Christiane Seidl is a Danish-German actress known for her roles in the television series Boardwalk Empire (2011), the web series Godless (2017) and The Queen’s Gambit (2020). In 2018, she became famous for her performance as an Amy Adams impersonator at the 70th Primetime Primetime Primetime Awards.
Wiki/Biography
Christiane Seidel was born on Sunday, April 3, 1988 (age 33 in 2021) in Wichita Falls, Texas, United States. Soon after her parents met at a party, Christiane’s father, who was in the Navy, was stationed in Texas. In an interview, speaking about her childhood, she said,
My dad flew fighter jets, so I was born in Wichita Falls, Texas. I lived the typical military kid life.”
Christiane Seidel as a child with her father
After living in Texas for a while, her family moved first to Germany and then to Denmark. Christiane had a passion for acting from a young age. Her first role was in elementary school, where she played a woman who took Mary and Jesus in in the German version of The Nativity. In high school, she starred in the play The Rocky Horror Picture Show. After this, she spent a semester at a film school in Cape Town, South Africa. Later, after graduating with a degree in Media and Management, she continued on to a two-year program at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York. Although Christiane was a budding actress in New York, her mother pressured her to return to Germany and pursue a stable career instead of being an actress. In an interview, she said,
My mom would ask me, “When are you coming back? When are you going to have a real job? When are you going to use what you’ve learned?”
Finally, in 2010, Christiane Seidel got her first paid job in the TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and began her acting career. Later, in order to improve her acting skills, she took other acting courses such as Michael Chekhov Technique, Alexander Technique, and trained at Fitzmaurice College.
appearance
Height (approximate): 5′ 8″
Hair color: scarlet
Eye color: moss green
Family and Race
Christian Seidl’s mother is Danish and his father is German.
Parents and siblings
Christiane Seidel’s father was a naval pilot and her mother was a florist.
Christiane Seidel and her father
Christiane Seidel and her mother
Relationships, husbands and children
Christiane Seidel is married to director and producer Eddie Shea. In 2016, while filming the TV series Godless in Mexico, Seidel found out she was pregnant. In March 2017, Seidel gave birth to twin sons: Kai Seidel and Carl Seidel.
Christiane Seidel with her husband and children
Profession
television
In 2010, Christiane Seidel made her television screen debut in the American crime drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, where she played the role of Darla Pinnington, a masseuse involved in a kidnapping case. In 2011, she gained attention for her role as Sigrid Müller, a young and naive immigrant woman who later becomes a fierce killer in the period crime drama Boardwalk Empire.
Christiane Seidel, Boardwalk Empire (2011)
After that, she played Jessica in Jay and Pluto (2016) and Caroline in The Royals (2017). In 2019, Seidel played Hannah, the mistress of the male protagonist Bob Fosse, in the TV series Fosse/Verdon.
OTT/Network Series
In 2017, she made her digital screen debut in Netflix’s acclaimed series Godless, in which she played the mysterious, free-spirited German woman Martha Bischoff. Godless received multiple Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Limited Series.
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In 2020, she played Helen Deardorff, the headmistress of Methuen House, a Christian girls’ orphanage, in Netflix’s coming-of-age period drama The Queen’s Gambit.
Christiane Seidel, The Queen’s Gambit (2020)
Movie
In 2008, Christiane Seidel made her film debut in the film “…Around”, in which she played a foreign director at New York University. In 2016, she played Sarah DeSoto, an FBI agent investigating a mysterious triple murder case that resulted in the death of a U.S. congressman’s daughter, in the crime drama film “The Hollow”.
Her other films include The Invisible Life of Thomas Lynch (2009), Schmidt’s Katz (2015), Yellow Fever (2017), and more.
Favorite things
- Actors: Cate Blanchett, Daniel Day-Lewis, Joaquin Phoenix,
- Actresses: Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Jessica Chastain, Amy Adams
- Dessert: Sweet Potato Lasagna
- Restaurant: Amass in Copenhagen
- Network series: Friends (1994), Big Little Lies (2017), Dark (2017), Black Mirror (2011), Game of Thrones (2011)
- Shoe brands: Alexander Wang, Rothy’s
Facts/Trivia
- Christiana was born with red hair and was often bullied and ridiculed by her classmates. In an interview, she said:
It was definitely not easy. As a child I felt ugly and didn’t want to stand out. I was made fun of and called names.”
- In 2015, she became the Producing Director of the Scandinavian American Theatre Company, which has staged several award-winning Scandinavian plays in the United States, such as Beloved (2004) by renowned Swedish playwright Lisa Langseth, Kinder K by Kristofer Blindheim Grønskag, and many others.
- She also starred in the U.S. Off-Broadway premiere of The Silence That Followed, written by Norwegian playwright Arne Lygre.
- At the 70th Primetime Primetime Emmy Awards (2018), various news outlets mistook Christian for Hollywood star Amy Adams.
Amy Adams (left) and Christian Seidel (right)
Christian was reportedly spotted walking the Emmys red carpet in a bright red dress with a heart-shaped neckline and cutout shoulders. But Seidel’s dress and makeup didn’t fool anyone. Her scarlet hair looked almost identical to Adams’ signature crimson.
Christiane Seidel at the 70th Primetime Primetime Primetime Primetime Emmy Awards (2018)
Although the media quickly clarified that the woman in red was not actually Adams, but actress Christiane Seidel, by then Christiane had already gone viral as an Adams impersonator and became one of the most watched moments of the Emmy Awards.
- She has also starred in several short films such as Bordenia (2009), Left Hook (2012), Perfect Nothingness (2016), etc. In 2018, she was nominated for the Best Actress Award at the Brightside Tavern Film Festival for the short film 16 Minutes (2018).
- Christiane is a partner and producer at Red Rope Productions, a Minority and Women Business Enterprise in New York (MWBENY), which has produced several short films including Fraud (2020), Synchronicity (2020), and more.
- Christiane Seidel is a multilingual speaker of four languages: English, German, Danish and basic French.
- She is also good at horseback riding, playing the piano, skiing, skating, tennis and swimming.
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