Details
Alternate Names: Sabine Hagenbüchle
Physical Characteristics: N/A
Career
First Appearances: - Love, Money, Love (2000) as Marie
Most Important Roles: - Ghosts (2005) as Toni
- A Friend of Mine (2006) as Stelle
- Nebenwirkungen (2007) as Claudia Keller
- Love, Money, Love (2000) as Marie
- The Free Will (2006) as Nettie
- The Days Between (2001) as Lynn
- Electric Fields (2024) as
- Brownian Movement (2010) as Psychiatrist
- Friends of Friends (2002) as Billie
- Last Dance (2023) as Carole
Career Highlights: - Ghosts (2005)
- A Friend of Mine (2006)
- Nebenwirkungen (2007)
- Love, Money, Love (2000)
- The Free Will (2006)
- The Days Between (2001)
- Electric Fields (2024)
- Brownian Movement (2010)
- Friends of Friends (2002)
- Last Dance (2023)
Awards
Awards: - Won Adolf Grimme Award - Fiction/Entertainment (2003)
- Nominated for 1 Film Award in Gold - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Beste darstellerische Leistung - Weibliche Nebenrolle) (2007)
- Won Bronze Leopard - Best Actress (2000)
- Nominated for 1 Swiss Film Prize - Best Actress (Beste Darstellerin) (2020)
- Won Swiss Film Prize - Best Actress (Beste Darstellerin) (2015)
- Nominated for 1 Swiss Film Prize - Best Actress (Beste Darstellerin) (2013)
- Nominated for 1 Swiss Film Prize - Best Actress (Beste Darstellerin) (2011)
- Won Swiss Film Prize - Best Actress (Beste Darstellerin) (2008)
- Won Latvian Film Prize - Best Actress (Labaka aktrise) (2017)
- Nominated for 1 Jupiter Award - Best German Actress (2017)
Full Biography
Sabine Timoteo, born Sabine Hagenbüchle on 25 March 1975 in Bern, is a Swiss actress and former dancer. She fluently speaks German, French, English, Italian and Spanish.
She studied dance and won the Prix de Lausanne for "best young dancer".
Her film debut was in Philip Gröning's L'Amour, l'Argent, l'Amour, which was shot in 1996 but released in 2000. For this role, she won the Swiss Film Award for Best Actress. Between 1997 and 2000, before fully embarking on her acting career, she trained as a professional cook in Bern. After marrying a man, she took the name Sabine Timoteo, under which she built the majority of her film career.
She continued to gain acclaim with major roles in films such as Ghosts (2005), The Free Will (2006), Color of the Ocean (2012), Cyanide (2013), Futuro Beach (2014), The Wonders (2014) and Center of My World (2016).
In more recent years she has worked in several notable projects, including Meanwhile on Earth (2024), Chaos & Silence (2025) and Transamazonia (2025).
