After graduating Seyneb Saleh performed in over 26 theater productions at the
Maxim Gorki Theater, the
Schauspielhaus Graz, the
Volkstheater Wien, the
Schauspiel Hannover and the
Deutsches Theater Berlin. In addition to her theater engagements, she has regularly worked for film, TV and streaming platforms, including the Netflix productions
Mute (2018),
Dogs of Berlin (2018), an Arabic-speaking role in
Deutschland 86, the ZDF series
Jenseits der Spree (2021), the German-Israeli Sky series
Munich Games (2022), the award-winning German anthology series
Uncivilized (2024), the German adaptation of the French cult series:
Call my Agent - Berlin (2025) and feature films such as
Toubab (2021),
Was von der Liebe bleibt (2022) and
Sabbatical (2023). She was introduced to a wider international audience in 2018 in
Duncan Jones neo-noir science fiction film
Mute, in which she played the female lead character Naadirah alongside
Alexander Skarsgård,
Paul Rudd &
Justin Theroux. In 2022 her leading role in the Sky series
Munich Games further gained her much praise from international critics. Her performance in the multilingual, action packed espionage series gained her and
Yousif Sweid nominations for the German Acting Award as Best Duo - performance in 2023. Saleh won her first German Acting Award in 2022 for her performance in
Toubab as Best Supporting Role and a second one followed for her performance in the episode
9/11 of the German anthology series
Uncivilized as Best Episodic Role in 2025. Seyneb Saleh is multilingual and speaks German and English fluently, as well as French and Arabic. Through her intense work with director and puppeteer Nikolaus Habjan she learned how to operate puppets, as she performed in his plays both, as an actress and a puppeteer. == Filmography ==