Miriam Stein


Miriam Stein is an Austrian-Swiss television and film actress. She is best known internationally for a leading role as Charlotte in the German television drama Generation War.

Early life

Stein was born in Vienna, Austria, to an Austrian mother and her Swiss father, television presenter Dieter Moor. She is of German Jewish descent; Her paternal grandfather was a Holocaust survivor from Germany. She was raised in Vienna, where she began dancing and acting from a young age. She professionally acted through her teenage years before attending Zurich University of the Arts; she graduated in 2009, whereafter she spent a year at the Paris Conservatoire.

Career

Stein's first professional role was at age ten in the 1999 television film Das Mädchen aus der Fremde; she received a German Television Award for her performance as a troubled child refugee from Kosovo. She had various small roles in television movies and shows as a young adult, before her breakout role in the 2010 film Young Goethe in Love.
Stein came to national prominence with the 2013 German miniseries Generation War in which she played one of the five protagonists. Stein won an Austrian Romy Award for her performance and received a special award for Ensemble Cast at the 2013 Bavarian TV Awards.

Personal life

Stein lives in Berlin with her partner, actor Volker Bruch. They had a child together in 2017. Stein met Bruch in 2009 on the set of the film Young Goethe in Love. Notably, they later starred together in 2013's Generation War, 2014's Tour de Force, and 2015's Das goldene Ufer.

Filmography

Selected filmography