Biography

Amanda Babaei Vieira is an actor and artist based in Hamburg. She was born in Hildesheim to parents from Rio de Janeiro and Sari in Iran. Among others she played at Volksbühne Berlin, Maxim Gorki Theater, Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Wiener Festwochen, Kampnagel and the New European Theatre Festival Saint Petersburg. She is starring in the upcoming feature film Identitti and played her first international lead in the Canadian movie Maya & Samar. As co-founder of the theatre collective SV Szlachta, she has been creating action art performances since 2018. She co-authored several plays, most recently with the feminist collective Glossy Pain. A long-standing collaboration connects her with the acclaimed art group SIGNA, receiving the Nestroy Prize and an invitation to Theatertreffen. In 2024, she was awarded the Ulrich Wildgruber Prize. For a brief moment in time she had a drag band called The Nana Jamón Experience.