
Julia Jentsch
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.
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Acting History
2025
Drunter & Drüber - Chaos auf dem Friedhof as Ursula Fink
2025What Marielle Knows as Julia
2024Electric Fields
20248 Days in August as Helena
2022The Hippocratic Silence as Clara Horn
2021Monte Verità as Ida Hofmann
2020Once Were Rebels as Helene
2020Lindenberg! Mach dein Ding as Hermine Lindenberg
2019FrauMutterTier as Nathalie
2019Pagan Peak as Ellie Stocker
2017I'm (Endless Like the Space) as Maria
2017Das Verschwinden as Michelle Grabowski
2017Ostfriesenkrimis as Ann Kathrin Klaasen
2016To Make a Comedy Is No Fun
201624 Weeks as Astrid
2016The Have-Nots as Isabelle
2016All of a Sudden as Laura
2015Men Have to Go through This as Lena
2014The Chosen Ones as Petra Grust (jung)
2014Monsoon Baby as Nina
2013Not Quite a Simple Story
2013Kokowääh 2 as Nicks Mutter
2013The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich as Eva Reich
2012Hannah Arendt as Lotte Köhler
2012Kommissar Marthaler as Kirsten Höpfner
2011Hut in the Woods as Petra
2011Chalet Girl as The Race Starter (uncredited)
2010Here Comes Lola! as Viktualia Vicky' Veloso
2009The Murder Farm as Kathrin
2009Effi Briest as Effi Briest
200833 Scenes from Life as Julia
2007Suddenly Gina as Gina Franke
2007I Served the King of England as Líza
2006Kronprinz Rudolf as Sarah
2005Thadeusz
2005G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten as Self
2005Sophie Scholl: The Final Days as Sophie Magdalena Scholl
2005Snowland as Inna
2004The Edukators as Jule
2004Downfall as Hanna Potrowski
2004Kulturplatz as Self
2004Sarah Kuttner – Die Show as self - guest
2003Othello as Desdemona
2002My Brother the Vampire as Nadine
2002Bloch as Laura
2002Und die Braut wusste von nichts as Caroline Mierendorff
2001Die Erpressung - Ein teuflischer Pakt as Chrissie Kramer
2001Julietta as Nicole
1999German Television Award as Self
1999Volle Kanne as Self
1998The Johannes B. Kerner Show as Self
1998Alpha Forum as Self
1998Die Verbrechen des Professor Capellari as Christina Hofer
1997Dr. Sommerfeld - Neues vom Bülowbogen as Svenja Bergmann
1997Nachtstudio as Self
1989ZDF-Mittagsmagazin as Self
1989Blauer Panther as Self
1979Bavarian Film Awards as Self
1976Kölner Treff as Self
19743 nach 9 as Self
1970Scene of the Crime as Johanna Kemmerlang
1951German Film Award as Self

