Carla Juri (; born 2 January 1985)
Early life and education
Juri was raised in Ambrì, a village in the Italian-speaking Canton of
Ticino in Switzerland.
[ «Mein Erfolg ist harte Arbeit und Glück» Carla Juri im Interview mit 20min.ch vom 11. Februar 2013.] Her father is a lawyer, and her mother is a sculptor.
Fluent in German, Italian and English,
she learned the first two when she was young, and English at 15. In school, she played
ice hockey for HC Ambrì-Piotta and went on to be a forward for the Swiss Class A team,
SC Reinach.
[ Essenz in den Augen. Interview mit Carla Juri in: Der Rheintaler vom 16. März 2012.] From 2005 until 2010, she studied theatre in Los Angeles and London.
[ Carla Juri bei Swiss Films; retrieved, 10 August 2013]
Juri started her acting career by hopping between auditions in Berlin, London and Rome.
From 2005 to 2007, Juri was coached by Douglas Matranga in Los Angeles.
Career
Juri's first film appearance was in the short film
Midday Room. In 2011, she received the Swiss Film Award in the
Best Performance in a Supporting Role category for
180° (2010) and won the award for
Best Actress for her role in
the next year. In 2013, she was selected to receive the
Shooting Star which is awarded annually to ten young European actors at the Berlin International Film Festival.
[ Carla Juri bei shooting-stars.eu; retrieved, 10 August 2013] She also played the leading role in the 2013 film adaptation of
Wetlands, which is arguably the role she is best known for. The novel it is based on was a controversial bestseller in Germany.
To prepare for this role, Juri wore the clothes of her character, Helen, for several weeks and spent a lot of this time in Berlin, where her character lives.
She even went undercover as a student at a high school where only the principal knew she was an actress.
She appeared in the
Blade Runner sequel,
Blade Runner 2049, as a designer of implanted memories for
.
Selected filmography
Film
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| 2006 | Midday Room | The Bride | Short film |
| 2008 | The Space You Leave | Lea | Short film |
| 2010 | | Esther Grüter | |
| 2010 | Bold Heroes | Michis Cousine | |
| 2012 | Jump | Jane | |
| 2012 | | Annemarie Geiser | aka Eine wen iig, dr Dällebach Kari |
| 2012 | Questo è mio | Maestra | Short film |
| 2013 | Finsterworld | Natalie | |
| 2013 | Wetlands | Helen Memel | |
| 2013 | | Young Louise | |
| 2014 | Fossil | Julie | |
| 2014 | Spooky & Linda | Linda | Short film |
| 2016 | Morris from America | Inka | |
| 2016 | Paula | Paula Modersohn-Becker | |
| 2016 | Brimstone | Elizabeth Brundy | |
| 2017 | Blade Runner 2049 | Ana Stelline | |
| 2019 | | Agnes | |
| 2019 | When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit | Dorothea | |
| 2020 | Six Minutes To Midnight | Ilse Keller | |
| 2020 | Amulet | Magda | |
| 2023 | Walking to Paris | Lucy | |
| 2024 | Torch Song | Liz Alexander | |
| 2025 | Donkey Days | Ines | |
Television
|
| 2010 | Married to a Cop | Ilaria Cantilli | Episode: "Una figlia" |
| 2011 | Un passo dal cielo | Nina | Episode: "Salvato dalle acque" |
| 2012 | Der Kriminalist | Marie | Episode: "Des Königs Schwert" |
Music video
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Your Love Is Killing Me (2014) by Sharon Van Etten
Awards
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2011: Best Supporting Actress for 180° at the Swiss Film Awards
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2012: Best Leading Actress at the Swiss Film Awards
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2013: Shooting Stars Award - Europe's Best Young Actors
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