Sunnyi Melles

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2022
Ruben Ostlund’s ‘Triangle of Sadness’ Wins Palme d’Or at 2022 Cannes Film Festival

2022
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS
Internationale Filmfestspiele in Cannes im Wettbewerb für die goldene Palme
Film, GBR/SWE / Regie/Drehbuch: Ruben Östlund
Rolle: Vera mit starring Woody Harrelson Eric Hemendorff Plattformproduktion

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Swiss film and theater actress Sunnyi Melles was born in Luxembourg to Hungarian
parents. Her father, Carl Melles, was a conductor and her mother Judith Rohonczy
an actress. After her parents emigrated from Budapest, Sunnyi Melles grew up in
Switzerland, where she appeared on stage at the age of ten. At the age of 14 she got
her first film role: Rosa, alongside Max von Sydow in the feature film
“Der Steppenwolf,” directed by Fred Haines.

She completed her acting training at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich.

Sunnyi Melles in her film and TV roles

2022
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS
Cannes International Film Festival in competition for the Palme d’Or
Film, GBR/SWE / Director/Screenplay: Ruben Östlund
Role: Vera co-starring Woody Harrelson
Eric Hemendorff Platform Production

2021
VIENNA BLOOD The Melancholy Countess
TV crime series GBR / BBC2/ORF/ZDF Director: Robert Dornhelm
Role: Melancholy Countess co-starring Matthew Bread

2021/22
MORD UNTER MISTELN
TV / GER/ Bavarian Christmas “Tatort” 2022 Director: Jobst Oetzmann
Role: Simone and Lady Bantam Countess of Cumberledge co-starring
Miroslav Nemec /Udo Wachtveitl

2020
ENFANT TERRIBLE
Film DE/ Director and screenplay: Oskar Roehler
Role: Rosel Zech co-starring Oliver Masucci
2021 nominated for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival

2019
DAS LETZTE PROBLEM
TV/AUT/ Austrian rural thriller / ORF / Director: Karl Markovics
Script: Michael Kehlmann
Role: Karin Sessler co-starring Karl Markovics
Production: Superfilm

2019
ELISABETH-KAISERIN AUF DER FLUCHT
TV/ARTE/ORF/ZDF/ Docudrama Director: Stefan Ludwig
Role: Sisi co-starring Alexander Fennon

2018
Wolkenbruch
FILM /CHE / Director Michael Steiner
Role: Frau Silberzweig co-starring Joel Basman
2019 Zurich – Swiss Film Festival Award/Nomination for
Best Supporting Actress

2018
SAFARI- MATCH ME If YOU CAN
FILM / GER / Director: Richard Gaul
Role: Aurelie co-starring Justus von Dohányi
Production: Rat Pack

2018
DER KAISERSTURZ
TV /ARTE /ZDF / Docudrama Director: Christoph Röhl
Script: Prof. Lothar Machtan
Role: last German Empress Auguste Viktoria co-starring
Sylvester Groth

2013
HOTEL ADLON. EINE FAMILIENSAGA
TV /GER/ ZDF/ 3- Teiler Director: Uli Edel
Role: Ottilie Schadt
Production: MOOVIE
2013 Nomination ROMY Award “Best Actress”

2015
ALTES GELD
TV /AUT/ 8 episodes Directed and written by David Schalko
Role: Liliane co-starring Udo Kier
Production: Superfilm
2016 Nomination ROMY Award “Best Actress”
2014
THE TEAM
TV /DNK/BEL/GER/ 4 police episodes Director: Kathrine
Windfeld/Kasper Gaardsoe
Role: Jazz singer Iris Gabler co-starring Lars Mikkelsen

2004
HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE / DAS WANDELNDE SCHLOSS
Film /JPN /Animated Feature Film / Director and screenplay:
Hayao Miyazaki
Role: German dubbing voice: young and old Sophie
Studio: Ghibli
2006 Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature Film

2009
GIULIAS VERSCHWINDEN
Film /CHE / Director: Christoph Schaub
Role: Alessia co-starring Bruno Ganz
2009 Locarno International Film Festival Audience Award
2009 Zurich Film Award

1992
MAIGRET
TV / FRA /BEL/CHE/ FR2 Crime series “La nuit du Carrefour”
Director: Alain Tasma
Role: Elise co-starring Bruno Cremer

1988
CINEMA LES PIANOS DE BERLIN
TV /FRA / TF1 Episode/ Director: Philippe Lefebvre
Role: Caroline co-starring Alain Delon

1986
38 – AUCH DAS WAR WIEN
Film /AUT/ Director: Wolfgang Glück
Role: Carola co-starring Tobias Engel
1987 Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film

OPERA – CONCERT – BALET – RECITATION

2022
ALICE – Philip Glass
Ballet / World premiere
FRA/ medici.TV
Opéra du Rhin Strasbourg / Mulhouse
Choreography: Amir Hosseinpour und Jonathan Lunn
Conductor: Karen Kamensek
Video: David Haneke
Role: Alice and Poet Lewis Carroll

2019
KADDISH – Leonard Bernstein
Lviv Mozart Festival in Brody (Ukraine)
Memorial concert in honor of Joseph Roth in the ruins of
the synagogue
LVIV- Orchestra and Choirs and Children’s Choir
Conductor: Oksana Lyniv
Role: Narrator

2015
ODE TO NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE – Arnold Schönberg
Opéra Nice
Nice Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Philip Augin
Role: Narrator

