Annett Culp is a German actress born in 1978 in Potsdam, Germany, to a Sudanese father and a German mother. She is the granddaughter of Abdel Fattah Mohamed Elmaghrabi, the first Democratic elected President of Sudan after its Independence in 1956.
Culp's early life was marked by her interest in acting, which she pursued at the age of 13 when she attended her first casting. She later moved to Los Angeles in 1996 to study acting at the Playhouse West School and Repertory Theatre, graduating in 2000. During her time in Los Angeles, she worked as an extra on various Hollywood productions and TV series.
Annett Culp's breakthrough on German television came when she landed a starring role in the German Daily Soap Opera "Verbotene Liebe" playing the character Silke Voss from 2004 to 2005. She has since appeared in a multitude of different roles on German TV series, including recurring characters in successful TV series such as "Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten", "Wolffs Revier" and "Die Wache".
In the US, Annett Culp was discovered by the legendary director and screenwriter Zalman King, who saw her when she picked up a friend from a casting session and invited her to attend another casting session the following week. After that audition, she played the lead role of Anastasia in the Showtime series "ChromiumBlue.com" that ran for 13 episodes in 2002.
Annett Culp has also appeared in several films, including the critically acclaimed movie "Outcasts" written and directed by independent filmmaker Johnny Asuncion. She played the role of Nina in the movie, which was originally written for an 18-year-old girl from East Los Angeles, but was recast after the director met with Annett Culp.
In addition to her acting career, Annett Culp is a trained Yoga instructor who studied for years under acclaimed Yoga teacher Brian Kest and holds a diploma from the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres in Los Angeles. She is also an expert in Martial Arts and has studied under Eric Chen at the National Wushu Training Center in Los Angeles and Martial Artist Dan Inosanto at the Inosanto Academy.
Annett Culp is a mother to a daughter born in 2011 and splits her time between Berlin and Los Angeles. She became a US Citizen in 2007 and has been involved in various charity work, including being a jury member of the International Women's Film Festival in Morocco in 2013.
