Julia Jentsch
- Acting
- February 20, 1978 · Berlin, Germany
Biography
Julia Jentsch (born February 20, 1978) , is a Silver Bear, two-time European Film Award, and Lola winning German actress. She is best known as the title character in Sophie Scholl – The Final Days, Jule in The Edukators and, Liza in I Served the King of England. Jentsch was born to a family of lawyers in Berlin and began her acting education there at Hochschule Ernst Busch, a university for drama. Her first prominent screen role was in the 2004 cult film The Edukators, starring opposite Daniel Brühl. Jentsch garnered further attention playing the title role in the 2005 film Sophie Scholl – The Final Days, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In an interview, Jentsch said that the role was "an honor". For her role as Sophie Scholl she won the best actress at the European Film Awards, best actress at the German Film Awards (Lolas), along with the Silver Bear for best actress at theBerlin Film Festival.
Known for
Filmography
- Die hellen Tage · Maria
- Frieda
- Prosecution · Alexandra Tiedemann
- A Happy Family · Sabine Gubler
- Drunter & Drüber - Chaos auf dem Friedhof · Ursula Fink
- What Marielle Knows · Julia
- Electric Fields
- 8 Days in August · Helena
- The Hippocratic Silence · Clara Horn
- Monte Verità · Ida Hofmann
- Once Were Rebels · Helene
- Lindenberg! Mach dein Ding · Hermine Lindenberg
- FrauMutterTier · Marie Wohlenberg
- Pagan Peak · Ellie Stocker
- I'm (Endless Like the Space) · Maria
- Das Verschwinden · Michelle Grabowski
- Ostfriesenkrimis · Ann Kathrin Klaasen
- To Make a Comedy Is No Fun
- 24 Weeks · Astrid
- The Have-Nots · Isabelle
- All of a Sudden · Laura
- Men Have to Go through This · Lena
- The Chosen Ones · Petra Grust (jung)
- Monsoon Baby · Nina
- Not Quite a Simple Story
- Kokowääh 2 · Nicks Mutter
- The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich · Eva Reich
- Hannah Arendt · Lotte Köhler
- Speechless · Julia Jentsch
- Kommissar Marthaler · Kirsten Höpfner
- Hut in the Woods · Petra
- Chalet Girl · The Race Starter (uncredited)
- Here Comes Lola! · Viktualia Vicky' Veloso
- The Murder Farm · Kathrin
- Effi Briest · Effi Briest
- 33 Scenes from Life · Julia
- Suddenly Gina · Gina Franke
- I Served the King of England · Líza
- Kronprinz Rudolf · Sarah
- Thadeusz
- G&G - Gesichter und Geschichten · Self
- Sophie Scholl: The Final Days · Sophie Magdalena Scholl
- Snowland · Inna
- The Edukators · Jule
- Downfall · Hanna Potrowski
- Kulturplatz · Self
- Sarah Kuttner – Die Show · Self
- Othello · Desdemona
- My Brother the Vampire · Nadine
- Bloch · Laura
- Und die Braut wusste von nichts · Caroline Mierendorff
- Die Erpressung - Ein teuflischer Pakt · Chrissie Kramer
- Julietta · Nicole
- Deutscher Fernsehpreis · Self
- Volle Kanne · Self
- The Johannes B. Kerner Show · Self
- Alpha Forum · Self
- Die Verbrechen des Professor Capellari · Christina Hofer
- Dr. Sommerfeld - Neues vom Bülowbogen · Svenja Bergmann
- Nachtstudio · Self
- ZDF-Mittagsmagazin · Self
- Blauer Panther · Self
- Bavarian Film Awards · Self
- Kölner Treff · Self
- 3 nach 9 · Self
- Scene of the Crime · Johanna Kemmerlang
- German Film Award · Self