Biography
Nilam Farooq (born 26 September 1989) is a German actress. She has appeared in several television series, films, and commercials. She won the best actress Jupiter Award (2019) and the Bavarian Film Awards (2020) for movies Heilstätten and Contra. Nilam Farooq is the daughter of a Pakistani father and a Polish mother, and she has a younger brother. She was born in Berlin and grew up in the Wilmersdorf district, where she attended the local Goethe-Gymnasium and completed her Abitur. Farooq displayed an early interest in acting and began her acting career at age 14. In addition to German, she is fluent in Polish and English, and has language credentials in Latin and Ancient Greek.In 2006 Farooq had her first guest and supporting roles as an actress on television and short films. She started appearing in commercials in the late 2000s and since the beginning of the 2010s, took some roles as a voice actress.
From 2013 to 2019 Farooq was regularly seen in the television series Leipzig Homicide as Commissioner Olivia Fareedi.She has since played roles in various TV films and series, for example in Tatort: Roomservice or Polizeiruf 110: Grenzgänger.
Since 2015 she has had a number of feature-length film roles, including My Blind Date with Life, Sweethearts by Karoline Herfurth, the horror film Heilstätten, and David Dietl's Rate Your Date.For her portrayal of Betty in Heilstätten, she won the 2019 Jupiter Award for Best Actress.
Filmography
all 39
Movies 21
TV Shows 18
self 11
The Signal (2024)
Home Sweet Home - Where Evil Lives (2024)
791 km (2023)
Early Birds (2023)
Trauzeugen (2023)
Das große Menschenraten (2023)
Wild Heart (2023)
That's My Jam mit Bill & Tom Kaulitz (2023)
Manta, Manta: Legacy (2023)
Bump (2022)
Freibad (2022)
Locked in Society (2022)
The Four of Us (2021)
The Witnesses (2021)
Wer stiehlt mir die Show? (2021)
Contra (2020)
Joko & Klaas gegen ProSieben (2019)
Rate Your Date (2019)
Sweethearts (2019)
Das Duell um die Welt – Team Joko gegen Team Klaas (2018)
Fette Kumpelz (2018)
Verpiss Dich, Schneewittchen (2018)
Late Night Berlin (2018)
Haunted Hospital: Heilstatten (2018)
My Blind Date with Life (2017)
Time Heroes (2016)
NSU German History X (2016)
Quizduell-Olymp (2015)
Wer weiß denn sowas? (2015)
Quizduell (2014)
Letters from Santiago (2014)
Das Duell um die Welt (2012)
Der Passagier (2012)
Danni Lowinski (2010)
Schlag den Star (2009)
Stiller Frühling (2008)
Kommissar Stolberg (2006)
SOKO Leipzig (2001)
Leute heute (1997)
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GenderFemale
Birthday1989-09-26 (34 years old)
Birth PlaceBerlin, Germany
CitizenshipsGermany
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