Julia Jentsch
Actor
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".[1] 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.
Filmography
Chalet Girl
as The Race Starter (uncredited) 2011
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
as Sophie Magdalena Scholl 2005
The Edukators
as Jule 2004
Hannah Arendt
as Lotte Köhler 2012
Kokowääh 2
as Nicks Mutter 2013
I Served the King of England
as LÃza 2007
Lindenberg! Mach dein Ding
as Hermine Lindenberg 2020
24 Weeks
as Astrid 2016
The Murder Farm
as Kathrin 2009
All of a Sudden
as Laura 2016
Hut in the Woods
as Petra 2011
Here Comes Lola!
as Viktualia Vicky' Veloso 2010
Effi Briest
as Effi Briest 2009
33 Scenes from Life
as Julia 2008
Men Have to Go through This
as Lena 2015
The Chosen Ones
as Petra Grust (jung) 2014