Anatole Taubman

Anatole Taubman, 2019

Anatole Taubman (born December 23, 1970 in Zurich ) is a Swiss actor .

Life

origin

His father comes from Königsberg , his mother was born in Vienna . His grandparents come from Russia , Poland and Slovakia . Three of his grandparents died in the Holocaust . Taubman speaks several languages fluently ( German , English , French and Italian ). He lives in Germany and has a British passport.

Career

Taubman attended a primary school in Zurich and graduated from the Matura at the Gymnasium of the seminary school in Einsiedeln Monastery . Immediately afterwards he went to the United States and studied from 1992 to 1994 in New York at the renowned drama school Circle in the Square .

He has already played in more than 50 cinema and television productions, including many leading and supporting roles .

One of his leading roles was that of Simon Cavegn in the Swiss movie Marmorera , directed by Markus Fischer . In it he embodied a psychiatrist who goes mad because of a mysterious young woman. The film was awarded for best film and for best camera at the 2007 Málaga Film Festival .

In 2008 he starred in the Hollywood movie 96 hours a Albanian villain in the US television series The Tudors a French executioner , in the BBC series Waking the Dead - On behalf of the dead a Serbian war criminal , in the BBC series Spooks - the Keeping tabs MI5 a Venezuelan secret agent and in the ZDF series your assignment, Father Castell a coroner .

He was seen in the cinemas as Elvis in the 22nd James Bond film James Bond 007: Quantum of Solace . In the film adaptation of the novel The Popess , he took on the role of arch-rival Anastasius . In 2009 he also embodied Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky Boy Capel in Jan Kounens , Coco Chanel's first great love.

Taubman can be seen as Brother Remigius in the German-Canadian television production Die Säulen der Erde .

In winter 2012 he played a. a. next to Heike Makatsch as “Ansgar” in the TV film of the week Sechzehneichen (ARD; director: Hendrik Handloegten ) and in April 2013 as “Olaf Böhm” in the Leipzig Tatort Schwarzer Afghane (ARD; director: Thomas Jahn ).

In January 2013 he played as “Uwe Hansen” in the male lead alongside the well-known German theater actresses Senta Berger and Nadja Uhl in the lively thriller about prostitution, the trafficking and rape of children, Operation Zucker (director: Rainer Kaufmann, camera : Morton Søborg, production: Gabriela Sperl).

At the end of April 2013, filming in Brussels for the new Dreamworks production The Fifth Estate (USA) - it shows the turbulent beginnings of WikiLeaks under Julian Assange - was completed, in which Taubman plays the role of the leading Spiegel editor « Holger Stark ».

In autumn 2013 he played a leading role as "Falk Geisinger" in the first German 3D horror thriller Lost Place (director: Thorsten Klein, published by Warner Bros Germany / NFP).

Since the late summer of 2014 he has been in a leading role in Paris in the ten-part television series «Versailles». The most expensive French TV series at 25 million euros is a co-production by Canal Plus, Capa Drama, Zodiak and Incendo.

Private life

Taubman has been married to the presenter and Germanist Sara Taubman-Hildebrand for the third time since 2018; the couple have a son, Henri (* 2018). From 2002 to 2013 he lived with the German actress Claudia Michelsen , the mother of his daughter Tara (* 2004). He is the father of two other daughters from previous relationships. Taubman is a non-practicing Jew: “I could also be Catholic or Buddhist. I believe in fate, in a higher power. But I don't worship any god. " In December 2018 Taubman was appointed the second official ambassador for UNICEF Switzerland and Liechtenstein.