Leonie Wesselow Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Leonie Wesselow
Acting
Biography
Leonie Wesselow, born on April 7, 1998, in Buxtehude, is a German actress and voice artist who discovered her passion for acting at the age of eight and trained early at renowned institutions like the Stage School Hamburg and the Joop van den Ende Academy. She gained initial experience in theater productions at the Thalia Theater Hamburg and the Hamburgische Staatsoper, as well as in the youth series Das Haus Anubis. She became known for her lead role in the feature film Back for Good (2017), followed by appearances in the Netflix series How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) as Fritzi (2019–2025), Tatort, Cortex (2020), and Ich dich auch! (2022–2024).
Filmography Movies
Acting
Cortex
Two men, two lives, a fateful encounter: Hagen suffers from irregular phases of sleep in which he cannot decide between dream and reality. When his frustrated wife cheats on him with the small-time criminal Niko a series of disturbing events is set in motion and the lives of both men will never be the same.
Back for Good
Three women, one family: Monika the mother, Angie the older sister and Kiki the baby of the family. Angie is a reality-TV star who is doggedly clinging onto her fading career. Fresh out of rehab, she suddenly finds herself without any money, friends or a place to live and is condemned to returning to her mother in her hated dump of a hometown. Angie's teenage sister Kiki is also finding life tough-going. Due to her epilepsy, her mother Monika insists that she wears a freaky protective helmet. The consequence: Kiki is ostracised and bullied, her life has long since become the hell from which her mother is trying to protect her.
Once Upon a Time in Indian Country
A wild genre mix between a boxer film, urban western, road movie and music video, set at end of the summer holidays in a drab neighborhood in the outskirts of Hamburg suburbia. Young boxing talent Mauser is preparing for a pivotal competition when his father kills his step-mother and flees. Trying to find his father, Mauser embarks on a journey through the world of music, psychedelia, violence, love and a biblical thunderstorm. And what is with the Native American? "Once upon a time in Indian country" is a story that radiates both, heat and poetry.
The Glare
A 15-year-old mute girl, suspected of having been raped, is placed in a shelter. But is she really the helpless teenager everyone sees in her ?
Flucht durchs Höllental
The daughter of a lawyer is abducted. He becomes a hunted man himself.
A Place Called Dignity
Pablo, a 12-year-old boy, receives a scholarship to attend school in the mysterious and isolated Colonia Dignidad established in Chile by German settlers. It seems to be quite a privilege for a kid like him, and he quickly becomes the favourite of the leader of the colony, Uncle Paul. Over time, Pablo witnesses some kind of strange things which happen there and make him act differently than the other students.
Don't Kill Loretta
At a wellness retreat deep in Germany's forests, a group of young Americans encounter a terrifying presence after a night of partying. As fear and paranoia take hold, they must uncover the truth before it's too late.
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