Sunnyi Melles
German actress Sunnyi Melles has been acting for close to three decades and grew up in a creative family. Her father was a music professor and her mother was an actress. Melles began performing in theatre as a young girl, which brought her to act in the 1978 adaptation of "Steppenwolf" opposite iconic Sweidish actor Max von Sydow. As a young actress, Melles began appearing in various comedies and television shows. Her first breakthrough role was in the Academy Award nominated World War II drama "'38." The plot followed Melles as an actress in love with a Jewish writer in pre-World War II Austria. The following year she starred in the comedy "Paradise" and took the lead role as an unhappily married wife. Though Melles' television and film career started shining brightly, she continued acting in stage productions. She collaborated multiple times with the prolific director Dieter Dorn and starred in many of his productions, including the William Shakespeare play "Troilus and Cressida." Melles received two awards for best young actress and theater artist in 1984. As Melles became a mature actress, she found roles on family television series and films. She played the mother of a rebellious twenty-something in the coming of age film "Snow White."
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Sunnyi Melles
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mr. K | Unknown (Character) | - | 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Springtime in Amsterdam | Sunnyi (Character) | - | 2023 |
71% |
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Triangle of Sadness | Vera (Character) | $4.6M | 2022 |
No Score Yet |
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The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch | Frau Silberzweig (Character) | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pretty Far from Okay | Ursula Finsterwalder (Character) | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Freshly Squeezed | Unknown (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet |
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Woman in Love | Annegret (Character) | - | 2011 |
83% |
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Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen | Richardis' Mother (Character) | $431.9K | 2009 |
73% |
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Effi Briest | Sidonie von Rasenapp (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Disappearance of Giulia | Alessia (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Peasant's Wise Daugther | Königsmutter (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Live Wire: A Day in the Life of an Innocent Kidnapper | Inspektor Sigrid Freesmann (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Snow White | Nico's Mother (Character) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Felix 2: The Toy Rabbit and the Time Machine | Schildkröte Gertrude (Voice) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Olga's Summer | Ella (Character) | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Long Hello and Short Goodbye | Aurelia (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 38 -- Vienna Before the Fall | Carola (Character) | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Drei Gegen Drei | Frau Pelikan (Character) | - | 1985 |
TV
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80% | 77% | Becoming Karl Lagerfeld | Marlene Dietrich (Character) | 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Monogamish | Clara (Character) | 2018-2019 |