Alissa Jung (born 30 June 1981 in Münster) is a German actress and physician.
Alissa Jung was born at first daughter of current Lord Mayor of Leipzig (Saxony) Burkhard Jung (SPD). She has three sisters.
From 1992 to 1999 she was Member of the listening play for children's radio ensemble of MDR and dubbed | synchronized various children's films and series. From 1996 she began to play theater (among others in Leipzig Theaterhaus Schille as Antigone and in Schauspiel Leipzig in Jeff Noon's Yellow). At the age of 16, she was discovered during a theatrical performance and in 1998 she took her first film role in the ARD series In aller Freundschaft . Since then, she has appeared in many film and television productions. She was known in 2006 by the lead role of Nelly Heldmann in the Sat.1 - telenovela Schmetterlinge im Bauch, the fairy tale adaptation Des Kaisers neue Kleider or the Sat.1 Film Im Brautkleid meiner Schwester. Internationally, she became 2012's title role of the two-parter Ihr Name war Maria and the leading roles in the movies Zweisitzrakete and Open my Eyes.