Leonie Benesch

Leonie Benesch

Born: April 22, 1991
in Hamburg, Germany
Leonie Benesch (born April 22, 1991) is a German actress who has played roles in major productions including Babylon Berlin and The Crown, as well as Around the World in 80 Days. She is currently based in London.

In 2009, Benesch played the role of Eva in the film The White Ribbon, which won the Golden Palm. Film critics singled out her performance as "a discovery". She received the American "Young Artist Award" for her work, as well as a "New Faces Award". In 2010, she performed in Philip Koch's drama Picco and in Sophie Heldman's film Colors in the Dark (Satte Farben vor Schwarz), where she worked alongside Senta Berger and Bruno Ganz.

In 2017, Benesch performed in Babylon Berlin as Greta Overbeck, winning the "German Acting Prize". Benesch also performed in The Crown as the sister of Prince Philip, Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark. In 2020, she was cast in the BBC miniseries Around the World in 80 Days, alongside David Tennant as Phileas Fogg and Ibrahim Koma as Passepartout.

Benesch grew up in Tübingen, and attended the Freie Waldorfschule. She also attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She is of French and Transylvanian descent.

Movies for Leonie Benesch...

September 5
Title: September 5
Released: September 19, 2024
Type: Movie
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The Teachers' Lounge
Title: The Teachers' Lounge
Character: Carla Nowak
Released: May 4, 2023
Type: Movie
When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.
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Title: The Swarm
Character: Charlie Wagner
Released: March 6, 2023
Type: TV
Across the globe, strange happenings, borne out of the oceans, are mystifying and imperiling the world’s population. A group of scientists undertakes a terrifying mission to the depths of the Arctic Ocean to confront a deadly intelligent life force bent on human extinction.
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Title: Around the World in 80 Days
Character: Abigail 'Fix' Fortescue
Released: December 5, 2021
Type: TV
Following an outrageous bet, Fogg and his valet, Passepartout, take on the legendary journey of circumnavigating the globe in just 80 days, swiftly joined by aspiring journalist Abigail Fix, who seizes the chance to report on this extraordinary story.
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Title: Spy City
Character: Eliza Hahn
Released: December 3, 2020
Type: TV
After a defector is murdered, British agent Fielding Scott is assigned to track down a mole in his own ranks in 1961 Berlin. His investigation leads him into a deadly web of crime, betrayal and paranoia. Who can Scott trust in the city of spies?
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Persian Lessons
Title: Persian Lessons
Character: Elsa
Released: April 17, 2020
Type: Movie
Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by inventing words of "Farsi" every day and teaching them to Koch.
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Title: The Turncoat
Character: Hildegard Roth
Released: April 8, 2020
Type: TV
Summer 1944. Walter Proska is about to return to the Eastern Front when his train is blown up by partisans. Together with a scattered bunch of German soldiers, cut off from the front, he awaits certain death while the commands of his superior Willi Stehauf are becoming more and more senseless and inhuman.
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The Turncoat
Title: The Turncoat
Released: April 1, 2020
Type: Movie
Walter Proska is a young Wehrmacht soldier who begins to question the purpose of the war, who the real enemy is and whether his real duty should be to his fatherland or his own conscience.
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Phoenix
Title: Phoenix
Released: January 21, 2020
Type: Movie
Anton is about to lose the two most important women in his life but it takes the story of the king's son to make him face his fate.
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The Master Butcher
Title: The Master Butcher
Character: Eva
Released: December 27, 2019
Type: Movie
After his return from World War I, there is no more work for Fidelis in his parents' butcher shop in Swabia, Germany. To make a better life for himself and Eva, the former fiancée of a friend who fell in battle, he emigrates to Argus, a town in North Dakota, in the United States. The artist Delphine, in whom Eva will find a friend, also moves there. To relieve Eva's homesickness, Fidelis founds a singing club.
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Title: Holiday Secrets
Released: November 20, 2019
Type: TV
A Christmas reunion becomes a gateway to the past in this three-part series that explores the intimate complexities of one family's history.
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Title: Der Club der singenden Metzger
Released: July 7, 2019
Type: TV
A young man and his wife struggling to create a good life for themselves in a new country. Based on Louise Erdrich's novel 'The Master Butchers Singing Club'.
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Title: Brecht
Character: Young Elisabeth Hauptmann
Released: March 22, 2019
Type: TV
East Berlin, 1956. Bertolt Brecht, revolutionary of the theater and poet of the state, looks back: his exploits as a teenager during the World War I; his romantic adventures during the twenties; the escape of the Nazi regime; the return from exile. The life of a timeless classic, a class fighter, an indefatigable free spirit, a committed artist.
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1929 – Das Jahr Babylon
Title: 1929 – Das Jahr Babylon
Released: September 30, 2018
Type: Movie
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Title: Howards End
Character: Frieda Mosenbach
Released: November 12, 2017
Type: TV
The social and class divisions in early 20th century England through the intersection of three families - the wealthy Wilcoxes, the gentle and idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts.
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Title: Babylon Berlin
Character: Greta Overbeck
Released: October 13, 2017
Type: TV
Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gereon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.
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Title: The Crown
Character: Princess Cecilie
Released: November 4, 2016
Type: TV
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
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8 Saniye
Title: 8 Saniye
Character: Helen
Released: February 27, 2015
Type: Movie
Esra leads two parallel lives. In her daily life the vivacious and spirited Esra adores her family but feels caged in her relationships. In her dream life, she yearns to discover the identity of the man who visits her dreams. While in waking life she struggles in vain, in her dream life she evolves in secret. But what if waking and dreaming were never separate and the real secret is shored by all?
