Josephine Jacob (born 30 September 1981) is a German actress.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. 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 The Taming of the Shrew.
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. 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 The Taming of the Shrew.
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