
Julia Jentsch
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

Prosecution
2026
as Alexandra Tiedemann

A Happy Family
2026
as Sabine Gubler

What Marielle Knows
2025
as Julia

Electric Fields
2024

8 Days in August
2024
as Helena

The Hippocratic Silence
2022
as Clara Horn

Monte Verità
2021
as Ida Hofmann

Once Were Rebels
2020
as Helene

Lindenberg! Mach dein Ding
2020
as Hermine Lindenberg

FrauMutterTier
2019
as Marie Wohlenberg

I'm (Endless Like the Space)
2017
as Maria

To Make a Comedy Is No Fun
2016

24 Weeks
2016
as Astrid

The Have-Nots
2016
as Isabelle

All of a Sudden
2016
as Laura

Men Have to Go through This
2015
as Lena

The Chosen Ones
2014
as Petra Grust (jung)

Monsoon Baby
2014
as Nina

Not Quite a Simple Story
2013

Kokowääh 2
2013
as Nicks Mutter

The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich
2013
as Eva Reich

Hannah Arendt
2012
as Lotte Köhler
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Speechless
2012
as Julia Jentsch

Hut in the Woods
2011
as Petra