Sabine Timoteo

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).

Cast

Ghosts

(Toni)

A Friend of Mine

(Stelle)

Nebenwirkungen

(Claudia Keller)

Love, Money, Love

(Marie)

The Free Will

(Nettie)

The Days Between

(Lynn)

Electric Fields

Brownian Movement

(Psychiatrist)

Friends of Friends

(Billie)

Last Dance

(Carole)

Breakaway

(Mère de Karine)

Anxiety

(Sofia)

Color of the Ocean

(Nathalie)

Formentera

(Nina)

Cyanide

(Pénélope)

Transamazonia

(Denise)

Futuro Beach

(Heiko's Wife)

Pepperminta

(Edna)

The Wonders

(Cocò)

Sugar Orange

(Lena)

Thunder

(La Mère)

Those Who Work

(Valentine)

Mutants

(Charlotte)

Irgendwas ist immer

(Julia Liebermann)

A Forgotten Man

(Madame Bavaud)

Meanwhile on Earth

(Sidonie)

St. Francis Birds Tour

(Dreamgirl)

The Drift

(Alice Keller)

After Effect

(Rena Yazka)

Chaos and Silence

(Klara)

Flanke ins All

(Claudia)

Center of My World

(Glass)

Karigula - Monster der Liebe

(Karla)

180°

(Petra Cipriano)

Flug in die Nacht - Das Unglück von Überlingen

(Marita Lenders)

Zen for Nothing

(Herself)

The Investigation

(Zeugin 17)

The Chronicles of Melanie

(Melanie)

7 Minutes

(Micaela)

Kill Daddy Good Night

(Mimi)

Analysis Paralysis

(Voice)

Sarah Plays a Werewolf

(Drama Class Teacher)

Deadly Leaks

(Clara Holthaus)

Sicilian Ghost Story

(Madre di Luna)

The New End

(Mutter)

Wildcats

(Nathalie Roduit)

Homevideo

(Vera)

Cloud Whispers

(Marion)

Kleine Fische

(Sandy Mischler)

Matti and Sami and the Three Biggest Mistakes in the Universe

(Mother Annette)

Das Ächzen der Asche

Bis ans Ende der Träume

(Katharina von Arx)

Cronofobia

(Anna Martini)

The Black Brothers

(Giorgios Mutter)

How I Taught Myself to Be a Child

(Emma Silberstein)

The Tears Thing

(Sacha)

Little Paradise

(Annegret)

Roll the Drum!

(Marie-Thérèse)

Sunburned

(Sophie)

Exit Oerlikon

(Ronja)

Human Factors

(Nina)

The Collini Case

(Waffenexpertin)

The Girl and the Spider

(Karen)

Robber Girls

(Cindy)

Zahorí

Violet

(Nadja)

The Courageous

(Sandrine)

Dinosaures

Echos

(Magdalena Kaltbrunner)

Scene of the Crime

(Teresa Weinberger)

The Gryphon

(Petra)

Scene of the Crime

(Gabi Kunz)

Scene of the Crime

(Manon)

Riesending - Jede Stunde zählt

(Raffaela Pardeller)

Grimme Award

(Self)

German Film Award

(Self)

Bodkin

(Annika)

G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten

(Self)

Scene of the Crime

(Sabine Timoteo)

Scene of the Crime

(Béatrice Radek)