Julia Jentsch
Acting
1978-02-20 · 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.
Filmography
TheatersProsecution
2026 · Movie
TheatersA Happy Family
2026 · Movie
Drunter & Drüber - Chaos auf dem Friedhof
2025 · Series
What Marielle Knows
2025 · Movie
Electric Fields
2024 · Movie
8 Days in August
2024 · Movie
The Hippocratic Silence
2022 · Movie
Monte Verità
2021 · Movie
Once Were Rebels
2020 · Movie
Lindenberg! Mach dein Ding
2020 · Movie
FrauMutterTier
2019 · Movie
Pagan Peak
2019 · Series
I'm (Endless Like the Space)
2017 · Movie
Das Verschwinden
2017 · Series
Ostfriesenkrimis
2017 · Series
To Make a Comedy Is No Fun
2016 · Movie
24 Weeks
2016 · Movie
The Have-Nots
2016 · Movie
All of a Sudden
2016 · Movie
Men Have to Go through This
2015 · Movie
The Chosen Ones
2014 · Movie
Monsoon Baby
2014 · Movie
Not Quite a Simple Story
2013 · Movie
Kokowääh 2
2013 · Movie
The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich
2013 · Movie
Hannah Arendt
2012 · Movie
Speechless
2012 · Movie
Kommissar Marthaler
2012 · Series
Hut in the Woods
2011 · Movie
Chalet Girl
2011 · Movie
Here Comes Lola!
2010 · Movie
The Murder Farm
2009 · Movie
Effi Briest
2009 · Movie
33 Scenes from Life
2008 · Movie
Suddenly Gina
2007 · Movie
I Served the King of England
2007 · Movie
Kronprinz Rudolf
2006 · Series
Thadeusz
2005 · Series
G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
2005 · Series
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
2005 · Movie
Snowland
2005 · Movie
The Edukators
2004 · Movie
Downfall
2004 · Movie
Kulturplatz
2004 · Series
Sarah Kuttner – Die Show
2004 · Series
Othello
2003 · Movie
My Brother the Vampire
2002 · Movie
Bloch
2002 · Series
Und die Braut wusste von nichts
2002 · Movie
Die Erpressung - Ein teuflischer Pakt
2001 · Movie
Julietta
2001 · Movie
German Television Award
1999 · Series
Volle Kanne
1999 · Series
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998 · Series
Alpha Forum
1998 · Series
Die Verbrechen des Professor Capellari
1998 · Series
Dr. Sommerfeld - Neues vom Bülowbogen
1997 · Series
Nachtstudio
1997 · Series
ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
1989 · Series
Blauer Panther
1989 · Series
Bavarian Film Awards
1979 · Series
Kölner Treff
1976 · Series
3 nach 9
1974 · Series
Scene of the Crime
1970 · Series
German Film Award
1951 · Series
Die hellen Tage
Movie