Mandala Tayde


Mandala Tayde is an award-winning German actress and model who works in Italy and Germany.

Career

Tayde was raised in Frankfurt by German-Indian parents. She started a modeling career at 13, with a campaign for beauty products. After intensive drama education at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, she moved to Italy in 1997, where she played in the movie Fireworks which earned 36 million euros. She also acted in the praised Indian film, Dil Chahta Hai.
Tayde became famous in Germany for her lead role of Aylin in the TV film Meine verrückte türkische Hochzeit, where she acted with Florian David Fitz. This role earned her an Adolf Grimme Award in 2007. At the end of the 1990s she returned to German television in the lead role of the Arabian princess Amina in the TV story in three parts Desert of Fire, a French-Italian-German coproduction. In addition, she played alongside Kabir Bedi in The Return of Sandokan.

Filmography (Partial)

She has a son named Leon.