Biography

Schwarz was born and grew up in the small town of Michelstadt

Michelstadt

Michelstadt in the Odenwald is a town in the Odenwaldkreis in southern Hesse, Germany between Darmstadt and Heidelberg.- Location :Michelstadt is the biggest town in the Odenwaldkreis and borders on the district seat of Erbach....

, Germany. She won a contest of the German teen magazine Bravo

Bravo (magazine)

Bravo is the largest teen magazine within the German-language sphere. The first issue was published in 1956, subtitled as "the magazine for film and television" . Marilyn Monroe's portrait graced the first published issue, the never-published dummy issue cover displayed Elvis Presley.-History:The...

 in 1993. Subsequently, she worked as a model

Model (person)

A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....

 and VJ for the music channel VIVA. In 2000 she started her acting career and occasionally hosts events, e.g. the German Film Award 2004. Schwarz separated from actor Daniel Brühl

Daniel Brühl

Daniel César Martín Brühl González Domingo is a Spanish/German actor. He is best known as Daniel Brühl.-Personal life:Brühl was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. His father was the late German stage director Hanno Brühl and his mother was a Spanish professor. He also has a brother and a sister...

 after a 5-year relationship in 2006 and is currently living in Berlin.

She is known for her role in the film Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (film)

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a 2006 German thriller film directed by Tom Tykwer and written by Andrew Birkin, Bernd Eichinger and Tykwer. It is based on the 1985 novel Perfume by Patrick Süskind. Set in 18th century France, the film tells the story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille , an olfactory...

 and her role as Tony Buddenbrook in the 2008 film version of Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual...

's novel Buddenbrooks

Buddenbrooks

Buddenbrooks was Thomas Mann's first novel, published in 1901 when he was twenty-six years old. The publication of the 2nd edition in 1903 confirmed that Buddenbrooks was a major literary success in Germany....

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In March 2008, it was announced that Jessica Schwarz will play the title role in a $7 million TV production Romy, depicting the life of Romy Schneider

Romy Schneider

Romy Schneider was an Austrian-born German film actress who also held French citizenship.-Early life:Schneider was born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach in Nazi-era Vienna, six months after the Anschluss, into a family of actors that included her paternal grandmother Rosa Albach-Retty, her Austrian...

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Won

• 2002 New Faces Award (Best Actress) for No Regrets
• 2003 Adolf Grimme Award (Fiction/Entertainment) for the performance in The Friends of the Friends
• 2004 Bavarian Film Awards (Best Actress), for her performance in Kammerflimmern

Nominated

• 2004: German Television Award (Best Actress in a Movie Made for Television) for Cold Spring
• 2005: German Film Award in Gold (Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role) for Off Beat

Filmography (selected)

• 2001: No Regrets (Nichts bereuen)
• 2002: The Friends of the Friends (Die Freunde der Freunde)
• 2003: Play It Loud! (Verschwende deine Jugend)
• 2004: Cold Spring (Kalter Frühling)
• 2004: Off Beat (Kammerflimmern)
• 2004: 'Quito
• 2006: Die Wilden Hühner
• 2006: The Red Cockatoo (Der rote Kakadu)
• 2006: Lulu
• 2006: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
  Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (film)
  Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a 2006 German thriller film directed by Tom Tykwer and written by Andrew Birkin, Bernd Eichinger and Tykwer. It is based on the 1985 novel Perfume by Patrick Süskind. Set in 18th century France, the film tells the story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille , an olfactory...
  
  
• 2006: Nichts als Gespenster
• 2007: Impossibly Yours (Der Liebeswunsch)
• 2007: Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps
  Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps
  Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps is a 2007 German comedy film directed by Leander Haußmann.- Plot :The successful lawyer and ladies' man Jan observes through a window of his apartment, how a car scrapes his red convertible. The driver is the equally successful publishing assistant...
  
  
• 2008: Buddenbrooks
• 2009: Die Wilden Hühner und das Leben
• 2009: Romy
• 2009: Die Tür
• 2010: Lautlose Morde
• 2010: Der Mann, der über Autos sprang
• 2010: Das Lied in mir

External links

• Photo Gallery
• Interview with NEON Magazin (German)
• Michelstädter Rathausbräu (Brewery of the Schwarz–family)
• Photographs and literature