premiered at the Hof Film Festival and was shown at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam. She is represented by Agentur Vogel. After her permanent engagement at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Alexandra Finder appeared on stage in 2008 in the production of Janusz Wisniewski's Noah's Ark - The new end of Europe in Poznan and other European cities as well as Tel Aviv. This was followed by guest engagements at the Deutsches Theater, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Staatstheater Saarbrücken and Erlangen. In 2022, as artistic director and actress, she realized the site-specific performance SEID DOCH LAUT about the GDR opposition group "Frauen für den Frieden" (Women for Peace) at the Stasi headquarters in Berlin. She has been doing capoeira for 20 years.