Annika Strauss is a German film actress and author. She grew up in Reutlingen as the youngest of three children. After graduating from high school in 2005, she began studying general rhetoric and German language and literature at the University of Tübingen, graduating with a Master of Arts degree in 2013. To date, she has appeared in over 30 film productions. As an author, she published her debut thriller Nachtfahrt (Night Drive) in 2024. She also worked as a news editor for television from 2017 to 2023.