These are the episode stars in the Cologne “Tatort”
Leslie Malton as a former pop singer
“Tatort: This time it’s different” (vlonru): Jenny Schily, Annina Hellenthal, Leslie Malton and Katja Hutko play important roles in this Cologne crime thriller.
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In “Tatort: This time it’s different,” the episode stars are all female. These actresses are behind the important roles.
Jenny Schily as Ballauf’s lover and city magazine editor Nicola Koch
West Berlin-born Jenny Schily (56) studied at the renowned Ernst Busch Academy of Drama from 1991 to 1995. The daughter of the former Federal Interior Minister Otto Schily (91) then shone on theater stages in Dresden, Frankfurt am Main and in her hometown.
After her debut in “Sunny Point” (1994), Jenny Schily played her first major television role – the pop singer’s wife – in the film biography “Roy Black You’re Not Alone – The Roy Black Story” (1996). Since then, she has appeared in numerous well-known productions, including “Babylon Berlin (2019-2022) and most recently in the future season of the successful series “Charité” (2024). “Tatort: This time it’s different” is already her tenth Sunday crime thriller with a Leading role in the episode.
Annina Hellenthal as city magazine journalist Svenja Peter
Annina Hellenthal (40) was born in Bochum, completed her acting training in Cologne from 2004 to 2008 and made her debut in the role of a student in the Münster Sunday crime thriller “Tatort: Das eternal Böse” (2006).
Fans of the series “Betty’s Diagnosis” (since 2015) know her as one of the actresses in the title role, which changes over the course of the seasons. Annina Hellenthal played the head nurse of the admission ward (Betty) from 2017 to 2023.
Leslie Malton as pop singer and charity lady Mariella Rosanelli
Like Jenny Schily, the award-winning American-German actress Leslie Malton (64) has also had many appearances in Sunday crime dramas, including one of her first television roles in the Berlin crime thriller “Tatort: Evidence Collection” (1981). She was last seen in the Falke crime thriller “Tatort: What remains” (2024).
Born in Washington, DC, the diplomat’s daughter studied acting in Boston and London. Leslie Malton had her first theater engagements at the Burgtheater in Vienna. The actress was awarded many awards for her role in the successful TV four-part series “The Great Bellheim” (1993).
Katja Hutko as “Kids4Care” employee Larissa Krüger
The actress Katja Hutko, born in Berlin in 1994, made her debut in Til Schweiger’s (60) cinema “Tatort” spin-off “Tschiller: Off Duty” (2016) after training as an actor in Rostock.
Her other films include the rape drama “Nothing that happens to us” (2023), the midwifery series “Push” (2024) and the comedy series “Other Parents” (since 2019).