Josephine Jacob

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

Life Jacob is the daughter of actress Katerina Jacob and director Oswald Döpke and the granddaughter of actress Ellen Schwiers. She attended the New York Film Academy and Mastery Workshops in Vancouver, where she was trained by Ty Olsson and Linda Darfow and received voice training from Trish Allen.

Since 1998, she has played a number of roles in German television production and films, such as the 2001 movie comedy Mädchen, Mädchen, where, in addition to Diana Amft, Felicitas Woll and Karoline Herfurth 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 Hollywood in the action crime film Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, in which Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu played the lead roles. In the US television series The L Word, she starred in an episode in 2005.

Filmography 1998: Ein Fleisch und Blut (TV film) 1999: Schlosshotel Orth (TV series, episode: Leidenschaften) 2000: Rausch (Short) 2001: Café Meineid (TV series, episode: Kinder) 2001: Mädchen, Mädchen 2001: Schmerzlich willkommen (TV series) 2002: Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever 2002: Der Bulle von Tölz: Tod nach der Disco 2002: Schlosshotel Orth 2002: Morgenstund (Short) 2003: Die Stimmen (TV film) 2003: Today (Short) 2004: Lucky Stars 2005: The L Word (The L Word, TV series, episode: Labyrinth) 2009, 2010: Geschichten aus den Bergen, Traum meines Lebens (TV film + TV series) 2010: Klovn: The Movie