Lea van Acken (born 20 February 1999) is a German actress.
Career Lea van Acken had her first appearance on stage at the Karl May Festival in Bad Segeberg in 2011. She was the leading actress in the 2014 drama film Stations of the Cross directed by Dietrich Brüggemann. In this film, which was awarded with a Silver Bear at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival, she played a Catholic girl in a religiously fanatic family. One year later, she played a minor role in the fifth season of the series Homeland, which was set in Germany. She played Holocaust victim Anne Frank in the 2016 German production Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank. Van Acken also appears in the German Netflix series Dark as Silja Tiedemann.
Filmography + Film Year Title Role Notes Ref. 2014 Stations of the Cross Maria2015Teenager 2016 Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank Anne Frank2016SusannaTV movie2016Spreewaldkrimi - Spiel mit dem TodSvenja HeinzeTV movie2017Adea/Alladin2017Stormwind 3Sam 2017 Fack ju Göhte 3 Amrei 2018Slender Man Michelle2019AbikalypseHannah2022Das PrivilegLena
+ Television Year Title Role Notes Ref. 2015 Homeland Ayla Episode: "The Tradition of Hospitality" 2017–2019 Dark Silja Tiedemann 8 episodes2020SløbornElla7 episodes
References
External links Profile at the agency Players