Alexandra Neldel

Acting · Born February 11, 1976 · Berlin, Germany

Alexandra Monika Neldel is a German actress, born February 11, 1976 in Berlin. She is known for playing the role of Lisa Plenske in the series Lisa's Destiny. Born in 1976 in Berlin to Klaus-Eberhard Neldel, Alexandra Neldel graduated from the Realschule in Berlin-Steglitz. She is doing an apprenticeship to be a dental assistant. She also works as a hostess. In 1996, at the age of 20, she was spotted by an agent who asked her to audition for the television series The Rhythm of Life (Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten) and was accepted. From 1996 to 1999, she played the role of Katja Wettstein, where she appeared from episode 1072 until episode 1749. In 1997, She posed for Playboy magazine. But it was in 2005 that she really broke through as an actress, with the role of Lisa Plenske in the series Lisa's Destiny (Verliebt in Berlin). She had to get into the skin of her character using a wig, braces and glasses. She left the series at the end of the first season, with a three-hour wedding special. In the second season, Tim Sander played the main role, but the actress returned in mid-April 2007 to help the production, due to lack of audience. Then she leaves the series permanently. She also made a few appearances in the cinema, notably in the film Autoroute racer, in 2004. In 2006, she obtained one of the main roles in Zodiak, the German version of the French television soap opera Zodiaque. In 2008, she played in the police series Presumé Guilty, the role of a lawyer. For this role she received the Bavarian Television Prize. In 2008, she played the lead role of Lena Berkow, a post-war woman in the 1950s in her brand new three-part TV film Die Rebellin. From 2010 to 2013, Alexandra starred in a trilogical TV film: La Catin under the original name Die Wanderhure, La Châtelaine, (Die Rache der Wanderhure) and The Testament of the Whore, (Das Vermächtnis der Wanderhure) where she played Marie Shärer, medieval film with actor Bert Tischendorf. In 2014, she played Verena Vermuth in the film The Forbidden Woman, based on a novel and true events. Alexandra plays alongside Mido Hamada (vo: Die Verbotene Frau). In 2015 Alexandra starred in numerous TV films: Beauty and the Pilot, Beauty and the Boxer, Doctors Without Borders, as well as in the series Rosa wedding planeuse, where she organizes weddings. In 2017, she starred in Allô pizza alongside actors Moritz Bleibtreu and Lucas Gregorovitz.