Sinha Melina Gierke
- Actress
- Producer
Sinha Melina Gierke is a German actress best known for her role "Raskild" in the Netflix series "The Barbarians" ( 2020). From 2022 on she is playing one of the leads (police officer "Bente Hinrichs") in the series "Großstadtrevier". She also had supporting and minor roles in "The Girl in the Spider's Web" (2018) and" Sense 8, 2nd season" (2016) as well as leads like in German productions "Kanun" (2017) and "Weinberg" (2015) which was nominated at the Deutsche Fernsehpreis 2016 for Best Series and at the Grimme-Preis 2016 in the category fiction/special. Her first feature film "Happy End?!" (2013) where she was playing the lead "Lucca" was shown at over 50 festivals such as Sacramento International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Iris Prize Festival Cardiff, Queer Film Festival Mezipatra Prag, ImageOut: Rochester LGBT Film and Video Festival, Long Beach Q Film Festival, CSD München, Fresno Reel Pride Film Festival. Sinha Melina Gierke is fluent in English.