She is best known for her role as Claudia Tiedemann in the German Netflix original series Dark.
Jenkins grew up in Heidelberg, the daughter of a Welsh and German couple.
She completed her acting training at the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts in Munich.
In 2006, Jenkins got a role in the Fredi M. Murer film Vitus, where she starred alongside real-life piano prodigy Teo Gheorghiu, as well as Bruno Ganz and Urs Jucker.
[2] In 2009, Jenkins appeared again on the big screen next to Jean-Paul Belmondo in A Man and His Dog, a remake of the Vittorio De Sica classic Umberto D. Since 2017, she has appeared in the Netflix original series Dark as Claudia Tiedemann.