Luise Heyer

Luise Heyer (born 25 March 1985) is a German actress. She was voted best actress in the 2012 season at the Dortmund Theatre.

In 2011, she played her first leading role in the feature film Westwind, portraying the East German rower Isabel, whose twin sister falls in love with a West German man during a stay in Hungary. In 2014, she played Sanna in Edward Berger's film Jack, which was part of the 2014 Berlinale. In 2015, she acted in Rosa von Praunheim's film Tough Love.

In 2016, she had a leading role in the film Fado. Since 2017, Heyer has appeared in the Netflix original series Dark as Doris Tiedemann.

In 2019, Heyer was awarded the rare honor of a double nomination at the German Film Awards. She was noted both for the main role of a rape victim in The Most Beautiful Couple and for her supporting role in All About Me. For this, she received the 2019 German Film Award in the Best Female Supporting Role category. In the same year, she received the Bambi Award in the National Actress category for both roles.

Selected filmography

Film

Television