Birgit Stauber is an actress, writer and choreographer. Born in Vienna/Austria as a daughter of a doctor, her musical background is led back to her maternal side. Birgit Stauber attended ballet school with 3 years and had her stage debut at an age of 5. She was deeply inspired by Danny Kaye, the old MGM musicals and musicals like Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) or West Side Story (1961). She quited her medicine studies in favor to studying musical theater, one of her first roles was "Little Red Ridinghood" in Into the woods by Stephen Sondheim. Her television debut was also her first leading role, the "Mariandl" in the remake Hofrat Geiger (1996), playing side by side with Christiane Hörbiger and Fritz Karl. In the same year she co-wrote, choreographed and starred in her first musical show. 1998 she won the German Rising Movie Talent Award and went to Los Angeles to study acting. Back to Vienna, she finished her studies for directing musical theater - and moved to Berlin. Her international film debut is Legion of the Dead, also starring Darren Shahlavi. On European television she became widely known with her lead role "Rabe" (english: raven) in the Action Comedy Wilde Engel (2002). The film won the Taurus Stunt Award in 2003, Stauber was nominated Shooting Star for the Austrian TV Award Romy and the TV Series Anges de choc (2003) was sold to France, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Croatia and Hungary. 2005 she founded the film- and theater production company Leyendas and started studying Kathak and Taiko. 2007 she co-wrote and produced the short movie Adieu Bonjour (2008) and played the female lead in an Austrian Crime-Comedy released all over the world. Birgit Stauber is a highly skilled actress, has an ongoing interest in dance and music and has great talent in learning foreign languages, dialects and scripts - recently she learned Devanagari and Nastaliq.
