Helena Zengel
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Helena Zengel (German: [ˈhɛlena ˈtsɛŋl̩]; born June 10, 2008) is a German actress.[1] She is best known for her roles in the films System Crasher (2019) and News of the World (2020)
Zengel was born and raised in Berlin, Germany, and began her acting career at the age of five in a music video for the Berlin Alternative rock band Abby. Her first main role in a film, at the age of eight, was in a drama film, Die Tochter (The Daughter), which was written and directed by Mascha Schilinski and shown at the Berlinale 2017.[2][3] She also had small parts in two episodes of a German TV series, Die Spezialisten – Im Namen der Opfer. In the drama film System Crasher, written and directed by Nora Fingscheidt, which premiered in February 2019 at the Berlinale, Zengel plays the leading role of “Benni”, an aggressive and traumatised nine-year old.[4] In April 2020 she won German Film Prize for Best Actress.[5] 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. In this adaptation of the 2016 novel of the same name by Canadian-American writer Paulette Jiles, Zengel stars as a 10-year-old German orphan named Johanna Leonberger, while Tom Hanks stars as Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd. While travelling Northern Texas in 1870, Kidd finds Johanna after her African-American escort has been lynched. After living for six years as the adopted daughter in a tribe of Kiowa, Johanna has BIA papers saying that she is to be taken across lawless Texan territory to rejoin her German relatives in Castroville, near San Antonio.[6][7] For her performance, Zengel received nominations for a Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.[8][9]
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