Carla Juri

Hailing from Switzerland, Carla Juri was born in Locarno and raised in the Ticino region.

From 2005 to 2010, she trained as an actress in Los Angeles and London.

She came to prominence with her performance in her first feature film, Cihan Inan’s 180° (2010), for which she won the “Quartz” for Best Actress at the Swiss Film Awards. A second “Quartz” for Best Actress was awarded in 2012 for her role in Xavier Koller’s Eine wen iig, dr Dällebach Kari.

Fluent in several languages, Carla Juri’s cinematic performances span across several countries, including Germany, England and Italy.

The role that marked her career is that of Helen, the lead role she plays in David Wnendt’s German drama Wetlands (Feuchtgebiete), released in 2013 and based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Charlotte Roche. For this role, she won the Best Actress Award at the Locarno Film Festival and was awarded the Shooting Stars Prize at the Berlinale.

In 2017, Carla Juri entered American cinema, playing the role of Dr. Ana Stelline in Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049.

Between 2019 and 2022, she worked on an array of German, English and American films, several of which were screened at the Sundance Film Festival (Blood by Bradley Gust Ray, Amulet by Romola Garai, Als Hitler das rosa Kaninchen stahl by Caroline Link, Six Minutes to Midnight by Andy Goddard, Walking to Paris by Peter Greenaway, and others.)