Josephine Jacob (born 30 September 1981) is a German actress.

Life

Jacob is the daughter of actress

Katerina Jacob Katerina Jacob (born 1 March 1958 in Munich) is a German actress. In addition to German citizenship she also holds Canadian citizenship. Life and career Jacob comes from an artistic family: her mother was the actress Ellen Schwiers, her father ...

and director Oswald Döpke and the granddaughter of actress

Ellen Schwiers Ellen Schwiers (11 June 1930 – 26 April 2019) was a German actress of stage, film, and television. She was featured in world premieres of plays by Dürrenmatt and Frisch at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, and appeared as Buhlschaft in '' Jed ...

.''Fast 35 Jahre nach ihrer Geburt: Katerina Jacob verrät, wer der Vater ihrer Tochter ist''
s.S. t-online.de She attended the

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and Mastery Workshops in Vancouver, where she was trained by Ty Olsson and Linda Darfow and received voice training from Trish Allen.Josephine Jacob
s.S. mr-management.de Since 1998, she has played a number of roles in German

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and films, such as the 2001 movie comedy ''

Mädchen, Mädchen ''Mädchen, Mädchen'' (English: ''Girls, Girls''), also known as ''Girls on Top'', is a 2001 German film directed by Dennis Gansel. Its story is about an eighteen-year-old girl named Inken ( Diana Amft), who is frustrated at not having had an ...

'', where, in addition to Diana Amft, Felicitas Woll and

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played one of the girls. In the same year she appeared in the romantic action comedy ''Painful Welcome'' in the lead role of Ariane Schlagzu. A supporting role as Pretty Girl in 2002 was her first engagement in

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in the action crime film '' Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever'', in which

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and

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played the lead roles. In the US television series ''

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'', she starred in an episode in 2005. Under the direction of her grandmother Ellen Schwiers, Jacob played a minor role at the Burgfest in Jagsthausen in the plays ''The Knight of Miracle'' and ''

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''. Jacob is in a long term relationship with actor

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. They have two sons, including Gabriel Jacob-Cross, who is known for his roles on ''

Snowpiercer ''Snowpiercer'' () is a 2013 Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, post-apocalyptic action thriller film based on the French climate fiction graphic novel ''Le Transperceneige'' by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette. The f ...

'' (2020), ''Legion'' (2017), ''The Man in the High Castle'' (2015) and the Hallmark film ''A Christmas Miracle'' (2019).

Filmography

* 1998: Ein Fleisch und Blut (TV film) * 1999:

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(TV series, episode: ''Leidenschaften'') * 2000: Rausch (Short) * 2001:

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(TV series, episode: ''Kinder'') * 2001:

* 2001: Schmerzlich willkommen (TV series) * 2002: Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever * 2002:

Der Bulle von Tölz ''The Bull from/of Tölz'' (in German: is a German television series which has been produced and broadcast by Sat.1 since 1996. As of January 2009, 69 self-contained feature-length episodes have been made. Genre Set in the small city of Bad T� ...

: Tod nach der Disco * 2002:

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* 2002: Morgenstund (Short) * 2003: Die Stimmen (TV film) * 2003: Today (Short) * 2004: Lucky Stars * 2005:

(''The L Word'', TV series, episode: ''Labyrinth'') * 2009, 2010: Geschichten aus den Bergen, Traum meines Lebens (TV film + TV series) * 2010: Klovn: The Movie

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jacob, Josephine 1981 births Living people People from Starnberg German emigrants to Canada German film actresses German stage actresses German television actresses 20th-century German actresses 21st-century German actresses Actresses from Bavaria