Julia Effertz
- Intimacy Coordinator
- Actress
- Writer
A passionate storyteller, Julia is an award-winning actress and screenwriter, based in Berlin and working internationally in German, English, and French, with a broad acting range across drama and comedy. She is also Germany's first and pioneering intimacy coordinator, having introduced and established the profession there in 2019.
Julia can be seen as tough Mrs Gregson, opposite Austrian acting heavy-weight Tobias Moretti in international thriller series Das Netz - Prometheus (2022), as well as in the award-winning drama Blinde Flecken (2021), which screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022, and in which she plays the lead role of "Donna". Julia has guest-starred on top German crime series SOKO Wismar (2004) and Never Too Late for Justice (2016) for German broadcaster ZDF. As "Patricia", Julia played opposite and under the direction of Oscar-nominee Julie Delpy in international drama My Zoe (2019).
Julia is a physical actor who embodies each of her roles with depth and empathy. She trained as an actress in Paris, Oxford and London, where she was nominated as "Best Lead Actress" at the Off West End Awards 2011. She made her German acting debut in 2013, playing Jürgen Prochnow's daughter, a Muslim convert, in the drama Die Kinder meiner Tochter (2013) for German ZDF. Comedy is where Julia feels at home - she acted alongside Kai Wiesinger and Bettina Zimmermann in long-running Amazon Prime Series The Glory Is Gone (2015), which won the Romy Award 2019. As a content creator, Julia wrote, directed, edited, and played the lead role in 180 km/empty (2019), a short dramedy about burnout and depression, which screened at festivals worldwide and was shortlisted for the 99 Fire-Film-Awards 2019.
A literature scholar through her university education, Julia has been writing scripts for both drama and comedy, which have been selected for the Funny Women Awards in London and the Tallinn Black Nights TV Scriptpool. She is currently developing an international female-centric dystopian series, "Court of Muses", and is in post-production for her comedy series pilot "Hell Yeah!!".
As intimacy coordinator, Julia has created the standards and protocols in Germany, and has worked on a broad range of projects for film, television and live performance, including "Nine Perfect Strangers", "The Flight Attendant", Emmy-winner "The Empress" and, more recently, "Etty", the latest series project of Israeli director Hagai Levi.
Julia can be seen as tough Mrs Gregson, opposite Austrian acting heavy-weight Tobias Moretti in international thriller series Das Netz - Prometheus (2022), as well as in the award-winning drama Blinde Flecken (2021), which screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022, and in which she plays the lead role of "Donna". Julia has guest-starred on top German crime series SOKO Wismar (2004) and Never Too Late for Justice (2016) for German broadcaster ZDF. As "Patricia", Julia played opposite and under the direction of Oscar-nominee Julie Delpy in international drama My Zoe (2019).
Julia is a physical actor who embodies each of her roles with depth and empathy. She trained as an actress in Paris, Oxford and London, where she was nominated as "Best Lead Actress" at the Off West End Awards 2011. She made her German acting debut in 2013, playing Jürgen Prochnow's daughter, a Muslim convert, in the drama Die Kinder meiner Tochter (2013) for German ZDF. Comedy is where Julia feels at home - she acted alongside Kai Wiesinger and Bettina Zimmermann in long-running Amazon Prime Series The Glory Is Gone (2015), which won the Romy Award 2019. As a content creator, Julia wrote, directed, edited, and played the lead role in 180 km/empty (2019), a short dramedy about burnout and depression, which screened at festivals worldwide and was shortlisted for the 99 Fire-Film-Awards 2019.
A literature scholar through her university education, Julia has been writing scripts for both drama and comedy, which have been selected for the Funny Women Awards in London and the Tallinn Black Nights TV Scriptpool. She is currently developing an international female-centric dystopian series, "Court of Muses", and is in post-production for her comedy series pilot "Hell Yeah!!".
As intimacy coordinator, Julia has created the standards and protocols in Germany, and has worked on a broad range of projects for film, television and live performance, including "Nine Perfect Strangers", "The Flight Attendant", Emmy-winner "The Empress" and, more recently, "Etty", the latest series project of Israeli director Hagai Levi.
