Julia Jentsch
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Julia Jentsch

Born 20 February 1978 · Berlin, Germany
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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

Downfall
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
The Edukators
Hannah Arendt
Pagan Peak
Kokowääh 2
I Served the King of England
Lindenberg! Mach dein Ding
24 Weeks
The Murder Farm
All of a Sudden
Hut in the Woods
Prosecution
A Happy Family
Frieda
What Marielle Knows
8 Days in August
Electric Fields
The Hippocratic Silence
Monte Verità
Lindenberg! Mach dein Ding
Once Were Rebels
FrauMutterTier
I'm (Endless Like the Space)
24 Weeks
All of a Sudden
The Have-Nots
Men Have to Go through This
The Chosen Ones
Monsoon Baby
The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich
Kokowääh 2
Not Quite a Simple Story
Hannah Arendt
Hut in the Woods
Here Comes Lola!
The Murder Farm
Effi Briest
33 Scenes from Life
Suddenly Gina
I Served the King of England
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
Snowland
The Edukators
Downfall
My Brother the Vampire
Julietta
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