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).

Filmography

• 2026Where is Ava? — Emma
• 2025Chaos and Silence — Klara
• 2025Dinosaures
• 2025The Courageous — Sandrine
• 2025Transamazonia — Denise
• Bodkin — Annika
• 2024Electric Fields
• 2024Karigula - Monster der Liebe — Karla
• 2024Meanwhile on Earth — Sidonie
• 2024The Investigation — Zeugin 17
• 2024Violet — Nadja
• 2023A Forgotten Man — Madame Bavaud
• 2023Ailleurs — Sibylle
• 2023Anxiety — Sofia
• 2023Breakaway — Mère de Karine
• 2023Last Dance — Carole
• The Gryphon — Petra
• 2022Human Factors — Nina
• Riesending - Jede Stunde zählt — Raffaela Pardeller
• 2022Thunder — La Mère
• 2022Zahorí
• 2021Borowski und der gute Mensch — Teresa Weinberger
• Echos — Magdalena Kaltbrunner
• 2021The Girl and the Spider — Karen
• 2019Cronofobia — Anna Martini
• 2019How I Taught Myself to Be a Child — Emma Silberstein
• 2019My Brother’s Name Is Robert and He Is an Idiot — Co-Writer
• 2019Roll the Drum! — Marie-Thérèse
• 2019Sunburned — Sophie
• 2019The Collini Case — Waffenexpertin
• 2019The Tears Thing — Sacha
• 2018Bis ans Ende der Träume — Katharina von Arx
• 2018Cloud Whispers — Marion
• 2018Das Ächzen der Asche
• 2018Don't Tell Me You Can't Sing — Director, Writer
• 2018Matti and Sami and the Three Biggest Mistakes in the Universe — Mother Annette
• 2018The New End — Mutter
• 2018Those Who Work — Valentine
• 2017Sarah Plays a Werewolf — Drama Class Teacher
• 2017Sicilian Ghost Story — Madre di Luna
• 2017Wildcats — Nathalie Roduit
• 20167 Minutes — Micaela
• 2016Analysis Paralysis — Voice
• 2016Center of My World — Glass
• 2016Deadly Leaks — Clara Holthaus
• 2016The Chronicles of Melanie — Melanie
• 2016Zen for Nothing — Herself, Writer
• 2015Exit Oerlikon — Ronja
• 2015The Drift — Alice Keller
• 2014Futuro Beach — Heiko's Wife
• 2014The Black Brothers — Giorgios Mutter
• 2014The Wonders — Cocò
• 2013Cyanide — Pénélope
• 2012Color of the Ocean — Nathalie
• 2012Formentera — Nina
• 2011Homevideo — Vera
• 2010180° — Petra Cipriano
• 2010Brownian Movement — Psychiatrist
• 2010Little Paradise — Annegret
• 2009Flug in die Nacht - Das Unglück von Überlingen — Marita Lenders
• 2009Kill Daddy Good Night — Mimi
• 2009Pepperminta — Edna
• 2009Robber Girls — Cindy
• 2007After Effect — Rena Yazka
• 2007Nebenwirkungen — Claudia Keller
• 2007Small Fish — Sandy Mischler
• 2006A Friend of Mine — Stelle
• 2006Flanke ins All — Claudia
• 2006The Free Will — Nettie
• 2005Ghosts — Toni
• 2005St. Francis Birds Tour — Dreamgirl
• 2004Sugar Orange — Lena
• 2003Irgendwas ist immer — Julia Liebermann
• 2002Friends of Friends — Billie
• 2002Mutants — Charlotte
• 2001The Days Between — Lynn
• 2000Love, Money, Love — Marie
• Schimanski — Niki
• Scene of the Crime — Teresa Weinberger, Gabi Kunz, Manon, Sabine Timoteo, Béatrice Radek

Appearances as themselves (3)

• G&G - Gesichter und Geschichten — Self
• Grimme Award — Self
• German Film Award — Self