Valerie Pachner

Acting

Valerie Pachner

Born June 26, 1987 · Wels, Austria (age 39)

Valerie Pachner (born 26 June 1987), is an Austrian actress. She grew up in Bad Schallerbach, Austria and studied acting at the Max Reinhardt seminar in Vienna from 2009 to 2013. Pachner is best known for her performance as Franziska Jägersätter in Terrence Malick’s 2019 historical drama film "A Hidden Life".

Known For

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of DumbledoreFantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore · 2022
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
6.62022
MovieFantasyAdventure
Professor Albus Dumbledore knows the powerful, dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald is moving to seize control of the wizarding world. Unable to stop him alone, he entrusts magizoologist Newt Scamander to lead an intrepid team of wizards and witches. They soon encounter an array of old and new beasts as they clash with Grindelwald's growing legion of followers.
The King's ManThe King's Man · 2021
The King's Man
6.72021
MovieActionAdventure
As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.
A Hidden LifeA Hidden Life · 2019
A Hidden Life
7.22019
MovieHistoryDrama
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.
Four Minus ThreeFour Minus Three · 2026
Four Minus Three
8.32026
MovieDrama
Barbara and her partner Heli are professional clowns, living out their dream of an alternative, joy filled life with their two children, laughing at what doesn't work out. But when a tragic car accident takes Heli and the children, Barbara is left alone. In the face of unspeakable loss, her belief in humor, hope, and humanity is put to the ultimate test. Can her way of seeing the world — through both its light and shadow — help her find a way back to life? She bets she'll laugh again.
The StoriesThe Stories · 2026
The Stories
6.32026
MovieDramaMusic
The Stories is a decades-spanning Egyptian family saga and love story set between the late 1960s and 1980s. The film follows Ahmed, a young man from a Middle-Class Cairo family who dreams of becoming a concert pianist. During the tense summer of 1967, as war looms over Egypt, he begins a pen-pal correspondence with an Austrian woman named Elizabeth (“Liz”). A semi-autobiographical film based on the director's parents and how they met.
DeliciousDelicious · 2025
Delicious
4.82025
MovieThrillerDrama
During their vacation in the French countryside, a wealthy German family becomes entangled with a young hotel worker harboring sinister intentions.
Egon Schiele: Death and the MaidenEgon Schiele: Death and the Maiden · 2016
Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden
6.72016
MovieDramaHistory
Vienna, Austria, 1910. The young painter Egon Schiele is a rising artist, provocative and free, whose work, characterized by eroticism, shocks as much as it fascinates art lovers.
Stefan Zweig: Farewell to EuropeStefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe · 2016
Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
6.52016
MovieDramaHistory
Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards the events in war torn Europe and his search for a new home.

Filmography

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I Is AnotherI Is Another · 2026
I Is Another
2026
MovieDramaHistory
Autumn 1952: Committed journalist Hedda and her husband Winfried ambush Felix Kersten, former massage therapist to SS Reich Leader Himmler, on a train to Oslo. Kersten is said to have helped thousands of concentration camp prisoners to freedom during the Nazi era—at least according to his own account. But Hedda has her doubts. She considers Kersten a mythmaker who is using fabricated heroic deeds to put himself in the running for the Nobel Peace Prize. What begins as an interview develops into a tense, psychological cat-and-mouse game: Kersten, rhetorically brilliant and armed with alleged evidence, encounters a stubborn opponent who relentlessly confronts him with contradictions. As the conversation comes to a head, the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize winner draws ever closer....

Hedda Wohmann