Nilam Farooq Siblings: Getting to Know Jonas Farooq

Nilam Michaela Farooq is a versatile German actress, former YouTuber, and voice artist born on September 26, 1989, in West Berlin, West Germany.

Of Pakistani and Polish descent, she grew up in the Wilmersdorf district of Berlin, where she attended the humanistic Goethe-Gymnasium and completed her Abitur.

Fluent in German, Polish, and English, she also holds qualifications in Latin and Ancient Greek.

Farooq began her journey in the entertainment industry at the young age of 14, blending her multicultural background into a successful career spanning television, film, commercials, and digital media.

Siblings

Nilam has a younger brother, named Jonas Farooq.

Their background includes a Pakistani father and a Polish mother, contributing to her diverse heritage, but no further information on additional siblings or extended family is widely documented.

Career

Farooq’s career kicked off in 2006 with guest and supporting roles in television series and short films, including appearances in “Alle lieben Jimmy” and “Adem’s Sohn.”

By the late 2000s, she expanded into commercials for brands like Telekom and VIVA, and in the early 2010s, she took on voice acting roles in projects such as “Upperdog” and “Royal Pains.”

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A breakthrough came in 2013 when she landed the role of Commissioner Olivia Fareedi in the long-running series “Leipzig Homicide” (known as “SOKO Leipzig” in Germany), which she portrayed until 2019 across 94 episodes.

Parallel to her acting, Farooq built a significant online presence as a YouTuber from 2010 to 2017 under the channels “daaruum” and later “Nilam,” where she shared vlogs on travel and lifestyle, becoming one of Germany’s most successful creators in that space.

Her film career gained momentum with feature films starting in 2015, starring in hits like “My Blind Date with Life” (2017), “Heilstätten” (2018), “Sweethearts” (2019), “Contra” (2020), “The Four of Us” (2021), “Locked-in Society” (2022), “Manta, Manta: Legacy” (2023), and “Early Birds” (2023).

More recently, she appeared in the Netflix series “Das Signal” (2024) and is set to star in “Take the Money and Run” (2026) as Dr. Ruja Ignatova.

Additionally, she has participated in entertainment shows like “Wer stiehlt mir die Show?” (2022), “Schlag den Star” (2023, where she won €100,000), and “Das Duell um die Welt” (2023).

Accolades

In 2019, Farooq won the Jupiter Award for Best National Actress for her role in the horror film “Heilstätten.”

The following year, she received the Bavarian Film Award for Best Actress for her work in “Contra,” and in 2022, she shared the Ernst-Lubitsch-Preis with co-star Christoph Maria Herbst for the same film.

Earlier, she was nominated for the Young Icons Award in 2018 for “My Blind Date with Life.”

During her YouTube era, she was honored with Google’s “Next Up” award in 2011 and the PlayAward for Beauty, Lifestyle, and Fashion in 2013, highlighting her influence in digital media.