Hugo Grimm (actor)

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Hubertus "Hugo" Grimm (born January 8, 1980 in Ndanda , Tanzania ) is a German actor .

Training and beginnings

Grimm completed his acting training from 2000 to 2004 at the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart . During this time he played first roles at the Staatstheater Stuttgart . After successfully completing his studies, he was hired by the Alte Schauspielhaus Stuttgart . There he appeared in Kabale und Liebe as Court Marshal von Kalb and in Die Mausefalle as Sergeant Trotter. In addition, the Friends of the Alten Schauspielhaus Stuttgart awarded Grimm the young talent award in 2006. In addition to his stage work, Grimm also appeared in radio plays, radio features and short films. He gained his first television experience with supporting roles in the series In the Name of the Law and in the feature film Another twenty .

watch TV

With his portrayal of the charming, sensitive and cheeky head of marketing Ben Petersen, Grimm became known to a broad public in 2006/2007 in the ZDF series Paths to Happiness .

The audience got to know Grimm from a completely different perspective in 2008 in his leading role as the neurotic Peter Kranz in the prime-time thriller Death from the Deep ( ProSieben ). Together with Lavinia Wilson and Fahri Ogün Yardim , as a representative of the Federal Environment Agency, he solved the riddle of mysterious death by the sea. As Paul Gassner, a lawyer with a sense of justice and the finer things in life, Grimm performed in the ARD comedy Die Tuesdaysfrauen for the pilgrim friends around Ulrike Kriener on the way to Lourdes Society (2010). In the same year, he shot a leading role alongside Isabell Gerschke in Aus Liebe zu dir ( ARD ). As a new father, he learned that happiness and tragedy are just a touch apart in a family. In 2014, Grimm formed a strong mother-son team with Hannelore Elsner in the ZDF film Ein Sommer im Burgenland in search of their own past and the right path into the future.

In addition to other film projects, Grimm took on the guest role of the sympathetic and unscrupulous businessman Dr. Philipp Hahn in the SAT1 series Anna and Love . In 2011 he was in the main cast for several months as Padre Jan Brandner together with Nina Bott for the series Verbotene Liebe (ARD) on Mallorca in front of the camera.

In addition, Grimm was seen in various episode roles on television. Among other things, he faced the interrogation of Henning Baum as a political villain in the Sat.1 series The Last Bull (2010). With the investigators from cheerful to fatal: Fuchs und Gans he caused confusion as an LKA official who turned out to be the perpetrator (2012). In Weimar, Grimm appeared as an ignorant opera manager in Heiter bis fatally: Ex-Files (2014). In 2016, he took on the role of the distinguished nobleman Ben von Seelow for SOKO Wismar , who was targeted by investigators due to his impending bankruptcy. He also made an appearance in the ZDF series Betty's Diagnosis in 2015 with a life confession that got under your skin.

theatre

After Grimm had concentrated on television for a few years, he appeared again in the theater for the first time in 2010 as Richard in Harold Pinter's The Lover . In 2013 he was the banker Mark in the evil comedy Bankruptcy Assets - Who Cheats on Whom Best? by Peter Buchholz in the Schlossparktheater in Berlin . With the 2-person stage version of The Smile of Women based on the novel by Nicolas Barreau , Grimm was on a theater tour across Germany in 2015-2017 as well as in 2016 with the lively Christmas comedy Rosa Wolken by Folke Braband .

Until February 2017, the actor worked under his maiden name Hubertus Grimm. Since then he has appeared in public under his stage name Hugo Grimm.

Grimm is a member of the Federal Drama Association (BFFS) .

Private

From summer 2009 to summer 2017, Grimm was in a relationship with his colleague Birte Wentzek and has a child with her (* 2014). In autumn 2017, Wentzek announced their separation.

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birte Wentzek: Separation - Just B Coaching - Birte Wentzek. September 17, 2017. Retrieved September 18, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Grimm, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grimm, Hubertus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Ndanda , Tanzania