Helena Zengel

Acting

Born 2008-06-10 Berlin, Germany 20 credits German Film Award 1

Awards

Nominated for 1 Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Awards 1 nominated

2021 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Nominated News of the World

German Film Award 1 won

2020 German Film Award Won System Crasher

European Film Award for Best Actress 1 nominated

2019 Best Actress Nominated System Crasher

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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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Filmography

Acting 19 credits