A Conversation with Film Actress Ella Rumpf Webinar

Ella Rumpf provides a detailed insight into her work as a film actress and her experiences within the film industry in a conversation moderated by Kai Ivo Baulitz. Afterwards, participants have the opportunity to ask questions.

Ella Rumpf was born in 1995 in Paris and grew up in Zurich. She made her acting debut in 2012 in the feature film Draussen ist Sommer directed by Friederike Jehn. At the age of 19, she gained attention for her role in Simon Jaquemet's debut feature film Chrieg, earning a nomination for the Swiss Film Award in the category of ‘Best Supporting Actress’. Rumpf made her international debut in 2017 at the Cannes Film Festival in the horror thriller Grave(Raw) directed by Julia Ducournau. For this role, she was included in the 'Révélations' selection for the French César Film Awards. In 2020, European Film Promotion presented Ella Rumpf as one of the ten European Shooting Stars at the Berlinale.

The multilingual actress has appeared in numerous German-language and international film productions, such as Tiger Girl by Jakob Lass (2017), Petra Volpe's The Divine Order (2017), Detlev Buck's Asphaltgorillas (2018), the French-Canadian-Belgian co-production Sympathy for the Devil by Guillaume de Fontenay (2019), the Swiss feature film Soul of a Beast by Lorenz Merz (2021), and the quirky comedy Northern Comfort by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson (2023).

Ella Rumpf has also starred in several international series, including Succession, Tokyo Vice, and the Netflix series Freud.

In 2024, Ella Rumpf was awarded the César for her work in the feature film Le théorème de Marguerite.

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