Jana McKinnon
Jana Naomi McKinnon (* 1999 in Korneuburg ) is an Austrian - Australian actress .
Life
Jana McKinnon was born to an Austrian and an Australian and grew up in Australia and Vienna . At the age of four she gained her first acting experience in a short film made by a family friend.
She had a leading role in 2015 in the film Beautiful Girl by director Dominik Hartl alongside Lilian Klebow and Hary Prinz , who play their parents in it. For this role she was honored as the best young actress at the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Film Festival. She was also nominated for the best young actress at the 2016 Romy Awards.
She had another leading role in the movie Everyone who falls has wings (director: Peter Brunner ), which was awarded the special jury prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in July 2015 and was released in Austrian cinemas in September 2016.
In 2018 McKinnon starred alongside Alli Neumann in Kim Frank's feature film Wach . For her portrayal in, she was awarded the New Faces Award for best young actress in 2020 . In the Amazon series Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo , a remake of the film Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo , she played the role of Christiane F.
Awards and nominations
- 2016: Romy Awards 2016 - nomination as best young actress
- 2019: Studio Hamburg Young Talent Award - nomination as best young actress for her role as C. in the film WACH
- 2020: New Faces Award - Best young actress for awake
Filmography (selection)
- 2007: I want to stay where I've never been, director: Libertad Hackl
- 2008: Revenge , directed by Götz Spielmann
- 2010: Marie-Horror Vacui, director: Bernadette Weigel
- 2013: My blind heart , directed by Peter Brunner
- 2015: Beautiful Girl , directed by Dominik Hartl
- 2015: Everyone who falls has wings , director: Peter Brunner
- 2015: Who never ate his bread with tears, directed by Henri Steinmetz
- 2016: The impossible picture, directed by Sandra Wollner
- 2016: Love May be , directed by Michael Kreihsl
- 2018: To the Night , director: Peter Brunner
- 2018: Awake , directed by Kim Frank
- 2019: Tatort: The Palatinate from Above , Director: Brigitte Maria Bertele
- 2019: Landkrimi - Steirerkreuz , director: Wolfgang Murnberger
- 2020: The Trouble with Being Born , directed by Sandra Wollner
Web links
- Jana McKinnon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jana McKinnon at filmportal.de
- Jana McKinnon at Crew United
- Jana McKinnon in the Moviepilot database
Individual evidence
- ↑ LunaFilm / Allegro Film: Beautiful Girl . Retrieved October 27, 2016.
- ^ Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Awards . Retrieved October 27, 2016.
- ↑ The ROMY Academy Awards will be awarded in 14 categories on April 14th. The nominations have been made. . Article dated March 15, 2016, accessed October 27, 2016.
- ↑ Romy 2016: Academy Awards are awarded in 14 categories . Article dated March 14, 2016, accessed October 27, 2016.
- ↑ NÖN: Everyone who falls has wings . Article dated July 30, 2015, accessed October 27, 2016.
- ↑ derStandard.at - See with your eyes closed . Article dated September 1, 2016, accessed October 27, 2016.
- ↑ 86 hours of reality . In: Der Tagesspiegel Online . September 17, 2018, ISSN 1865-2263 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed September 19, 2018]).
- ↑ a b Bunte: New Faces Award film now virtual. In: burda.com. July 1, 2020, accessed July 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Daniel Fabian: Amazon series "Christiane F.": These are the new children from Bahnhof Zoo (with picture). In: filmstarts.de . October 10, 2019, accessed October 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Studio Hamburg Young Talent Award 2019 announces the other nominations . Article dated May 10, 2019, accessed May 10, 2019.
- ↑ Colorful New Faces Award Film 2020: You are the lucky winners. In: Bunte.de. July 1, 2020, accessed July 2, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McKinnon, Jana |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | McKinnon, Jana Naomi (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-Australian actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1999 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Korneuburg |