Vivien Soraya

Actor

Mover, Breather, Truth Seeker

“Acting is a kind of conscious participation in life. People act all the time. While most artistic expressions concern themselves with authenticity, acting is the only one based on the constant embodiment of the self through other, which ultimately causes the experience of a variety of authentic selves. In other words an expansion of the perception of self.

If one chooses to, it creates immense empathy and heightened sensitivity to the beauty of life itself.

Therefore, it is an act of rebellion against the rigidity and dullness of our time. Against the tight grip our profit-driven systems have around our tense and anxious bodies and minds, objectifying us, separating us and numbing us.

As an actor I choose to be raw, to strip naked to the last garment - the mask of the other - while the self is on wide display. To engage with the primal life inside, which we’re desperately trying to hide.”

“I’m not here to stay in the same expression of self,

I’m here to grow into many- to expand and change as much as I can”

About Vivien

Vivien is a Germany-born actress currently living in Berlin. She graduated from The Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute and Stella Adler’s: The Art of Acting Studio Los Angeles. She lived and studied in Los Angeles for 7 years before moving to Berlin, and worked on multiple projects in her time being there, including a lead role in a feature film and a Microsoft commercial.

She’s a local hire in Berlin, Karlsruhe and Athens (as well as LA if a temporary O1-Visa is offered).

Soraya is a strong advocate for nature and the soul, for empathy and diversity and for the return to the non-binary, free and loving nature of life. She is a certified Reiki practitioner, well versed in astrology and the tarot (a passionate side-hustle) and dedicates herself to the exploration of the psyche through interactive work with the unconscious. Born to a professional salsa dancer- she loves to move and dance, and sees the body as a sacred keeper of treasures and secrets- and to an entrepreneurial mother- she strives for a career path that is truthful to her unique expression.

Vivien loves to write poetry, read, film her own little stories, mysticize, mythologize, sing in the shower and howl at both the sun and the moon with her sweet little pup.