Leonie Benesch

Leonie Benesch (born April 22, 1991 in Hamburg ) is a German film actress .

Life

Benesch attended the Waldorf School in Tübingen .

In 2009 she played one of the leading roles in the film The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story, which was awarded the Golden Palm in Cannes . In this context, the critics called Benesch "a discovery".

For the European co-production, which reports on puzzling incidents in a north German village on the eve of the First World War , Benesch received the US Young Artist Award and the New Faces Award for best young actress together with Leonard Proxauf . In 2010 she was the friend of Constantin von Jascheroff in Philip Koch's drama Picco . In the same year she had a role in Sophie Heldman's feature film Satte Farben vor Schwarz, alongside Senta Berger and Bruno Ganz .

In 2017 Benesch was seen in the first two seasons of the ARD Degeto - Sky - Coproduction Babylon Berlin as Greta Overbeck, for which she received the German Acting Award. Also in 2017, Benesch played the sister Prince Philips , Princess Cecilia of Greece in two episodes of the British Netflix series The Crown .

Awards

• German Acting Award 2018 in the category of actress in a supporting role for Babylon Berlin

Filmography

• 2007: Beautiful Bitch
• 2009: The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story
• 2010: Picco
• 2011: Rich colors before black
• 2011: Dawn (short film)
• 2012: The Criminalist - Blue Blood
• 2012: SOKO Cologne - witness in fear
• 2012: Little Brothers (short film)
• 2013: Tatort: ​​Friends to the Dead
• 2013: The Jerusalem Syndrome (TV movie)
• 2014: The tide is on time
• 2014: The Women of the Vikings - Odin's Daughters
• 2017–2020: Babylon Berlin (TV series)
• 2017: The Crown (TV series)
• 2018: Murders in the North - Hunters and Gatherers (TV series)
• 2018: Counterpart (TV series)
• 2019: Brecht
• 2019: time of secrets
• 2019: The club of singing butchers
• 2020: Persian lessons
• 2020: The defector

Web links

• Leonie Benesch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Leonie Benesch at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Film talent Leonie Benesch “I was just extremely afraid that I would take off”. reutlingen.ihk.de, accessed on May 15, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Leonie Benesch: Exactly this naivete that Eva has. In: Die Presse , September 19, 2009.
3. ^ Cannes Film Festival: Haneke's Deadly Secret. In: Die Presse , May 21, 2009.
4. ↑ [1]
5. ^ German Acting Award: The Night of the Winners. Article dated September 14, 2018, accessed September 14, 2018.