Alexandra Finder

With her many years of experience on the theater stage as well as in film and television, Alexandra brings not only professional maturity, but also a remarkable artistic openness. She works with great care, intelligence and passion - always in search of the human truth behind the character. Directors not only appreciate her expressiveness and precision, but also her reliable, inspiring collaboration on set.

Alexandra was born in East Berlin and began dancing at the age of 5, influenced by a childhood in the GDR. After ballet school in Leipzig, she hung up her pointe shoes, but not the stage and spotlights, and ended up in front of the camera and at the Ernst Busch drama school. After her permanent engagement at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, she appeared on stage in 2008 in “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, the Schauspiel Frankfurt, the Staatstheater Saarbrücken and in Erlangen. Her most interesting works include the Grimme Prize-winning film “Brinkmanns Zorn” by Harald Bergmann and Philip Gröning's feature film “Die Frau des Polizisten”, which won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival and for which she received several awards as best leading actress. These include the experimental film “Thomas der Hochspringer” by Leri Matehha and “Schwimmen” by Luzie Loose - both premiered at several film festivals. 
She lives as a freelance artist in Berlin and, as artistic director and actress, realized the successful 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 swapped the Grands Battements of ballet for the Martelos of the Brazilian combat dance CAPOEIRA, which she has been practicing for 20 years.