Peri Baumeister is a German TV and film actress best known in the UK
for her role as "Lady Gisela" in series 2 and 3 of The Last Kingdom
and as Sara in the 2019 Netflix television series Skylines.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 â€" It is the Soul of a Stranger on Earth at the side
of Lars Eidinger. For this cinema debut, she was awarded the Max
Ophüls Prize for Best Young Actress at the Max Ophüls Film Festival
in 2012.. Baumeister then starred in Oliver Ziegenbhigh's bestselling
film Russendisko. For her role in the social drama Mentreu directed
by Hermine Huntgeburth, she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress
at the German Academy of Television Awards. In the Norwegian TV
six-parter Saboteurs in the Ice â€" Operation Heavy Water (Kampen om
tungtvannet) about Hitler's attempts to develop an atomic bomb, she
played the wife of the physicist Werner Heisenberg.In 2018, Baumeister
made the switch to English speaking audiences, starring in series 3
and 4 of The Last Kingdom as Lady Gisela, following this in 2019 with
a regular main role in the Netflix television series Skylines as Sara.
for her role as "Lady Gisela" in series 2 and 3 of The Last Kingdom
and as Sara in the 2019 Netflix television series Skylines.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 â€" It is the Soul of a Stranger on Earth at the side
of Lars Eidinger. For this cinema debut, she was awarded the Max
Ophüls Prize for Best Young Actress at the Max Ophüls Film Festival
in 2012.. Baumeister then starred in Oliver Ziegenbhigh's bestselling
film Russendisko. For her role in the social drama Mentreu directed
by Hermine Huntgeburth, she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress
at the German Academy of Television Awards. In the Norwegian TV
six-parter Saboteurs in the Ice â€" Operation Heavy Water (Kampen om
tungtvannet) about Hitler's attempts to develop an atomic bomb, she
played the wife of the physicist Werner Heisenberg.In 2018, Baumeister
made the switch to English speaking audiences, starring in series 3
and 4 of The Last Kingdom as Lady Gisela, following this in 2019 with
a regular main role in the Netflix television series Skylines as Sara.
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