Lea Drinda is an award-winning actor.

Lea’s break-out performance was the role of ‘Babsi’ in WE THE CHILDREN FROM BAHNHOF ZOO (Amazon Prime), for which she was nominated for ‘Best Young Actor’ at the 2021 German Screen Actors Awards.

Lea received widespread acclaim for her performance as the lead ‘Charlie’ in BECOMING CHARLIE (ZDFneo). She was awarded the New Faces Award for Germany and ‘Best Leading Actress’ at both Hessian Television Awards and DAFFNEE Awards 2022, alongside nominations at German Television Awards and the prestigious Grimme Prize for ‘Outstanding Acting Performance’ in 2023.

In 2025, Lea stars in Mascha Schilinski’s highly anticipated feature film SOUND OF FALLING. The film had it’s world premiere In Competition at the 78th Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize, and is nominated for ‘Best International Feature Film’ at the upcoming Academy Awards. In the same year, Lea stars as one of the leads  in the upcoming dystopian horror series CITY OF BLOOD for Disney+.

In 2024, Lea starred as the titular ‘Wanda’ in Apple TV’s dark-comedy series WHERE’S WANDA? and as the female lead of the six-part thriller series NIGHT IN PARADISE for Canal+.  

Further credits include starring in Amazon’s fantasy series THE GRYPHON (2023), the environmental thriller series WHO WE ARE for ARD (2023), and ARD’s series BOOM (2024).

Lea is fluent in four languages: English, French, German and Spanish.