Scene from Vamos a la playa (2022)

Alternate Names: Maya Sara Unger, Maya Sarah Unger

Physical Characteristics: N/A

First Appearances:

• L'Animale (2018) as Evita

Most Important Roles:

• Der weiße Kobold (2023) as Ema
• Strangers in the Night (2024) as Lola
• Vamos a la Playa (2023) as Judith
• Persona non grata (2024) as Sara
• Wer wir einmal sein wollten (2023) as Clara
• Schrille Nacht (2022) as Pepi
• Life Between the Exit Signs (2019) as
• Heart It Races (2021) as Magda
• Mord in Wien - Der letzte Bissen (2025) as
• Islands (2025) as Pauline

Career Highlights:

• Der weiße Kobold (2023)
• Strangers in the Night (2024)
• Vamos a la Playa (2023)
• Persona non grata (2024)
• Wer wir einmal sein wollten (2023)
• Schrille Nacht (2022)
• Life Between the Exit Signs (2019)
• Heart It Races (2021)
• Mord in Wien - Der letzte Bissen (2025)
• Islands (2025)

Awards:

• Nominated for 1 Romy - Favorite Female Shooting Star (Beliebtester weiblicher Shooting Star) (2021)
• Nominated for 1 Undine Award - Best Debut, Female - Film (Beste Filmdebütantin) (2006)
• Won New Berlin Film Award - Best Actor (2023)

Maya Unger, born in Vienna in 1995, is an Austrian actress recognized for her versatile performances across film, television, and theatre. The daughter of director and screenwriter Mirjam Unger and director/producer Antonin Svoboda, she made her acting debut at the age of nine in the film Spiele Leben (2005).

Since then, she has built a substantial career in both German-language and international productions. Her notable credits include roles in the feature films L'Animale (2018), Vamos a la playa (2022), and the miniseries Kafka (2024), as well as the Netflix crime series Crooks (2024), where she played Nina Oblomow. She has also appeared in various TV series such as Tatort and Walking on Sunshine, and is set to join the Steirerkrimi series as an investigator in 2025. Unger has received nominations and awards for her acting performances, including nominations for the Jupiter Award and the Austrian Romy award.

First Appearances:

• Way to Hell (2014) as

Most Important Roles:

• Fossil (2024) as Anja
• Way to Hell (2014) as
• Vamos a la Playa (2023) as Katharina
• Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents (2015) as Dora
• Rough Road Ahead (2015) as Ruby
• Rock ‘n’ Roll Ringo (2024) as Tamara
• The Invisibles (2017) as Ellen Lewinsky
• Away You Go (2018) as Charlie
• Electric Girl (2019) as Mia
• Verliebt in Kroatien (2020) as Jana Raninger

Career Highlights:

• Fossil (2024)
• Way to Hell (2014)
• Vamos a la Playa (2023)
• Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents (2015)
• Rough Road Ahead (2015)
• Rock ‘n’ Roll Ringo (2024)
• The Invisibles (2017)
• Away You Go (2018)
• Electric Girl (2019)
• Verliebt in Kroatien (2020)

Awards:

• Nominated for 1 German Film Critics Award - Best Actress (Beste Darstellerin) (2016)
• Won Seymour Cassel Award (2014)
• Won New Faces Award - Actress (2015)
• Won New Berlin Film Award - Best Actor (2023)
• Won DSP Award - Best Young Actor (Bester Nachwuchsdarsteller) (2015)

Victoria Schulz is a German actress, director, and writer, born in Berlin in 1990. She trained as an actress at the Film University Babelsberg "Konrad Wolf" in Potsdam-Babelsberg, where she also studied film directing.

Schulz gained recognition for her leading roles in feature films such as Rough Road Ahead (Von jetzt an kein Zurück, 2014) and Dora or the Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents (Dora oder die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern, 2015). Her performances earned her several accolades, including the Max Ophüls Prize for Best Young Actress and the New Faces Award in 2015, and a nomination for the German Film Critics Award.

Her work has been featured at major film festivals, and in 2018, she starred in Rückenwind von vorn, which was the opening film of the German series at the Berlinale. In 2022, she played the leading role of Katharina in the road movie Vamos a la playa, which premiered at the Zurich Film Festival. In addition to her acting career, Schulz works as a director and writer; her short films have won "Best Short Film" awards at the Achtung Berlin Film Festival, and she has directed episodes for the ZDFtivi youth series ECHT.