Deleila Piasko (born 2 May 1991) is a Swiss actress.
Early life
Piasko was born into a Jewish family on 2 May 1991.[1] From Zürich, the eldest of three children born to a physicist father and dancer mother. She moved to Berlin aged 20 where she attended the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts.[2]
After graduating from Berlin's Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin she had stage roles in Zürich, Frankfurt and Dresden. In 2019, she joined the Burgtheater in Vienna under director Martin Kušej.[3] In November 2023, it was announced that she would take on the role of Buhlschaft in Jedermann at the 2024 Salzburg Festival alongside Philipp Hochmair.[4]
Film and television
In 2018 she appeared in an adaptation of the Charlotte Link novel Im Tal des Fuchses, produced by Degeto Film.[5] Piasko appears in a 2021 adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel Confessions of Felix Krull entitled Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull, in which she played Zouzou Kuckuck.[6] She also appears in Leander Haußmann ensemble piece Stasi.[7]
Piasko plays the based on real-life character Lisa Fittko in the Netflix French resistance series Transatlantic.[8][9] Her performance was singled out by Daniel Fienberg in The Hollywood Reporter for bringing life to her character.[10] In 2023, she had the lead role in the six-part German-language series Der Schatten.[11] That year she started filming a six-part political thriller called Turmschatten for Paramount+.[12] She was also cast in the title role in Lili from Thomas Imbach, an adaptation of Fräulein Else by Arthur Schnitzler, in which she will be appearing alongside Milan Peschel.[13]
