Lea van Acken had her first appearance on stage at the Karl May Festival in Bad Segeberg in 2011 . She was the leading actress in the 2014 drama film '' Stations of the Cross '' directed by Dietrich Brüggemann . In this film , which was awarded with a Silver Bear at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival , she played a Catholic girl in a religiously fanatic family . One year later , she played a minor role in the fifth season of the series '' Homeland '' , which was set in Germany . In the 2016 German production '' Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank '' , a film about the Holocaust victim Anne Frank , who wrote the famous diary , Lea van Acken is the leading actress . She also appears in the German Netflix series Dark , where she plays as Silja
64th Berlin International Film Festival
64th Berlin International Film Festival
Lea van Acken