Josefine Preuß (born 13 January 1986) is a German television actress.
Early life
Preuß was born in
Zehdenick
Zehdenick is a town in the Oberhavel district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated on the river Havel, southeast of Fürstenberg/Havel, and north of Berlin (centre). Since 31 July 2013, the city has the additional appellation "Havelstadt".
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,
Brandenburg
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, near
Berlin
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with an older sister. She won the Brandenburg Junior Championships in rhythmic gymnastics in 1993.
Career
Her breakthrough role was Anna Reichenbach in ''
Schloss Einstein
''Schloss Einstein'' is a long-running, popular German television series which is designed as a teenage soap opera. It portrays the lives of teenagers in Schloss Einstein (Castle Einstein), a fictional boarding school. The intended audience is 1 ...
'' (''Einstein Castle''), a broadcast for children, in which she starred from 1999 to 2001. Preuß also starred in numerous other movies and broadcasts like ''
Abschnitt 40'' or ''Klassenfahrt - Geknutscht wird immer''. She won the German TV Award
for Best Supporting Actress in 2005.
Since 2005, she has been playing Lena, the lead role in the family comedy
Türkisch für Anfänger (''Turkish for Beginners'').
As "Josi" she hosts ''Quergelesen'', a TV show for children about books. As a voice actor, she performed the German voices for Mary Katherine in the 2013 film
''Epic'' and as Judy Hopps in the 2016 film ''
Zootropolis''.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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1986 births
Living people
People from Zehdenick
German film actresses
German child actresses
German television actresses
21st-century German actresses
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