Mala Emde is a German actress. Born in Frankfurt am Main to Thomas Emde and Cathrin Ehrlich, she has one elder sister. From 2009 to 2012 she attended the Tanz, Theater & Musik studio in Frankfurt am Main. Also there, she made her premiere as Aschenputtel in Janusz Głowacki's Die Aschenkinder and also as Tartalia in Friedrich Schiller's Turandot.