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Leni Lijsje Wesselman was born in Munich, Germany. After school she studied art and multimedia at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. Already during her studies, which she graduated with the Bachelor of Arts in 2010, she participated in several movies. In 2010 she debuted with her own experimental short film "Inbetween" as a project of her art studies. During and after her studies, she studied acting with different teachers and got her first roles in film and TV productions. In 2008 she landed the challenging lead role in the drama, “Mine”. Mine’s world premiere was at the Festival of Films du Monde in Montreal in 2009. Other roles followed including the feature „Der Wald“, a guest role in Andreas Dresen’s drama „As we were dreaming“ (Competition Berlinale 2015), and the serbian Co-Production Feature "Open Cage“. The German – Serbian co-produced movie "Open Cage", in which she plays the leading role, celebrated its world premiere at Emir Kusturica’s Film Festival Küstendorf (Serbia). For her performance in "Open Cage", she won the "Special Jury Award as Best Actress" in Niš (Serbia) in 2015. In 2016 she shot her second short "Löwe am Montag", where she did directing, scriptwriting, production, acting, editing and artwork. The film has been proposed and submitted for the German Shortfilm Award. "The thoughts of Ana A. to B." was Lenis second short movie. She is living in Berlin and working on different projects and shooting for TV and Cinema.