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Livia Matthes (born 03 March 1990) is a German actress, born in Berlin, Germany. She ist best known for the Canadian spy series X Company, the Netflix film Prey and the Netflix series We are the wave.

Early life
Livia Matthes was born in Berlin, Germany. She lived in Japan, USA, Brazil, Spain and France. From an early age she attended a children's and youth theater group. She is fluent in German, English, French, Brazilian-Portuguese and speaks good Spanish.

Career
She started her career with episode lead roles in German ARD and ZDF productions such as Soko Leipzig, the crime TV film Begierde - Jäger in der Nacht, the crime series Der Kriminalist and thriller series The Typist.

In 2014 she portrayed the role of Sabine in her first feature film, the Dutch road movie J. Kessels, which opened the 35. Netherlands Film Festival in Amsterdam.

Matthes gained international attention in 2015 with her ensemble lead role in the Canadian spy thriller series X Company which aired on CBC Television and in numerous countries and won several awards. In it, she embodied the role of Sabine Faber for three years, for which she received praising reviews.

Guest appearances in the US television series Sense8 and Homeland followed in 2015.

She took on the role of Heidi in the crime comedy Pig's Head al dente, which was nominated for Best National Film at the 2017 Jupiter Award.

Further productions were the film Godless Youth (Jugend ohne Gott) in 2017 where she played the role of Samira and which was nominated for several German Awards, Bad Banks which was nominated for the 47th International Emmy Awards in 2019.

In the feature film Strassenkaiser which screened in competition at the 2017 Max Ophüls Preis Filmfestival and premiered there, she was cast as Amelie in one of the lead roles.

In 2018 she was invited to Berlinale Talents from the 68. Berlinale International Filmfestival.

In the Netflix series We Are the Wave Livia Matthes embodied the role of the weapons dealer Nikki. I

2019 she starred alongside Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott and Elizabeth Banks who also directed, in the American action film Charlie's Angels among others.

In the Netflix thriller Prey she was seen in the role of Lisa.

In the first German Amazon Prime Video film One Night Off which was nominated for the Bavarian Film Award Blauer Panther 2022 she played the role of Mimi.