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EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS 2023

Leonie Benesch • Actress

"I try to figure out what each project needs and what kind of world we try to tell"

by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2023: The German actress talks about her acting method and her career, and about who she dreams to work with

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German actress Leonie Benesch saw a stand-out year in 2021 leading BBC/PBS’s Around the World in 80 Days in the role of Abigail Fix alongside David Tennant. She will next be seen starring in several highly anticipated projects: the film The Teachers' Lounge [+see also:
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by Ilker Çatak and Frank Schätzing’s sci-fi thriller series The Swarm [+see also:
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, a TV adaptation of the bestselling novel. Benesch formally trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She received widespread critical acclaim for her portrayal of Greta in the hit German show Babylon Berlin by Tom Tykwer, Henk Handloegten and Achim von Borries, for which she won the German Acting Award.

Her breakout role in Michael Haneke's Golden Globe and Palme d'Or winner The White Ribbon [+see also:
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was praised by critics as "a discovery” and her performance earned her the American Young Artist Award and the Bunte New Faces Award. Her television credits include Princess Cecile in Netflix’s The Crown directed by Stephen Daldry, the series Spy City opposite Dominic Cooper and the mini-series Turncoat by Florian Gallenberger. Her film credits include Persian Lessons [+see also:
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by Vadim Perelman, which premiered at the Berlinale in 2020, 8 Seconds [+see also:
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by Ömer Faruk Sorak and Philip Koch's Picco [+see also:
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Now selected for EFP's 2023 Shooting Stars, she talks to us.

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