2015/ 2018
GURRELIEDER – Arnold Schönberg
Oper TV / NLD / Live Recording Dutch National Opera & Ballet
in Amsterdam Rolle: Narrotor Regie: Regie: Pierre Audi
Dirigent: Marc Albrech

1998
DIE BERNAUERIN – Carl Orff
Vienna State Opera
Director: Thomas Langhoff
Conductor: Kirill Petrenko
Role: Bernauerin

2008
ROMEO UND JULIA – Sergei Prokofiev
Ballet / GER / Bayerisches Staatsballett München
Choreographer: John Cranko
Role (Dancer): Lady Capulet

1991
MOZART’S BÄSLE LETTERS – Wolfang Amadeus Mozart
Salzburg Festival / ORF TV
Director: Georges Tabori
Role: Bäsle

Hybrid Recitation

2020-2022
NELLY SACHS
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER
JOSEPH ROTH
Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts Munich
Sunnyi Melles /Leonille Wittgenstein
Music and Sound: Constantin Wittgenstein
Text version: Alexander Wiegold
Production: Sunnyi Melles / VIMEO

2021
HOTEL BUDAPEST BERLIN – Thomas Sparr
Buchhandlung Geistesblüten Berlin
Thomas Sparr and Sunnyi Melles

THEATER

2021
LUTHER – Lukas Bärfuss / World premiere
GER / Theaterfestival Nibelungenfestspiele Worms
Artistic director: Nico Hofmann
Director: Ildiko Gáspár
Role: Pope Leo. X

2011
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT SEX COMEDY
THEATER /AUT/ Burgtheater Wien
Director: Matthias Hartmann
Role: Ariel co-starring Michael Maertens

2012
DER IGNORANT UND DER WAHNSINNIGE – Tomas Bernhardt
Theater /AUT/ Burgtheater Wien
Director: Jan Bosse
Role: Queen of the night co-starring Peter Simonischek

2010
PHÄDRA – Jean Babstine Racine
Salzburg Festival / Burgtheater Wien
Director: Matthias Hartmann
Rolle: Phädra co-starring Paulus Manker

2009
IMMANUEL KANT – Thomas Bernhardt
Theater /CHE / Schauspielhaus Zürich
Director: Matthias Hartmann
Role: Millionärrin

2007
DER GOTT DES GEMETZELS – Yasmina Reza
Theater / DEU / Residenztheater München
Director: Dieter Dorn
Role: Annette

2005
GESCHICHTEN AUS DEM WIENERWALD – Ödön von Horvath
Salzburg Festival / Residenztheater München
Director: Barbara Frey
Role: Valerie
2005 Austrian NESTROY- Theater Award “Best Actress”

2004
MAß FÜR MAß – William Shakespeare
Theater /DEU/ Residenztheater München
Director: Dieter Dorn
Rolle: Isabelle

2003

ONKEL WANJA – Anton Tschechow
Theater /DEU/ Residenztheater / TV 3sat
Director: Barbara Frey
Role: Jelena
Theater Heute Award “Actress of the year”
Berliner Theatertreffen

1990–1993
JEDERMANN – Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Salzburg Festival
Director: Gernot Friedel
Role: Buhlschaft co-starring Helmut Lohner

1991
WENN WIR TOTEN ERWACHEN – Henrik Ibsen
Theater / GER / Münchener Kammerspiele
Director: Peter Zadek
Role: Maja co-starring Ulrich Wildgruber

1985
LEONARDO HAT’S GEWUSST – Roland Topor
Theater / GER/ Münchener Kammerspiele
Director: Roland Topor
Role: Swedish Au-Pair

1988
FAUST – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Theater / GER / Münchener Kammerspiele
Director: Dieter Dorn
Role: Gretchen co-starring Helmut Griem
Guest appearance Tokyo, Nissan theater
Berliner Theatertreffen
DVD Bavaria Studio

1987
TROILUS UND CRESSIDA – William Shakespeare
Theater / GER / Regie: Dieter Dorn Rolle: Cressida
“Schauspielerin des Jahres” von Theater Heute
Einladung Berliner Theatertreffen Verfilmung DVD

1984
EMILIA GALOTTI von Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Theater / GER / Münchener Kammerspiele
Director: Thomas Langhoff
Role: Emilia
DVD Bavariastudio

1983
Othello – William Shakespeare
Theater / AUT Burgtheater Wien
Director: Hans Lietzau
Role: Desdemona

Membership /Award
Holder of the Bavarian Order of Merit
Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich
Member of the European, Swiss and Austrian Film Academies
Oscar nomination: Best Foreign Film “38 – Auch das war Wien “
2 times “Actress of the Year” Theater Heute
Austrian Theater NESTROY-Award “Best Actress”
“CHAPLINSCHUH” Newcomer Award of the German Actor Award (Federal Association of Directors)
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.She has received the The Bavarian Order of Merit, is Member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, the prize of the German Director’s Association and the Chaplin Shoe for Best Actress .

Sunnyi Melles is a member of the Swiss Academy, the Austrian Film Academy, European Academy

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Sunnyi Melles has won ‘Best Actress of the Year’ twice by the Theater Today critics award. (Theater Heute) She has also won ‘Best Actress’ by Austria’s top theatre acting award the Nestroy. In addition she has been nominated twice as ‘Most popular actress’ in the ROMY Award. Taking on the responsibility of Gustaf and Martin Benrath, she is the bearer of the “Satyr buttons”, which is the Goethe’s Tunic Award for the most important actress of the day.