Aylin Tezel is a German actress known for Almanya - Welcome to Germany (Berlinale Competition 2011) and Breaking Horizons (2012) for which she received the Best Actress Award at the Torino Film Festival and the German Actors' Award for Best Upcoming Actress. On television she is known for her central performance as Cinderella in Aschenputtel (2011), directed by Uwe Janson, and for her series lead regular role as young cop Nora Dalay in Germany's most popular police drama Tatort.She played lead role Heidi in Marco Kreuzpaintner's film Coming In (2014) for Warner Bros and received the German Actors Award 2015 for Best Actress in a comedic role for her performance in Kleine Schiffe. Her following work included the lead role in Christof Wahl's romantic comedy Macho Man (2015) and the lead role of Sabine alongside Tadhg Murphy in Robert Manson's Irish Indie movie Lost in the Living (2015).Most recently Aylin filmed 6 episodes for the Canadian CBC Spy Drama Series X Company as Jewish Polish Resistance Fighter Zosia alongside Warren Brown and Evelyne Brochu. Her character first shows up in season 3 of the World War II drama series which premiered in January 2017.Besides her acting studies at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin Aylin Tezel studied dance and choreography in Germany's North Rhine-Westphalien city Bielefeld. She also directed the documentary Trust me it works (2011) about the British choreographer Royston Maldoom as well as the short film Tanz mit ihr (2013,Inhale), which premiered at the Cork Film Festival 2013, the Berlin and Beyond Film Festival in San Francisco (2014) and aired on German- French TV Channel ARTE in June 2015. Show less «