Helena Zengel
Helena Zengel (born June 10, 2008 in Berlin) 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.
A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople,...
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System Crasher
as BenniWherever 9-year-old Benni ends up, she is expelled. She has become what child protection...
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The Legend of Ochi
as YuriIn a remote northern village, a young girl, Yuri, is raised to never go outside after dark and...
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A Christmas Number One
as Nina CutterMeg, a music manager, travels from New York to London to manage a boy band, Five Together, and...
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Transamazonia
as Rebecca ByrneRebecca, the daughter of missionary Lawrence Byrne, was declared a “miracle” after she survived...
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Looping
as LillyThree women, three different stories, one room in a psychiatric clinic. A strong and tumultuous...
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Dark Blue Girl
as LucaLuca is a strong-willed, soulful seven-year-old. After a two-year separation, her parents take...
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Inga Lindström
as MillaSeries written by Christiane Sadlo about writer and journalist under the pseudonym "Inga...
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Sebastian Fitzek's Therapy
as Josy LarenzWith no witnesses, no traces, and no corpse, Josy, the 13-year-old daughter of well-known...
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