Actor

Helena Zengel

Contemporaryb. 2008DramaAdventureCrimeFantasy

Chronicler of the Human Condition

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Known For

11 acting credits

as Johanna Leonberger

News of the World

as Johanna Leonberger

2020

News of the World

Filmography

2025The Legend of OchiYuri6.1 2025TransamazoniaRebecca Byrne6.2 2021A Christmas Number OneNina Cutter5.5 2020News of the WorldJohanna Leonberger6.9 2020Baby Bitchkaspielendes Mädchen 2019System CrasherBenni7.6

About

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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