Acting
Dec 31, 1978
Biel/Bienne, Switzerland Switzerland
Anna Pieri Zuercher
Acting
Biography
Born in the city of Biel/Bienne (Switzerland), Anna Pieri Zuercher grew up in a multicultural family with an Italian mother and a Swiss-German father. As an award-winning actress and filmmaker, she works across film, television, theater, and directing. Fluent in French, Italian, German, and English, she performs internationally and moves seamlessly between languages and artistic disciplines. Alongside her acting career, Anna has developed a distinctive voice as a filmmaker. Her short film Cherubs, co-directed with Pietro Zuercher, premiered at several major international festivals including the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Shorts (PÖFF Shorts), Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (NIFFF) and the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFFF). The film won the Jury Prize for Best Short Film at the Beverly Hills Film Festival in Los Angeles, as well as Best First-Time Filmmaker Short and Best Production Design at the Hollywood Shortsfest, and was nominated for Best Short Film at the Swiss Film Awards 2026. She is currently developing her first feature film, Grave, a dark comedy produced by Turnus Film and Cinédokké in co-production with Finland and Estonia. Shooting is scheduled for early 2027. In 2019, Anna Pieri Zuercher won the Swissperform Award for Best Lead Actress for her role as Nina Favre in Double Vie, directed by Bruno Deville. Among her screen credits are Hors-Saison, a Franco-Swiss co-production directed by Pierre Monnard, alongside Marina Hands and Sofiane Zermani; Last Dance, directed by Delphine Lehericey, opposite François Berléand; Alter Ego alongside Gian Marco Tognazzi; and Station Horizon, directed by Pierre-Adrian Irlé and Romain Graf. Since 2019, Anna has been shooting the TV show Tatort, in which she plays the protagonist role of investigator Isabelle Grandjean. This is the oldest and most popular crime drama TV series currently broadcast in German- speaking countries. It is watched every week by around 7 million people. She also recently appeared in the TV series Uniformes directed by Romain Graf and Könige der Nacht, directed by Claudio Fäh. She is currently shooting True Scary Tales, directed by Torsten C. Fischer.
Feature Films (4)
Germain, an introspective retiree, abruptly becomes a widower at 75. He barely has the time to realize what has happened to him before his family forces their way into his daily life: non-stop phone calls and visits, meals and activities organized in advance – all meant to make his life as regular as clockwork. But Germain’s mind is elsewhere. Honoring a promise he made to his dear departed wife, he suddenly finds himself at the heart of a contemporary dance company’s newest work.
Last Dance
A Swiss right-wing populist and a veiled, Kurdish Muslim asylum seeker swap bodies before an election.
Boomerang
Sam, a seven years old kid, has been living with his mother since the divorce of his parents. He has to temporarily move in with his father, Gerome, who has never taken care of him. So, Sam is not close with his father. Everyone around Gerome thinks that he's incapable to look after a child. After a chaotic start, Sam, by the force of his convictions, is going to help Gerome to get mature and to teach him how to become a father that he missed so much.
Sam
Coelio desperately tries to win the heart of Marianne, the wife of Judge Claudio. On a bridge, he wants to commit suicide, but he runs into his friend Octave, who is returning from a carnival - drunk as usual. Octave agrees to act as matchmaker for Coelio.
Les Caprices de Marianne
Television & Series (8)
Lulu, Chiara and Joe are on the verge of adulthood and dream of a world of freedom and equality. With the hippie wave everywhere, they see how their conservative village is lost among drugs, seeing the damage of excess and addiction.
The Firebrands
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
Scene of the Crime
End of the winter season in “Les Cimes”, a small ski resort in the Swiss Alps. As the snow melts, the body of a murdered woman appears near the French border. At the head of the investigation, Inspector Sterenn Peiry, however, keeps a dark secret...
Off Season
During the traditional carnival celebrations, the dead body of a young girl is found near the small town of Bellinzona, in Southern Switzerland. The officers engaged in the case find themselves investigating crimes rooted in a past full of shadows.
Alter Ego
After Marc, an esteemed architect, dies unexpectedly from a heart attack at a construction site, Laurence, his long-time partner, and Nina, his younger wife, find out about each other’s existence. Laurence, devastated and angry, decides to confront Nina, a woman unknown to everyone except Marc’s brother Robin, who returns from Japan for the funeral.
