




ASTRONAUTS
Vienna, Austria 2001. A bizarre encounter between a bulimic, single mum in precarious circumstances and a non-binary person from Argentina dressed as an Astronaut in a karaoke bar. Click here for more info…
Vienna, Austria 2001. A bizarre encounter between a bulimic, single mum in precarious circumstances and a non-binary person from Argentina dressed as an Astronaut in a karaoke bar. Click here for more info…




Vienna, Austria 2001. A bizarre encounter between a bulimic, single mum in precarious circumstances and a non-binary person from Argentina dressed as an Astronaut in a karaoke bar. Click here for more info…
ABOUT
Suzie Léger is an Austrian-Canadian actress. She studied acting at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting Conservatory in New York and the Acting School Krauss, as well as Transmedia Arts at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
Suzie enjoys embodying female characters who fight through with inexhaustible willpower, never give up and can also master their fate with humor – seen in the Argentine-Austrian film Astronauts (acting, screenplay). For her portrayal as a single mother who pushes herself to her limits, she received several awards at international festivals and screened in competition at Diagonale’22. She also had a supporting role in the American TV pilot Cicatrix.
Her own Jewish family background also leads her to material that contributes a bit to coming to terms with the past. She is currently writing her second narrative short film, which tells the life stories of the forgotten and erased Jewish women artists under National Socialism in Vienna and reveals intimate insights into their everyday struggle against fascism in the German-speaking world. In this thematic complex, Suzie was part of the production The more it comes the more it goes by Israeli director David Maayan (Arbeit macht frei) at Hamakom Theater in Vienna.
Suzie is the founder of the punk rock band What Would Tilda Swinton Do (Fm4) and performed as its lead singer on the East Coast of the United States.
As an artist, she supports the Don’t Mess With My Rights project initiated by documentary filmmaker Tina Leisch. This brings Austrian youths together virtually with young people from the global south, who together make short films on children’s rights issues and show them at the This Human World Festival in Vienna.
For her work to date, she has been awarded the Ö1 Talentestipendium, a START grant for media art, a prize for the best short film at the Women’s Film Festival Vienna, and the main prize at the Now&After Film Festival in Moscow, as well as the Young Female Artist Award from Bildrecht GmbH.
SUZIE LÉGER
NATIONALITY
Austria, Canada
TraINING
Ongoing
Training with Agnes Hilpert
Voice, dialect and accent coaching
2022
Demidov Acting Technique
Workshop with Andrei Biziorek
Filmschule Wien
2021
Chubbuck Studio Berlin
Chubbuck technique
2020
Susan Batson Studio, New York
Susan Batson technique
2014 - 2016
Stella Adler Studio of Acting, New York
Theater Conservatory Program
2016
Art of Acting Studio, Los Angeles
Film and TV Intensive
2012 - 2014
Schauspielschule Krauss, Wien
2006 - 2012
University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Master of Transmedia Arts
2011
UCL Slade School of Fine Arts, London
Media Arts Erasmus exchange program
Other
The Juilliard School, New York, USA
Course in Music Production
International Summer Academy of Fine Arts
Class of VALIE EXPORT
FILM & TV
Berg (Performance Film)
R: Lisa Kortschak
Goldener Käfig (Pitch Shooting for funding)
Selikovsky Film, Austria
R: Nikolai Selikovsky
Wien wartet auf dich
(post-production)
Carioca Film Productions, Brazil/Austria
R: Jonata Branches
Astronauts
Atelier Orlando, Austria/Argentinia
R: Mariano Cabaco
Where is the Fire
NYU MFA, USA
R: Yonca Talu
Cicatrix
Be Your Craft, USA
R: Lee Milby, Natalia Elizabeth
The Dark Room
Montclair State University, USA
R: Faranak Sahafian
Lipstick
Montclair State University, USA
R: Melanie St.Clair
Apropos of Logic
Lafin C’estmerde, Austria
R: Katarina Csanyiova, Suzie Léger