Luna Wedler
Actor, Screenwriter
Born in Switzerland in 1999. She made her debut in Niklaus Hilber's film AMATEUR TEENS (2015). For her first leading role –in BLUE MY MIND (2017) by Lisa Brühlmann – she won the Swiss Film Award for Best Actress. From 2020, she played the lead role in the Netflix series BIOHACKERS. In 2021, she took on the role of Maxi in JE SUIS KARL by Christian Schwochow and won the Bavarian Film Award for Best Newcomer Actress and the Jupiter Award for Best Actress in National Cinema the following year. She embodied Sophie Scholl in the Instagram series ICH BIN SOPHIE SCHOLL (2021). Since 2019, she has been working in international productions, including THE STORY OF MY WIFE and ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE. She received the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actress at the Venice Film Festival for her role in for her performance in SILENT FRIEND (2025).
Filmography
(a selection)
Screenwriter
- 2025
- Gnade by Stefan Jäger
Actor
- 2026
- Eurotrash by Frauke Finsterwalder
- 2025
- Silent Friend by Ildikó Enyedi
- 2025
- Loud Love by Lea Bloch
- 2025
- Gnade by Stefan Jäger
- 2025
- Sie glauben an Engel, Herr Drowak? by Nicolas Steiner
- 2024
- 7 Fois by Christine Wiederkehr
- 2024
- Jakobs Ross by Katalin Gödrös
- 2024
- Landesverräter by Michael Krummenacher
- 2023
- Ingeborg Bachmann – Reise in die Wüste by Margarethe von Trotta
- 2022
- De Räuber Hotzenplotz by Michael Krummenacher
- 2021
- Je suis Karl by Christian Schwochow
- 2021
- Soul of a Beast by Lorenz Merz
- 2018
- Der Läufer by Hannes Baumgartner
- 2017
- Zwiespalt by Barbara Kulcsar
- 2017
- Flitzer by Peter Luisi
- 2017
- Blue my Mind by Lisa Brühlmann
- 2016
- Lina by Michael Schaerer
- 2015
- Amateur Teens by Niklaus Hilber
Awards
(a selection)
- 2025
- Venice, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica - La Biennale di Venezia, Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actress (Winner) in Silent Friend
- 2025
- Genève, Swiss Film Award 2025, Best Actress (Nomination) in Jakobs Ross
- 2022
- Zürich, Swiss Film Award 2022, Best Performance in a Supporting Role (Nomination) in Soul of a Beast
- 2021
- Berlin, Deutscher Filmpreis LOLA 2021, Deutscher Filmpreis LOLA - Beste weibliche Hauptrolle (Nomination) in Je suis Karl
- 2018
- Zürich, Swiss Film Award 2018, Swiss Film Award, Best Actress (Winner) in Blue my Mind