Christiane Seidel is an American born, German/Danish actor and producer. She will be starring in the upcoming Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit (2020). Previously, she played the role of Martha in Godless (2017) and most recently the role of Hannah (Sam Rockwell’s love interest) in Fosse/Verdon (2019) on FX.
Christiane is also widely known for her role of Sigrid Mueller opposite Michael Shannon on Boardwalk Empire (2010) as the murderous nanny-turned-wife. She played the female lead FBI Agent DeSoto in the noir-feature film The Hollow (2016) produced by Lisa Bruce (The Theory of Everything) as well as in several German television feature films, most recently Dating Alarm (2016).
She’s a partner and producer at Red Rope Productions (a certified minority business enterprise of New York). She has produced several short films that have screened at Academy Qualifying and international film festivals with numerous wins and nominations in multiple categories. She served as the Producing Director for the Scandinavian American Theater Company that presents award-winning Scandinavian theater works in the US. Christiane is a native English, German and Danish speaker and resides with her husband and twins in Brooklyn, NY.