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Viking Women
Title: Viking Women
Character: Jova
Released: September 13, 2014
Type: Movie
"VIKING WOMEN" gives completely new insights into a fascinating culture, about which it seemed everything was already known. Exclusive interviews with experts from around the globe draw an authentic picture of the Viking world according to the latest scientific findings. High quality recreations with an international top-class cast will lead us to the early medieval world of the Vikings and revive this fascinating, long-lost era. Based on characters of the Nordic sagas, the mini-series displays the life stories of two Viking women: those of Sigrun and Jova.
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Das Jerusalem-Syndrom
Title: Das Jerusalem-Syndrom
Character: Maria
Released: December 11, 2013
Type: Movie
A young pregnant woman who lives in Jerusalem believes she is going to bring the son of God into the world. Her older sister tries to convince her to return with her to Germany. Then the young woman disappears.
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Die Flut ist pünktlich
Title: Die Flut ist pünktlich
Character: Mia Halbach
Released: September 28, 2013
Type: Movie
A corpse is washed up on the beach of the North Sea. The deceased is Alexander, husband of the beautiful Bettina. They have been coming to the island for a long time and possess a cottage there. At first no one doubts that Alexander died of an accident, but the young policewoman Maike, who has known the family since her childhood, thinks that Alexander should have been familiar with the mudflat. Did he kill himself?
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George
Title: George
Character: Margot Hanke
Released: June 21, 2013
Type: Movie
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Title: Heiter bis tödlich - Morden im Norden
Character: Gaby Zinke
Released: February 21, 2012
Type: TV
Morden im Norden is a German Police that has been broadcast by Das Erste. The show is set in Lübeck, Germany Morden im Norden is part of a series of commonly branded shows with similar themes called "Heiter bis tödlich".
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Picco
Title: Picco
Character: Kevins Girlfriend
Released: February 3, 2011
Type: Movie
Kevin is new in youth prison. Due to over-occupancy he has to share a cell with Tommy, Andy and Marc. A partnership of convenience in a system where only the strong prevail and which is dominated by violence and latent aggression. Oppression and beatings are a daily occurence. It is hard for Kevin to establish himself. Especially Marc and Andy are after him. He's afraid of not sticking it out. Only Tommy gives him an amicable advice: In this system, you're either a victim or a culprit. If he doesn't want to be a loser anymore, he has to start fighting... A piece of advice that will trigger most dire consequences
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Colors in the Dark
Title: Colors in the Dark
Character: Yvonne
Released: January 13, 2011
Type: Movie
Anita and Fred have been a couple for 50 years, and happily married for nearly as long. They have two grown children, and their grandchildren are finishing school. Both can look back at a fulfilling past, but their lives are still rich and vibrant. The fact that Fred is terribly ill has been hidden from the family. For the first time in all these years, Fred takes some liberties, which his wife interprets as an affront. Never before has she felt so abandoned. Although she starts to question her relationship, a love like theirs cannot end so easily. Indeed it should never end.
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Eine feste Burg
Title: Eine feste Burg
Character: Katja Klein
Released: September 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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The White Ribbon
Title: The White Ribbon
Character: Eva
Released: September 24, 2009
Type: Movie
An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.
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Beautiful Bitch
Title: Beautiful Bitch
Character: Gitti
Released: October 26, 2007
Type: Movie
The story opens with Bica, a solvent abusing waif, trying in vain to evade the Romanian police with her infant brother in tow. Separated from her sibling she is taken to Germany, concealed in the trunk of a car. There she is trained as a thief, picking the pockets of strangers to fill those of her patron. One of her victims is the separated father of Milka, a brat with razor sharp tongue. From this unlikely start a friendship forms and Bica gets a glimpse into a world of material security, if not emotional closeness...
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Title: Der Kriminalist
Character: Clarissa von Tannenhof
Released: December 8, 2006
Type: TV
Der Kriminalist is a German television series produced by Monaco Film Hamburg, subsidiary of Odeon Film. Directors during the first season were Sherry Hormann and Torsten C. Fischer, during the second: Thomas Jahn, Jobst Oetzmann and Torsten C. Fischer.
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Title: SOKO Köln
Character: Nadia Winkowski
Released: October 22, 2003
Type: TV
The SOKO Köln investigates the cathedral city with humor and often with hard work. Their cases take them into a variety of environments, from the Cologne clique to the terraced housing estates on the outskirts of the city.
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Title: Leute heute
Character: Self
Released: July 23, 1997
Type: TV
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Julia
Released: November 29, 1970
Type: TV
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
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Title: Moresnet
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
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La Salle des profs
Title: La Salle des profs
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
When a series of thefts occurs in the teachers' lounge, Carla Nowak leads the investigation at the school where she teaches. The whole school is soon shaken by her discoveries...
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Der Held vom Bahnhof Friedrichstraße
Title: Der Held vom Bahnhof Friedrichstraße
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
All his life, Michael Hartung, owner of a hopelessly debt-ridden video store, has bet on the wrong horse. When an ambitious journalist confronts him with the results of his research, everything changes for the charmingly melancholy Micha. Many years ago, as an employee of the Reichsbahn, he is said to have organized the largest mass escape in the GDR. Stasi files prove the case. He was apparently even imprisoned and then deported to an open-cast lignite mine. Seduced by a lavish salary, Micha confirms the story, although only fragments of it are true.