Name
Leonie Benesch
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1991-04-22 (35 years old)
Place of Birth
Hamburg, Germany
Biography
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.
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Micha unwittingly becomes a German hero when a journalist portrays him as the mastermind b...
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- 2009 The White Ribbon as Eva
- 2011 Picco as Kevins Girlfriend
- 2013 George as Margot Hanke
- 2013 Das Jerusalem-Syndrom as Maria
- 2013 Die Flut ist pünktlich as Mia Halbach
- 2023 The Teachers' Lounge as Carla Nowak
- 2007 Beautiful Bitch as Gitti
- 2024 September 5 as Marianne Gebhardt
- 2014 Viking Women as Jova
- 2025 Berlin Hero as Natalie Hartung
- 2015 8 Seconds as Helen
- 2011 Colors in the Dark as Yvonne
- 2010 Eine feste Burg as Katja Klein
- 2018 1929 - Das Jahr Babylon
- 2020 Persian Lessons as Elsa
- 2019 The Master Butcher as Eva
- 2020 Phoenix
- 2025 Late Shift as Floria Lind
- 2027 ZOMA as Elli Schreiber
- 2027 Mädchen in Uniform
- Soon Heureka
- 2017 Howards End ( 4 episodes ) as Frieda Mosenbach
- 2006 Der Kriminalist ( 1 episode ) as Clarissa von Tannenhof
- 2012 Murder in the North ( 1 episode ) as Gaby Zinke
- 1970 Scene of the Crime ( 1 episode ) as Julia
- 2017 Babylon Berlin ( 28 episodes ) as Greta Overbeck
- 2003 SOKO Köln ( 1 episode ) as Nadia Winkowski
- 2016 The Crown ( 3 episodes ) as Princess Cecilie
- 1997 Leute heute ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2024 Moresnet ( 6 episodes ) as Eva Rolin
- 2023 The Swarm ( 8 episodes ) as Charlie Wagner
- 2019 Brecht ( 1 episode ) as Young Elisabeth Hauptmann
- 2019 Holiday Secrets ( 3 episodes )
- 2020 The Turncoat ( 4 episodes ) as Hildegard Roth
- 2021 Around the World in 80 Days ( 8 episodes ) as Abigail 'Fix' Fortescue
- 2019 Der Club der singenden Metzger ( 4 episodes ) as Eva
- 2019 Vienna Blood ( 2 episodes ) as Helena Rieger
- 2020 Spy City ( 6 episodes ) as Eliza Hahn
- 2017 Counterpart ( 2 episodes ) as Sofia
- 2026 Prisoner ( 6 episodes ) as Nina Drâgus
