
Emma Bading grew up in Berlin. Her parents are actors Thomas Bading and Claudia Geisler-Bading. As a teenager, she rose to fame in 2015 in the German crime series TATORT. This was followed by other television series and, since 2017, cinema productions. For the film "Play", she received a television award for best actress in 2019 and a television award for best up-and-coming actress in 2020. At the 2024 International "Hofer" Film Days, she received the jury's short film award as director of "Shut up and suffer." Her younger sister Bella Bading is also an actress who came out as bisexual in February 2021.

Scene of the Crime
TV • 1970

Scene of the Crime
TV • 1970

Kommissarin Lucas
TV • 2003

Helen Dorn
TV • 2014

Sebastian Fitzek's Therapy
TV • 2023

Berlin Syndrome
MOVIE • 2017

Different Kinds of Rain
MOVIE • 2018

From Hilde, with Love
MOVIE • 2024

House of Yang
TV • 2026

As Green As It Gets
MOVIE • 2018

Play
MOVIE • 2019

How to Be Really Bad
MOVIE • 2018

Westwall
TV • 2021

Dear Thomas
MOVIE • 2021

Nebelwand - Der Usedom Krimi
MOVIE • 2017

Schandfleck - Der Usedom-Krimi
MOVIE • 2015

The Usedom Thriller: Mörderhus
MOVIE • 2014

Die Kleinen und die Bösen
MOVIE • 2015