Vidina Popov

Vidina Popov was born in Vienna in 1992. Even as a child, Popov performed at the Vienna Volkstheater, and as a teenager she worked as a children’s host on numerous ORF programs. From 2012 to 2016, she studied acting at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. She then attended the Ecole Philippe Gaulier clown school in Paris. Her theater credits include appearances at the Deutsches Theater Berlin and, from 2017 to 2024, as a permanent ensemble member at the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin. In 2022, she was invited to the Theatertreffen for Yael Ronen’s Slippery Slope. For her »outstanding acting performance« in the 2023 Play of the Year, Bühnenbeschimpfung, she was awarded the Gordana Kosanovic Prize at the Mühlheimer Theater Days. With her self-written one-woman show Ich bin Bulgare?! she has been performing successfully on various stages for 13 years, including at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, the Staatstheater Hannover, and currently at the Heimathafen Neukölln. Popov also works regularly in film and television; she is known, among other roles, for her appearance in Call My Agent Berlin, for her leading female role in the ARD series Der Lissabon-Krimi, for her appearances in Tatort, and for her role in the biopic Alice.
In addition to her work as an actress, Popov also works as a singer and voice actress. Most recently, she was awarded the prestigious hr2 Children’s and Youth Audiobook Prize by the state capital of Wiesbaden for her voice acting performance. Since 2025, she has been hosting her own late-night show, Radio POP OFF, for RBB.

As of October 2026