Helena Zengel is a German actress. She is best known for her roles in the films System Crasher (2019) and News of the World (2020).

After System Crasher received a number of international awards, Zengel was chosen by Universal Pictures for the lead role in the American Western News of the World, directed by British director Paul Greengrass, which became her first international film. In this adaptation of the 2016 novel of the same name by Canadian-American author Paulette Jiles, in which Tom Hanks played Captain Jefferson Kidd, Zengel plays a 10-year-old German orphan named Johanna Leonberger, raised by Kiowa Indians; much of her performance is in the Kiowa language. For this role, Zengel received nominations for the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Supporting Actress. Zengel also dubbed herself in the Italian, German, French, and Spanish versions; the dubbing is limited to the lines she spoke in English.