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 ...
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Complete Filmography
Transamazonia
2025
as Rebecca Byrne
Rebecca, the daughter of missionary Lawrence Byrne, was declared a “miracle” after she survived a plane crash as a child, deep in the Amazon Forest. Y...
The Legend of Ochi
2025
as Yuri
In a remote village on the island of Carpathia, a shy farm girl named Yuri is raised to fear an elusive animal species known as ochi. But when Yuri di...
A Christmas Number One
2021
as Nina Cutter
Meg, a music manager, travels from New York to London to manage a boy band, Five Together, and find them a Christmas number one to bolster their flagg...
News of the World
2020
as Johanna Leonberger
A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped.
Baby Bitchka
2020
as spielendes Mädchen
Sascha lives in Berlin. She is 23 years old and doesn't really know what to do with herself. She has been walking the streets of Berlin for days and n...
System Crasher
2019
as Benni
Wherever 9-year-old Benni ends up, she is expelled. She has become what child protection services call a “system crasher.” But she is not looking to c...
Der gute Bulle
2017
as Fabienne
A small paper umbrella attracts the attention of Fredo Schulz when chief detectives Milan Filipovic and Lola Karras visit him at the North Sea. A seve...
Sommermärchen
2017
as Lilly Weyer
Dark Blue Girl
2017
as Luca
Luca is a strong-willed, soulful seven-year-old. After a two-year separation, her parents take her on a trip to pack up and sell their vacation home o...
Route B96
2016
as Karlotta
"You can take a man out of the small town - but you can't take the small town out of the man." Clemens Wolf plays bass in a US band and takes advantag...
Looping
2016
as Lilly
Three women, three different stories, one room in a psychiatric clinic. A strong and tumultuous relationship erupts among them, evolving into an energ...
Bloody Tennis
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as Heidi
Sophie is accepted into an elite tennis academy in Spain. But the price for success as the best tennis player in the world is high and may even claim ...