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Helena Zengel
Berlin, Germany
Helena Zengel is a German actress. She is best known for her roles in the films System Crasher (2019) and News of the World (2020). After System Crasher won a number of internat…
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Helena Zengel is a German actress. She is best known for her roles in the films System Crasher (2019) and News of the World (2020). After System Crasher won a number of international awards, Zengel was cast by Universal Pictures to play a leading role in the American Western film News of the World directed by the British film director Paul Greengrass, which was her first international film. In this adaptation of the 2016 novel of the same name by Canadian-American writer Paulette Jiles, which starred Tom Hanks as Captain Jefferson Kidd, Zengel stars as a 10-year-old German orphan named Johanna Leonberger who was raised by the Kiowa; most of her performance is in the Kiowa language. For her performance, Zengel received nominations for a Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Zengel also dubbed herself in the Italian, German, French and Spanish versions; the dubbing is limited to the lines she spoke in English.
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2026
Bloody Tennis
Movie Heidi
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2025
Transamazonia
Movie Rebecca Byrne
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2025
The Legend of Ochi
Movie Yuri
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2023
Sebastian Fitzek's Therapy
TV show Josy Larenz
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2023
INTIMATE.
TV show Nyla
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2021
A Christmas Number One
Movie Nina Cutter
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2020
News of the World
Movie Johanna Leonberger
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2020
Baby Bitchka
Movie spielendes Mädchen
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2019
System Crasher
Movie Benni
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2017
Der gute Bulle
Movie Fabienne
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2017
Sommermärchen
Movie Lilly Weyer
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2017
Dark Blue Girl
Movie Luca
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2016
Route B96
Movie Karlotta
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2016
Looping
Movie Lilly
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2016
Never Too Late for Justice
TV show Anja Rothmann (jung)
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2015
Wer weiß denn sowas?
TV show Self
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2004
Inga Lindström
TV show Milla
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1992
Riverboat
TV show Self
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1979
NDR Talk Show
TV show Self
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Exploding Ducks
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