Julia Brendler

Julia Brendler — Biography

Julia Brendler is an actress who has been seen in German television crime series and TV films for more than thirty years. Having started as a teenager, she still works as a guest actress in productions such as the SOKO series, Großstadtrevier and Der letzte Bulle; Turkish audiences know her from the film Usta Beni Öldürsene.

She began acting at 14. Her first role, in Verbotene Liebe in 1989, earned her the Hessian film award. Dagmar Hirtz's Irish drama Moondance and the horror comedy Nur über meine Leiche (1995) followed. In the mid-1990s she appeared in the French series Terre indigo and in German television series such as Derrick and Der Fahnder; in 1997 she acted opposite Tuncel Kurtiz in Usta Beni Öldürsene, a brief encounter with Turkish cinema.

From the 2000s she worked mainly in German television. She played Anna in Phantomschmerz (2009), Inga Scholz in the Tatort episode Borowski und die Kinder von Gaarden (2015) and Julia in Welcome to Iceland (2016). She also appeared as a guest in series such as Der Kriminalist, Ein Fall für zwei and Wilsberg.