Helena Zengel
Biography
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.
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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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Filmography
- TBAExploding DucksFilm
- 2026Bloody TennisFilm: Heidi
- 2025TransamazoniaFilm: Rebecca Byrne
- 2025The Legend of OchiFilm: Yuri
- 2023Sebastian Fitzek's TherapySeries: Josy Larenz (6 episodes)
- 2023INTIMATE.Series: Nyla (3 episodes)
- 2021A Christmas Number OneFilm: Nina Cutter
- 2020News of the WorldFilm: Johanna Leonberger
- 2020Baby BitchkaFilm: spielendes Mädchen
- 2019System CrasherFilm: Benni
- 2017Der gute BulleFilm: Fabienne
- 2017SommermärchenFilm: Lilly Weyer
- 2017Dark Blue GirlFilm: Luca
- 2016Route B96Film: Karlotta
- 2016LoopingFilm: Lilly
- 2016Never Too Late for JusticeSeries: Anja Rothmann (jung), Lilly Weyer (1 episode)
- 2004Inga LindströmSeries: Milla (1 episode)
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