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Antonia Bill was born in Munich in 1988 and grew up in the Franconian village of Effeltrich. She gained her first acting experience as a child, performing regularly with her parents and sister at the Erlangen cabaret theater Fifty-Fifty. From 2008 to 2012, she trained at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. During her studies, she already appeared on stage at the Deutsches Theater Berlin and the Berliner Ensemble. In 2011, accompanied on the piano by Rainer Bielfeldt, she won 1st prize for chanson at the Bundesgesangswettbewerb Berlin, a national singing competition. Antonia Bill also made her debut as a film actress in 2011: with a leading role in Edgar Reitz's "Die andere Heimat - Chronik einer Sehnsucht" ("Home from Home - Chronicle of a Vision"), which began filming in 2011 but was not released until 2013. For her performance in this film, she was nominated for Best Actress at the German Film Critics' Award.
Nevertheless, theater remained her main field of activity for the time being: after being discovered by Claus Peymann in 2011 and hired by the Berliner Ensemble, she held a permanent position there from 2012 to 2017 after graduating. She worked with directors Leander Haußmann, Claus Peymann, Robert Wilson, Katharina Thalbach and Luc Bondy, and was awarded the Daphne Prize of the Theatergemeinde Berlin for her work in 2015. For her solo program "Das kunstseidene Mädchen" by Irmgard Keun (developed with Michal Grabowski, Carsten Golbeck and Rainer Bielfeldt), she received the Audience Award at the Week of Young Actors in Bensheim in 2016.
From 2015, Bill also appeared regularly in front of the camera, mainly for television productions. Thus, she had an episode lead role in the comedy series "Der Tatortreiniger" (2015), was part of the ensemble of the "Tatort" episode "Der wüste Gobi" (2017) in a supporting role. In 2017, she began working as a freelance actress, with engagements at the Volksbühne Berlin, the Berliner Ensemble and the Deutsches Theater Berlin, among others.
On television, she took on leading and supporting roles in episodes of series such as "Letzte Spur Berlin," "Das Institut, Oase des Scheiterns," "SOKO Köln" and "Großstadtrevier." She had a minor feature film role as a nurse in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's "Werk ohne Autor" ("Never Look Away", 2018). In the psychodrama "Ein Schritt zu viel" (2020) she was the daughter of Nicki von Tempelhoff's main character, and in the TV film "Rosamunde Pilcher - Im siebten Himmel" (2021) she played the lead role of a young British vicar who is falling in love.
As a theater actress, she was seen at the Berlin Volksbühne in Leander Haußmann's "Haußmanns Staatssicherheittheater" (2018) and at the Thalia Theater in Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" (2018) and in Kleist's "Amphitryon" (2019), among others.
Under the direction of Haußmann, with whom she had already worked several times at different theaters, Antonia Bill played a leading role in "Stasikomödie" ("A Stasi Comedy", 2021), as the wife of the main character in her younger years.