Thea Ehre
Thea Ehre (born 1999 in Wels, Austria) is an Austrian actress, performer and human rights activist. She is transgender and an LGBTQ+ advocate. She studied at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna and the Vienna Film Academy.
In 2019 she appeared in two episodes of Vorstadtweiber. Since 2020 she has worked mostly in Austria and Germany. In 2021 she helped create Fugue Four: Response with Luca Bonamore, Nick Romeo Reimann and Olivia Scheucher. It premiered at the Porn Film Festival Vienna and later at the Volkstheater in Vienna. The piece looked at how mainstream porn images affect sexuality; the performers were naked but no sex acts took place.
Thea’s film debut came in 2023 with Till the End of the Night, directed by Christoph Hochhäusler, where she played the transgender criminal Leni. The film was in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival, and she won the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Actress, dedicating the prize to her parents.
In March 2023 she played Babette in Luden – Könige der Reeperbahn on Amazon Prime, a series set in 1980s St. Pauli, Hamburg. That year she also helped judge the Vienna Film Prize at the Viennale, alongside Artemis Vakianis and LYLIT.
In 2025 she was chosen to represent the German film industry in the Face to Face with German Films campaign and served on the jury of the Santiago International Film Festival in Chile for the national talent shorts.
She first publicly came out in 2021 as part of the #actout initiative in SZ-Magazin, at the time using the name Thea David Ehrensperger.
This page was last edited on 2 February 2026, at 06:30 (CET).