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Helena Zengel

Helena Zengel

Birthday: 2008-06-10 | Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany

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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
Transamazonia

as    Rebecca Byrne

2025
The Legend of Ochi

as    Yuri

2023
Sebastian Fitzek's Therapy

as    Josy Larenz

2021
A Christmas Number One

as    Nina Cutter

2020
News of the World

as    Johanna Leonberger

2020
Baby Bitchka

as    spielendes Mädchen

2019
System Crasher

as    Benni

2017
Dark Blue Girl

as    Luca

2016
Route B96

as    Karlotta

1
Bloody Tennis

as    Heidi