Biography
Tanja Schleiff (born in 1973 in Erfurt) is a German actress. The daughter of actors Renate Hundertmark and Klaus Schleiff, she trained in acting at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theatre in Leipzig. She began her career on stage, performing notably at the Residenztheater in Munich and the Schauspielhaus in Düsseldorf. In cinema, she has appeared in several notable feature films, such as Oliver Hirschbiegel's Downfall (Der Untergang, 2004), Dominik Graf's The Red Cockatoo (Der rote Kakadu, 2006), and Ralf Westhoff's comedy Shoppen (2006). On television, she has featured in numerous series and television films, notably portraying Countess Esterházy in the historical series Sisi (2021–2024) and Edith in the drama series Charité (2017).
Acted in 50
2020s
- 2026
Fast perfekte Frauen
Doris Ohlmeier
- 2025
Frier und Fünfzig - Am Ende meiner Tage
TV
- 2024
Wäldern
Frau Caspari · 2 episodes
Behringer and the Dead - A Bamberg Mystery
OB Dorothee Staudt · 1 episode
- 2023
- 2021
- 2020
Helene, die wahre Braut
Gertrud
2010s
- 2018
So viel Zeit
Laura
Scheidung für Anfänger
Jana
Die Flaschenpostinsel
Carolin
Ella Schön
TV
- 2017
Der Tod und das Mädchen - Van Leeuwens dritter Fall
Vrouw Blom
The Fox - Traces of Coal Dust
Katja Mehring
- 2015
The Mountain's Whisper
Frau Lüders · 1 episode
Neben der Spur
Silvia Fuchs · 1 episode
- 2014
Schoßgebete
Verkäuferin im Sexshop
Kommissarin Heller
Iris Kuhn · 1 episode
Heiter bis tödlich: Koslowski & Haferkamp
Erika Hauffmann · 1 episode
- 2011
- 2010
Klimawechsel
TV
Mein Leben im Off
Lisa Krüger
2000s
- 2009
- 2008
Selbstgespräche
Frau Erhardt
- 2007
The Vow
Anna Katharina Emmerick
Shoppen
Katharina
- 2006
Unter anderen Umständen
Katharina Berg · 1 episode
The Red Cockatoo
Rena
- 2005
- 2004
- 2003
- 2002
Under Suspicion
Julia Danzas · 1 episode
- 2001
