Julia Jentsch
Acting • Born 1978-02-20
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
64 credits
The Edukators
Movie • 2004
Jule
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
Movie • 2005
Sophie Magdalena Scholl
Snowland
Movie • 2005
Inna
Suddenly Gina
Movie • 2007
Gina Franke
8 Days in August
Movie • 2024
Helena
The Murder Farm
Movie • 2009
Kathrin
I Served the King of England
Movie • 2007
Líza
Effi Briest
Movie • 2009
Effi Briest
Here Comes Lola!
Movie • 2010
Viktualia Vicky' Veloso
Julietta
Movie • 2001
Nicole
Electric Fields
Movie • 2024
33 Scenes from Life
Movie • 2008
Julia
My Brother the Vampire
Movie • 2002
Nadine
Hut in the Woods
Movie • 2011
Petra
Hannah Arendt
Movie • 2012
Lotte Köhler
Chalet Girl
Movie • 2011
The Race Starter (uncredited)
The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich
Movie • 2013
Eva Reich
Kokowääh 2
Movie • 2013
Nicks Mutter
The Hippocratic Silence
Movie • 2022
Clara Horn
The Chosen Ones
Movie • 2014
Petra Grust (jung)
Die Erpressung - Ein teuflischer Pakt
Movie • 2001
Chrissie Kramer
Men Have to Go through This
Movie • 2015
Lena
Monsoon Baby
Movie • 2014
Nina
Und die Braut wusste von nichts
Movie • 2002
Caroline Mierendorff
Downfall
Movie • 2004
Hanna Potrowski
24 Weeks
Movie • 2016
Astrid
All of a Sudden
Movie • 2016
Laura
The Have-Nots
Movie • 2016
Isabelle
Not Quite a Simple Story
Movie • 2013
I'm (Endless Like the Space)
Movie • 2017
Maria
Othello
Movie • 2003
Desdemona
FrauMutterTier
Movie • 2019
Marie Wohlenberg
Lindenberg! Mach dein Ding
Movie • 2020
Hermine Lindenberg
Once Were Rebels
Movie • 2020
Helene
To Make a Comedy Is No Fun
Movie • 2016
Monte Verità
Movie • 2021
Ida Hofmann
What Marielle Knows
Movie • 2025
Julia
Die hellen Tage
Movie
Prosecution
Movie • 2026
Alexandra Tiedemann
ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
TV • 1989
Self
Die Verbrechen des Professor Capellari
TV • 1998
Christina Hofer
Bloch
TV • 2002
Laura
Thadeusz
TV • 2005
Kölner Treff
TV • 1976
Self
Dr. Sommerfeld - Neues vom Bülowbogen
TV • 1997
Svenja Bergmann
German Television Award
TV • 1999
Self
Das Verschwinden
TV • 2017
Michelle Grabowski
Scene of the Crime
TV • 1970
Johanna Kemmerlang
Kommissar Marthaler
TV • 2012
Kirsten Höpfner
Pagan Peak
TV • 2019
Ellie Stocker
German Film Award
TV • 1951
Self
Blauer Panther
TV • 1989
Self
Bavarian Film Awards
TV • 1979
Self
Volle Kanne
TV • 1999
Self
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
TV • 1998
Self
Kronprinz Rudolf
TV • 2006
Sarah
Ostfriesenkrimis
TV • 2017
Ann Kathrin Klaasen
Alpha Forum
TV • 1998
Self
3 nach 9
TV • 1974
Self
Kulturplatz
TV • 2004
Self
Nachtstudio
TV • 1997
Self
G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
TV • 2005
Self
Sarah Kuttner – Die Show
TV • 2004
self - guest
Drunter & Drüber - Chaos auf dem Friedhof
TV • 2025
Ursula Fink