Mina Tander, born December 4, 1978, in Cologne, already entered the stage as a member of her school"s theatre group. At a meeting of school theatre groups in Münster, the artistic director of the Münster theatre discoverd her acting talent. In 1995, Tander made her movie debut in a supporting role in the TV movie "Absprung" alongside Bibiana Beglau. After finishing school, she attended actor"s training in Cologne from 1998 to 2000 and started her acting career in 1999. In a short space of time, Tander appeared in three successful films on the movie screen: In the coming of age story "Hinter dem Regenbogen" ("Over The Rainbow", 1999), Tander played a fun-loving teenager, in "Harte Jungs" ("Ants in The Pants", 2000), she played a blonde sex bomb, and in Marc Rothemund"s "Schule" ("No More School"), Tander played the part of a cheeky high-school graduate.

During the following years, Mina Tander, who attended actor"s training at Berlin"s Ernst-Busch-Schule since 2004, mainly appeared in key supporting roles in numerous TV and movie productions, including the award-winning drama "Fremder Freund" ("The Friend", 2003), and in the ensemble films "Oktoberfest" (2005) and "Selbstgespräche" ("Come In and Burn Out", 2008). Tander played another leading role alongside Sebastian Koch and Wotan Wilke Möhring in Jan Fehse"s relationship drama "In jeder Sekunde" (At Any Second") that opened in German cinemas in late 2008.

In her next film, Tander starred in a quite different role: In "Maria, ihm schmeckt"s nicht!" ("Maria, He Doesn"t Like It!"), based on Jan Weiler"s best-selling novel, she played a German-Italian woman whose shy German fiancé is confronted with her unconventional relatives from Italy.