--- name: "Valerie Pachner" canonical: "https://film.one/person/valerie-pachner" roles: ["Actor"] born: "26 June 1987" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T09:17:24.770419+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Valerie Pachner Actor. Born 26 June 1987 in Wels, Austria. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 26 June 1987, Wels, Austria - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Pachner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22162401, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5638960/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1420605 ## Fi1m on Valerie Pachner > Valerie Pachner makes affection convincing without smoothing away the strain of living with another person. We recommend *A Hidden Life* chiefly for the equal marriage she creates with August Diehl. In *A Hidden Life* (2019), Valerie Pachner makes working a farm with August Diehl feel like something a couple have done together for years. As Fani Jägerstätter, she gives the marriage an equality that matters: this woman has work to do and consequences to bear, as well as a husband to love. We were moved by their ease together, because it made the possibility of separation hurt. Terrence Malick’s attention to their shared daily life gives that feeling time to develop. The early screen parts included *Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe* (2016), directed by Maria Schrader, and Wally Neuzil in *Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden* (2016). Her breakthrough came with *A Hidden Life* and Marie Kreutzer’s *The Ground Beneath My Feet* (2019). In the latter, Pachner plays Lola Wegenstein, a business consultant under pressure, using small changes in expression and physical bearing to suggest what she is containing. These parts ask for different behaviour, but both depend on her ability to make self-control interesting. For Malick, that physical conviction had practical preparation behind it: Pachner read the couple’s letters and learnt farm work. The result is a wife who feels accustomed to a shared daily life, rather than placed beside the leading man to lend him sympathy. Diehl gives her a firm presence to work against, although his character’s certainty leaves him relatively little uncertainty to play. James Newton Howard’s music adds warmth to their scenes together without doing the actors’ work for them. The film repeats points it has already made, but Pachner sustains our interest in what those points mean for the marriage. International supporting parts followed in *The King’s Man* (2021) and *The English* (2022), alongside continued theatre and German-language film work. ## Biography Valerie Pachner is an Austrian actress. She was born on 26 June 1987 in Wels and grew up in Bad Schallerbach. She studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna from 2009 to 2013 and was a member of the ensemble at the Residenztheater in Munich until 2017. Pachner is known for her leading role as Fani Jägerstätter in Terrence Malick’s *A Hidden Life* (2019). Other film credits include *Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden* (2016), *Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe* (2016), *The Ground Beneath My Feet* (2019), *The King’s Man* (2021), *The English* (2022), *Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore* (2022) and *Delicious* (2025). For her performance in *Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden* she received the Austrian Film Award and a Romy. Her work in *The Ground Beneath My Feet* earned her the German Acting Award for Best Actress and other honours. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, filmportal.de.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *A Hidden Life* (2019), Fi1m 82, as Fani Jägerstätter — [page](https://film.one/film/a-hidden-life.md) ## Complete filmography (18) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *I Is Another* (2026), as Hedda Wohmann - *The Stories* (2026), as Elizabeth - *Four Minus Three* (2026), as Barbara - *Delicious* (2025), as Esther - *Alice* (2022), series, as Romy Schneider - *The English* (2022), series, as Martha Myers - *Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore* (2022), as Henrietta Fischer - *The King's Man* (2021), as Mata Hari - *Another Coin for the Merry-Go-Round* (2021), as Anna - *Bauhaus: A New Era* (2019), series, as Gunta Stölzl - *A Hidden Life* (2019), as Fani Jägerstätter — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/a-hidden-life.md) - *All My Loving* (2019), as Klara - *The Ground Beneath My Feet* (2019), as Lola - *Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden* (2016), as Wally Neuziel - *Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe* (2016), as Alix Störk - *Jack* (2015), as Marlene - *Bad Luck* (2015), as Dagmar - *Liebemacht* (2013), as Nastija ## Gallery - ![Valerie Pachner](https://film.one/media/person/691986/gallery-43fb15ae21a5.jpg) Valerie Pachner — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/MJK_68274_Valerie_Pachner_%28Berlinale_2020%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-MJK_68274_Valerie_Pachner_%28Berlinale_2020%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Valerie Pachner](https://film.one/media/person/691986/gallery-ab9d58c3c64d.jpg) Valerie Pachner — Image via TMDB - ![Valerie Pachner](https://film.one/media/person/691986/gallery-ea2aa8c7739a.jpg) Valerie Pachner — Image via TMDB - ![Valerie Pachner](https://film.one/media/person/691986/gallery-ee406d41d2e4.jpg) Valerie Pachner — Image via TMDB - ![Valerie Pachner](https://film.one/media/person/691986/gallery-0e35c4044c59.jpg) Valerie Pachner — Image via TMDB - ![Valerie Pachner](https://film.one/media/person/691986/gallery-e5a7ebe26827.jpg) Valerie Pachner — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Other awards — 2 won - Austrian Film Award for Best Actress 2026: Austrian Film Award for Best Actress (won), for *Four Minus Three* - Austrian Film Award for Best Actress 2017: Austrian Film Award for Best Actress (won), for *Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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