Agnes Thi Mai

Photo: Raimund Verspohl

Agnes Thi-Mai

Actress

Agnes Thi-Mai is of vietnamese/hungarian/german descent and grew up in a suburb near Augsburg. She discovered theater and dance at the age of 6. She also sang and played both guitar and electric bass in several bands and took lessons in musical singing on the side. After school, she moved to Munich to study theater acting. In 2012, she moved to Berlin, where she has been working as an actress ever since. As a film actress, Agnes has filmed with international actors and directors and her feature-length and short films have screened at festivals such as Toronto, Cannes, the Berlinale, the German Films Festival in Los Angeles and several festivals in Italy.

TASTE OF LIFE (2017, role: Monika) was her first collaboration with Roland Reber and the wtp international team.

FILM & TV (Selection)

2024   ÜBERALL GIBT ES EIN HAUSEN                    Director: wtp-kollektiv
2024   NACKT (Dokumentarfilm)                              Director: Anne Römeth, Elsa Loy
2023   ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM (Short)                 Director: Micha Muhl
2022   INDOOR (Short)                                              Director: Simone Trotta
2021   FLY                                                                   Director: Katja von Garnier
2021   EASTSIDE                                                        Director: Pius Okaba
2017   DER GESCHMACK VON LEBEN                     Director: Roland Reber        

INTERVIEW WITH AGNES THI-MAI (Role: MONIKA)

 How did you get to know wtp?

When I was at the Cannes Film Festival back in 2009 to present a short film, everyone was talking about the film ANGELS WITH DIRTY WINGS. Since then I’m a fan of wtp.

Tell us something about your character MONIKA. Are there any parallels to your personal life?

My character is called MONIKA and she is only able to feel lust and sexuality through physical pain. She is only focused on pain, this obsession determines her life. If a man can’t whip her like she wants him to she replaces him. Men are pure objects to her and just meant to bring her personal satisfaction. I find this fact very exciting. The character doesn’t have much to do with me as a private person, privately I’m more an attached and cuddly person trying to avoid pain as much as I can.