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Tala Al-Deen was born on August 8, 1989, in Heidelberg. Her older brother is pop singer and music producer Laith Al-Deen (*1972). After graduating from high school, she studied Arabic and American literature in Leipzig, where she gained her first stage experience in the city's independent theater scene. From 2013 to 2017, she pursued acting studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG). In 2016, she was part of the cast of "Club Fiction", which won the Max Reinhardt Prize for Best Ensemble at the Schauspielschultreffen, the annual meeting of German, Austrian and Swiss acting schools. A year later, Al-Deen joined the queer-feminist theater collective Deine Mudda.
In addition to acting, she became the singer and stylophonist for the Graz-based post-pop band "Frau Sammer" in 2016. From 2017 onward, she was also active in the "Tribunal NSU-Komplex auflösen", an initiative organizing tribunals to address racist violence.
Tala Al-Deen received her first theater engagement for the 2018/19 season at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, where she later appeared as Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet" (2022). For the 2023/24 season, she joined the ensemble of the Wiener Schauspielhaus in Vienna.
She made her on-screen debut with a supporting role as a dropout in the dramedy "This Is Where I Meet You" (2019), followed by an ensemble role in Karl Markovics' "Nobadi" (Austria, 2019). In 2021, she played a significant role in the Frankfurt Tatort episode "Wer zögert, ist tot", portraying the assistant and housekeeper of a wealthy corporate lawyer.
Al-Deen landed her first leading role in a feature film in Tom Tykwer’s family drama "Das Licht" ("The Light," 2025), playing a Syrian housekeeper who upends the emotional world of an affluent Berlin family. The film premiered as the opening feature of the Berlinale in February 2025 and was released in German cinemas the following March.