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Kenda Hmeidan was born on September 13, 1992, in Damascus, Syria, where she studied acting at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts. After graduating in 2015, she performed in several stage productions in Syria and Beirut (Lebanon) and attended workshops at the "Theater Laboratory" in Damascus.
In 2016, due to the war, she left her homeland and fled to Germany, where she joined the "Exil Ensemble" of the Maxim-Gorki-Theater in Berlin. From 2016 to 2024, she was a permanent member of the Gorki Ensemble, performing in plays such as "Hamlet" (2020) and "Mother Courage and Her Children" (2022). In February 2022, a piece premiered based on Hmeidan’s idea, developed from a book by Syrian author Rasha Abbas: "A Summary of Everything That Was."
Kenda Hmeidan made her screen debut in 2021 in Josephine Frydetzki's "Tage mit Naadirah," playing the daughter of a Qatari prince who forms a special bond with her German chauffeur in Berlin. The film, however, was only released in theaters in 2024. Prior to that, she appeared in the six-part series "Liberame – After the Storm" (2022) as a Syrian refugee attempting to cope with the drowning death of her daughter.
Hmeidan also had a leading role in Burhan Qurbani's 2025 feature film "Kein Tier. So Wild." (DE/PL), a gangster film adaptation of Shakespeare's "Richard III." In the film, she plays the daughter of a notorious criminal who stops at nothing to rise to the top of the Berlin underworld after her father’s death. The film had its world premiere at the Berlinale 2025 in the Berlinale Special section and is set to be released in theaters in May 2025.