Julia Jentsch
Known for: Acting
Born: February 20, 1978
Place of birth: Berlin, Germany
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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Filmography
41 movies · 25 TV shows, newest first
4.8
Prosecution
2026
NR
A Happy Family
2026
6.0
Drunter & Drüber - Chaos auf dem Friedhof
2025
6.4
What Marielle Knows
2025
NR
Electric Fields
2024
5.0
8 Days in August
2024
4.3
The Hippocratic Silence
2022
5.1
Monte Verità
2021
6.4
Once Were Rebels
2020
6.4
Lindenberg! Mach dein Ding
2020
5.0
FrauMutterTier
2019
7.5
Pagan Peak
2019
3.3
I'm (Endless Like the Space)
2017
6.5
Das Verschwinden
2017
5.9
Ostfriesenkrimis
2017
5.8
To Make a Comedy Is No Fun
2016
6.5
24 Weeks
2016
5.1
The Have-Nots
2016
5.9
All of a Sudden
2016
5.0
Men Have to Go through This
2015
5.1
The Chosen Ones
2014
6.5
Monsoon Baby
2014
NR
Not Quite a Simple Story
2013
6.0
Kokowääh 2
2013
7.8
The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich
2013
6.9
Hannah Arendt
20126.0
Speechless
2012
8.0
Kommissar Marthaler
2012
7.1
Hut in the Woods
2011
6.4
Chalet Girl
2011
5.8
Here Comes Lola!
2010
5.1
The Murder Farm
2009
5.0
Effi Briest
2009
5.1
33 Scenes from Life
2008
7.5
Suddenly Gina
2007
6.8
I Served the King of England
2007
5.2
Kronprinz Rudolf
20066.0
Thadeusz
20054.0
G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
2005
7.1
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
2005
5.0
Snowland
2005
7.2
The Edukators
2004
7.9
Downfall
2004
6.0
Kulturplatz
20047.7
Sarah Kuttner – Die Show
20047.0
Othello
2003
5.6
My Brother the Vampire
20025.3
Bloch
20028.0
Und die Braut wusste von nichts
20029.0
Die Erpressung - Ein teuflischer Pakt
2001
4.3
Julietta
20018.0
German Television Award
19994.4
Volle Kanne
19997.5
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998NR
Alpha Forum
1998
2.0
Die Verbrechen des Professor Capellari
19986.0
Dr. Sommerfeld - Neues vom Bülowbogen
1997NR
Nachtstudio
19976.0
ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
1989NR
Blauer Panther
1989NR
Bavarian Film Awards
1979
6.8
Kölner Treff
19767.2
3 nach 9
1974
6.2
Scene of the Crime
19706.0
German Film Award
1951NR
Die hellen Tage
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