Mandala Tayde

Mandala Tayde (born 27 April 1975) is a German actress and model who works in Italy and Germany.[1]

Career

Tayde was born and raised in Frankfurt by German-Indian parents. She started a modeling career at 13, with a campaign for beauty products. After intensive drama education at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, she moved to Italy in 1997,[2] where she played in the movie Fireworks which earned 36 million euros. She also acted in the praised Indian film, Dil Chahta Hai.

Tayde became famous in Germany for her lead role of Aylin in the TV film Kiss me Kismet, where she acted with Florian David Fitz. This role earned her an Adolf Grimme Award in 2007.[3] At the end of the 1990s she returned to German television in the lead role of the Arabian princess Amina in the TV story in three parts Desert of Fire,[4] a French-Italian-German coproduction. In addition, she played alongside Kabir Bedi in The Return of Sandokan.

Selected filmography

Other appearances (magazines/interviews)
  • 1998: PlayBoy German Dezember 1998 edition (magazine)

Personal life

She has a son named Leon.[5]

References
  1. AGENTUR UTE NICOLAI Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Mandala Tayde". Retrieved 2008-08-28.
  3. Adolf Grimme Award 2007 Archived 2011-07-03 at the Wayback Machine
  4. "Mediaset Distribution - Tv movies - Desert of fire". Archived from the original on 2012-03-22. Retrieved 2011-07-24.
  5. Il babywearing fa "impazzire" le mamme vip! Qui mamme


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