Biography

Rauand Taleb

Born in 1992 in Sulaimanyia in the area of the autonomous region of Kurdistan and fled to Germany with his family in 1998, Rauand Taleb began training at the acting school in Nuremberg at the age of 18.

Even while there, he made his first appearances in Philipp Kadelbach's "Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter (2013)," among others, which won an international Emmy Award. Engagements for ZDF, BR, SRF, WDR, SAT1, as well as numerous appearances in short films followed. In 2015, Rauand Taleb was in front of the camera for the episode lead role as a young Syrian refugee in Tatort: Schutzlos and for the ZDF series Die Spezialisten - Im Namen der Opfer. At the end of 2018, the German public broadcaster ARD aired the Frankfurt Tatort, in which Rauand played an important role.

In 2015/2016, Rauand Taleb was on stage for the Broadway play "Geächtet (Disgraced)" by Ayad Akhtar at the Berlin Theater am Kurfürstendamm. For the 2017/2018 season, the Deutsche Oper Berlin signed him. For the play "The Merchant of Venice" he played the young boy Tadzio. In addition to his work as an actor, he is also involved in directing and staging and has already received various awards for his short films.

In 2014, he was also a jury member of the "German Human Rights Film Award" in Nuremberg.

His biggest success to date was in 4 Blocks. A hit series produced by TNT series, which received more than 14 times awards in 2017. In it, he embodies the continuous role Zeki.
- IMDb mini biography by: Rauand Taleb