---
name: "Dorotea Saykaly"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dorotea-saykaly"
fi1m_id: "dorotea-saykaly"
tmdb_id: 2195591
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "6 October 1983"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-03T21:24:29.443272+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Dorotea Saykaly

## Identity

Dorotea Saykaly

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dorotea-saykaly
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dorotea-saykaly
- **TMDB ID:** 2195591
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2195591

Actor. Born 6 October 1983 in Montreal, Canada.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 6 October 1983, Montreal, Canada
- **Active:** 2019–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 76 (1), 2020s 75 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2195591

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Anima*](https://film.one/film/anima.md) (76)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Dorotea Saykaly is a Canadian dancer and choreographer. Born in Montreal, she began her professional career in 2006 with Compagnie Marie Chouinard, touring internationally and performing lead roles. In 2014 she joined Göteborgs Operans Danskompani in Sweden.

She has appeared as a dancer in the short film *Anima* (2019), directed by Paul Thomas Anderson with choreography by Damien Jalet, and in *Cyrano* (2021), directed by Joe Wright with choreography by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Saykaly has also created and performed in her own screendance works, including *She* (2022) and *Telos I* (2024).

As a choreographer, she received the inaugural Emily Molnar Emerging Choreographer Award and has created works for companies including Ballet BC and Skånes Dansteater.

*Sources: imdb.com, balletedmonton.ca, balletbc.com, acmodasi.in.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Cyrano* (2021), Fi1m 75, as Dancer — [page](https://film.one/film/cyrano.md)
- *Anima* (2019), Fi1m 76, as Dancer — [page](https://film.one/film/anima.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Cyrano* (2021), as Dancer — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/cyrano.md)
- *Anima* (2019), as Dancer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/anima.md)
- *Step Will Pilgrim* (2014), as Female slave #1
- *Brief Candle* (2013), as Choreographer
- *Painted* (2012), Actor
- *bODY rEMIX/ gOLDBERG vARIATIONS* (2005), as A dancer

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