Question: Which other occupation is the American actress who stars as a Jewish-American girl who befriends a German prisoner of war in a made-for-television war drama?

Context articles: The Turning Point (1983 film)
Tony Bethell
Platon Chirnoagă
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
A Bright Shining Lie (film)
Norwegian POW Museum
Rolf Magener
Kristy McNichol
Women of Valor
Summer of My German Soldier (film)

The Turning Point (also screened with the English name "Held for Questioning"; German: "Der Aufenthalt" ) is a 1983 East German film directed by Frank Beyer and starring Sylvester Groth, Fred Düren and Klaus Piontek.
 The film is based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Hermann Kant, which was based on Kant's own experience as a prisoner of war in Poland.
 The film tells the story of a German prisoner of war at the end of World War II who is wrongly accused of being a war criminal.
 The film was controversial upon release as Polish commentators criticized that the film showed the Polish army wrongly accusing someone of war crimes.
 Nevertheless, the film was successful and won several awards and was the East German official submission to the 56th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.
Richard Anthony Bethell, known as Anthony (or "Tony") Bethell, (9 April 1922 - 17 February 2004) was born in Dar-es-Salaam in the British territory of Tanganyika.
 He joined the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
 After his Mustang was shot down he was taken prisoner and held in the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III at Sagan where he actively participated in the Great Escape, being one of the 76 officers to break out and make some distance across enemy occupied territory before being recaptured.
 His name was not one of the 50 who were picked to be executed and he, with 25 others, went back into captivity.
 He retired from the RAF in 1955 and worked in financial services in Canada.
 He died in Canada in 2004.
Platon Chirnoaga (1894 - 1974) was a Romanian Brigadier-General during World War II.
 In 1941, he was Chief Operation 3rd Army and then Vice Chief of Staff 3rd Army.
 He became Commanding Officer 7th Artillery Regiment and subsequently Vice Chief of Staff 3rd Army in 192.
 In 1944, he was Commanding Officer 4th Artillery Brigade, General Officer Commanding 4th Division, and finally a German prisoner.
 In 1945, Chirnoaga was Minister of Defence Government while in exile in Germany.
 From 1945 to 1946, he was a prisoner of war.
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil is a 1985 American made-for-television war drama film about two German brothers, Helmut and Karl Hoffmann, and the paths they take during the Nazi regime.
 The movie was directed by Jim Goddard and starred John Shea, Bill Nighy, Tony Randall, David Warner and John Woodnutt.
 The film shows Karl, who was originally enthusiastic about the Nazi Party, becoming disillusioned and Helmut, who was at first wary of the Nazi Party, joining the Schutzstaffel (SS) and later being an accomplice to war crimes.
A Bright Shining Lie is an 1998 American made-for-television war drama film based on Neil Sheehan's book of the same name and the true story of John Paul Vann's experience in the Vietnam War.
 It stars Bill Paxton, Amy Madigan, Vivian Wu, Donal Logue, Eric Bogosian and Kurtwood Smith and is written and directed by Terry George, and produced by Greg Ricketson.
Norwegian POW Museum ("Krigsfangemuseet i Schildberg") is a Norwegian museum devoted to the history of Norwegian World War II Prisoners of War once interned in the German prisoner of war camp in Schildberg during the Nazi occupation of Norway.
 The museum is located in Ostrzeszów, Poland.
Rolf Magener (3 August 1910 – 5 May 2000) was the first German prisoner to escape successfully from India during World War II.
 His daring escape from a camp at Dehradun in 1944 with mountaineer Heinrich Harrer is documented in Megener's memoir, "Prisoner's Bluff".
 After the war he became a successful business executive and chief financial officer for BASF, and held a senior-level position with Mercedes-Benz.
Christina Ann McNichol (born September 11, 1962) is an American actress and singer.
Women of Valor is a 1986 American made-for-television war drama film about World War II, starring Susan Sarandon and Kristy McNichol and directed by Buzz Kulik.
 It premiered on CBS on November 23, 1986 and was released on DVD on March 10, 1998.
Summer of My German Soldier is a 1978 American made-for-television war drama romance film based on the novel of the same name written by Bette Greene.
 It stars Kristy McNichol as a Jewish-American girl and Bruce Davison as the German prisoner of war whom she befriends.