Helena Zengel

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.

  • Title: Helena Zengel
  • Popularity: 4.179
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 2008-06-10
  • Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
  • Homepage: http://www.helenazengel.com
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Helena Zengel Movies

  • 2025
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    The Legend of Ochi

    The Legend of Ochi

    1 2025 HD

    In a remote northern village, a young girl, Yuri, is raised to never go outside after dark and to fear the reclusive forest creatures known as the...

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  • 2021
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    A Christmas Number One

    A Christmas Number One

    5.742 2021 HD

    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...

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  • 2017
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    Sommermärchen

    Sommermärchen

    1 2017 HD

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  • 2016
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    Flowerpower

    Flowerpower

    1 2016 HD

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  • 2024
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    Transamazonia

    Transamazonia

    8 2024 HD

    Rebecca, the daughter of missionary Lawrence Byrne, was declared a “miracle” after she survived a plane crash as a child, deep in the...

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  • 2017
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    Dark Blue Girl

    Dark Blue Girl

    7 2017 HD

    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...

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  • 2016
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    Looping

    Looping

    6.4 2016 HD

    Three women, three different stories, one room in a psychiatric clinic. A strong and tumultuous relationship erupts among them, evolving into an...

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  • 2016
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    Route B96

    Route B96

    5 2016 HD

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  • 2019
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    System Crasher

    System Crasher

    7.665 2019 HD

    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...

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  • 2020
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    News of the World

    News of the World

    7 2020 HD

    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.

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  • 2017
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    Der gute Bulle

    Der gute Bulle

    7.5 2017 HD

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  • 2020
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    Baby Bitchka

    Baby Bitchka

    1 2020 HD

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  • 2016
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    Die Spezialisten – Im Namen der Opfer

    Die Spezialisten – Im Namen der Opfer

    4 2016 HD

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  • 2016
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    Die Spezialisten – Im Namen der Opfer

    Die Spezialisten – Im Namen der Opfer

    4 2016 HD

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  • 1979
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    NDR Talk Show

    NDR Talk Show

    6.5 1979 HD

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  • 2023
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    Sebastian Fitzek's Therapy

    Sebastian Fitzek's Therapy

    7.3 2023 HD

    With no witnesses, no traces, and no corpse, Josy, the 13-year-old daughter of well-known psychiatrist Viktor Larenz, has disappeared in unexplained...

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  • 2004
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    Inga Lindström

    Inga Lindström

    4.5 2004 HD

    Series written by Christiane Sadlo about writer and journalist under the pseudonym "Inga Lindström" and her family. Characterized by impressive...

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  • 1992
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    Riverboat

    Riverboat

    5.5 1992 HD

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  • 2015
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    Wer weiß denn sowas?

    Wer weiß denn sowas?

    7.6 2015 HD

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