Peri Baumeister (born 1986) is a German TV and film actress best known in the UK for her role as Lady Gisela in series two and three of The Last Kingdom (2018) and as Sara in the 2019 Netflix television series Skylines and the vampire plane horror movie Blood Red Sky in 2021.
Career Peri Baumeister is the daughter of the actor Edwin Noel-Baumeister and the cultural manager Judith Schäfer-Schuller. Her older half-sister Muriel Baumeister is also an actress. From 2007 to 2011, Peri Baumeister studied acting at the August Everding Prinzregententheater (Bavarian Theatre Academy) in Munich. During this time she appeared in stage productions of Lars von Trier's Dogville and Manderlay under the direction of Jochen Schölch at the Metropol-Theater (Munich). In her third year of study she received the leading role of Grete Trakl in the movie Tabu – It is the Soul of a Stranger on Earth at the side of Lars Eidinger. It was her cinematic debut, and she was awarded the prize for Best Young Actress at the Max Ophüls Film Festival in 2012. Baumeister then starred in Oliver Ziegenbalg's bestselling film Russian Disco. For her role in the social drama directed by Hermine Huntgeburth, she was nominated Best Supporting Actress at the German Academy of Television Awards. In the Norwegian TV six-parter The Heavy Water War about Hitler's attempts to develop an atomic bomb, she played the wife of physicist Werner Heisenberg.
In 2017, Baumeister made the switch to English-speaking audiences, starring in series two and three of The Last Kingdom as Lady Gisela, following this in 2019 with a regular main role in the Netflix television series Skylines as Sara.
In 2021, Baumeister played the protagonist in the Peter Thorwarth directed Netflix vampire horror film Blood Red Sky.
Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 2011 Tabu: The Soul Is a Stranger on Earth Grete / Sister 2012 Russian Disco Olga 2013 Wetlands Schwester Valerie 2014 Irre sind männlich (en.Therapy Crashers) Bernadette Nina TV film 2016 Unsere Zeit ist jetzt (English: Our Time is Now) Vanessa 2018 Elisabeth Hauptmann 2019 Péitruss Lara Luxembourgish–Dutch co-production 2021 Blood Red Sky Nadja British–German co-production 2024 Winners Miss Abbel
Television Year Title Role Notes 2012 Tatort Roswitha Kranz Episode: "Borowski und der stille Gast"2015 The Heavy Water War Elisabeth Heisenberg Main cast (miniseries) Der Kriminalist Carolin Naters Episode: "Treu bis in den Tod" Blochin: Die Lebenden und die Toten (The Living and the Dead) Freddy Geissler Episode: "2. Kapitel"2016 Ein starkes Team Nathalie Brombach Episode: "Nathalie" Die Chefin Jessica Kempf Episode: "Abrechnung" 2017–2018 The Last Kingdom Lady Gisela Main cast (Season 2–3) 2019 Skylines Sara 6 episodes 2022 Neuland Marie Klein 6 episodes2023Schlafende HundeLenni Atlas6 episodes 2024 The Signal Paula 4 episodes
Awards and nominations Year Category Award Film Result 2014 Best Supporting Actress German Television Academy Award A Faithful Husband 2015 Best German Actress Award Therapy Crashers
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Gisela – Peri Baumeister