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Noah Saavedra was born on 13 February 1991 in Oberpullendorf, Austria; his family is originally from Chile, but his grandfather fled to Europe during the Pinochet regime. Noah Saavedra gained his first acting experience in 2012/13 at the 'Junge Burg' of the Vienna Burgtheater. From 2013 to 2015 he studied acting at the Conservatory of the City of Vienna, after which he successfully applied to the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst 'Ernst Busch' in Berlin.
Saavedra made his first small onscreen appearance in 2015 as a snowboarder in the James Bond film "Spectre" (GB). But already in his second film he played the leading role: In the artist portrait "Egon Schiele: Tod und Mädchen" ("Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden", AT 2016, director: Dieter Berner) he impersonated the famous Austrian painter. This achievement earned him a New Faces Award and the Austrian Film Prize Romy 2017 for Best Young Actor. In the following year, he was awarded the O.E. Hasse Prize, which is awarded annually alternately to students of the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich and the Ernst Busch College to promote outstanding talents. Also in 2018, Saavedra appeared in guest roles in the TV series "Der Zürich-Krimi" and "CopStories" (AT). At the beginning of 2019 he had a leading role in Gregor Schnitzler's television play "Lotte am Bauhaus", as a Bauhaus student and great love of the title character. Almost simultaneously, "O Beautiful Night" celebrated its premiere in the Berlinale Panorama section, with Noah Saavedra as the dithering young man who gets into a Faustian Pact with Death. Also in 2019, he became an ensemble member at the Munich Residenztheater.
In the second season of the series "Bad Banks" (2020) Saavedra was the mentally unstable founder and CEO of an ecologically sustainable robo-advisor, and in Marvin Kren's crime series "Freud" (2020) he embodied the writer Arthur Schnitzler. Julia von Heinz cast Saavedra in a leading role as a violent left-wing radical in the award-winning drama "Und morgen die ganze Welt" ("And Tomorrow the Entire World", 2020); in the Austrian-Belgian production "Hochwald" ("Why Not You", 2020) he played a gay actor with whom a childhood friend from his South Tyrolean home village falls in love. For this role, Saavedra was nominated for the Austrian Film Award for Best Supporting Actor.
He had a leading role in the science fiction film "Everything Will Change" ("The Way We Were", 2021), as a young man who, in a dystopian year 2054, tracks down the natural beauty and wildlife of a time long gone, and wants to retroactively change our present. The film won awards at several festivals and was released in July 2022.
In addition to his work as an actor, Noah Saavedra also works as a model.