Julika Jenkins

{{short description|German actress (born 1971)}}

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| birth_place = Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany

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| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 1993–present

| known_for = Dark

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Julika Jenkins (born 20 October 1971) is a German actress.{{cite web|title=Julia Jenkins |url=http://www.kulturserver.de/-/kulturschaffende/detail/40897 |website=kulturserver.de |date= |accessdate=27 May 2020 |language=de}} She lives in Berlin with her partner, actor Arnd Klawitter. She has appeared in stage, television, and film productions in Switzerland and Germany. She is best known for her role as Claudia Tiedemann in the German Netflix original series Dark.

Biography

Jenkins grew up in Heidelberg, the daughter of a Welsh and German couple. She completed her acting training at the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts in Munich. She made her theatre debut in 1993 in a production of The Moon in the Grass by Robert Wilson at the Munich Kammerspiele theatre. From 1994 to 1999, Jenkins belonged to the ensemble at the Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich, Switzerland. From 1999 until 2003, she performed at the Schaubühne theatre on Lehniner Platz in Berlin. Guest performances followed at a number of theatres in Switzerland and Germany.

In 2006, Jenkins got a role in the Fredi M. Murer film Vitus, where she starred alongside real-life piano prodigy Teo Gheorghiu, as well as Bruno Ganz and Urs Jucker.{{cite web|title=Vitus: Interview mit Julika Jenkins |url=https://www.kulturwoche.at/podcasts/filmkultur/720-interview-mit-julika-jenkins |website=kulturwoche.at |date=17 December 2006 |accessdate=27 May 2020 |language=de |trans-title=Vitus: Interview with Julika Jenkins}} In 2009, Jenkins appeared again on the big screen next to Jean-Paul Belmondo in A Man and His Dog, a remake of the Vittorio De Sica classic Umberto D.

Since 2017, she has appeared in the Netflix original series Dark as Claudia Tiedemann.{{cite news |last1=Thomas |first1=Kaitlin |title=How Everyone in Netflix's Dark Is Connected |url=https://www.tvguide.com/news/dark-how-everything-connected-netflix/ |accessdate=27 May 2020 |work=TV Guide |date=22 June 2019}}

Selected filmography

=Television=

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Year

! Title

! Role

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2003

|Tatort

|Roswitha Baermann

|1 episode

2004

|SK Kölsch

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|1 episode

2007

|KDD – Kriminaldauerdienst

|

|4 episodes

2009, 2015

|Notruf Hafenkante

|different roles

|2 episodes

2010

|Allein gegen die Zeit

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|4 episodes

2010, 2011

|Tatort

|Staatsanwältin Johannson / Dr. Antje Berger

|2 episodes

2010

|SOKO Wismar

|

|1 episode

2011

|Tatort

|Nadine Joswig

|1 episode

2014–2020

|Letzte Spur Berlin

|

|3 episodes

2015

|Der Kriminalist

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|1 episode

2015, 2018

|Stuttgart Homicide

|different roles

|2 episodes

rowspan=2|2016

|Berlin Station

|Ruth Iosava

|6 episodes

Tatort

|Carmen Hartmann / Cornelia Mai

|2 episodes

2017–2020

|Dark

|Claudia Tiedemann

|14 episodes

2019

|Tatort

|Birte Knopp

|1 episode

2020

|Polizeiruf 110

|Dr. Regine Arnim

|1 episode

2023

|Dear Child

|Karin Beck

|6 episodes

=Film=

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|+ {{Sronly|List of film appearances, with year, title, and role shown}}

Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

2006

|Vitus

|Helen Von Holzen

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2008

|A Man and His Dog

|Jeanne

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2015

|The Nightmare

|Tina's mother

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References

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