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Actor

Germany · Female

3 series in the catalog

Sofia Banzhaf is a Canadian actress and filmmaker from Newfoundland and Labrador. Banzhaf was born in Germany and spent part of her early life in the United States. She is most noted for her 2019 short film I Am in the World as Free and Slender as a Deer on a Plain, which premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival and was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for short films.

As an actress, her roles have included the films Closet Monster (2015), We Forgot to Break Up (2017), Splinters (2018), Black Conflux (2019) and Stage Mother (2020), and the television series Bitten (2014–2016).

Her first feature film as a director, titled Apparatus, was announced in 2026.

Filmography

2013 - Silent Retreat: Alexis

2015 - Closet Monster: Gemma

2016 - Delta Venus: Annabel

2017 - Kingdom City Drowning, Ep1. The Champion (Short): Maika

2017 - We Forgot to Break Up: Allison

2018 - Splinters: Belle

2018 - Honey Bee: Cherry

2019 - Bing! Bang! Bi! (Short): Sofia

2019 - Murdoch Mysteries (TV series): Bella Cooper (episode "The Killing Dose")

2020 - Stage Mother: Young Maybelline

2021 - The Communist's Daughter (web series): Dunyasha

2022 - Retrograde: Gabrielle

2023 - Wong & Winchester: Sarah Winchester

2023 - Dream Scenario: Leah