Michael Epp (actor)

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Michael Epp (* 1983 in Konstanz ) is a German - British actor .

Life

Michael Epp grew up in Allensbach in Baden-Württemberg . He is the son of a German and a British woman and was raised bilingually (German / English). In addition to German citizenship, he also has British citizenship. After graduating from a commercial high school in Konstanz (2003), he first completed a journalistic internship in the sports department of Südkurier . After his community service he decided to become an actor.

From 2005 to 2007 he completed a three-year acting course at the HB Studio of Acting in New York 's Greenwich Village . After completing his training, he stayed in New York, where he lived and worked for a total of seven years. He played mainly theater on various smaller New York stages, acted in a few short films and also had minor television roles.

Epp has been in front of the camera regularly for German-language film and television productions since 2012, but has also worked in English-language and international productions. He had his first television roles in Germany a. a. in the television film Die Holzbaronin . In the second season of the television series Weissensee , which was broadcast from September 2013 and won the German Actor Award in the category “Best Ensemble”, he played a. a. at the side of Katrin Saß , the young pianist Malte Ulbricht.

His previous cinema works include the horror thriller Like (2014), the YouTuber comedy Potato Salad - Don't Ask! (2015; as Kommissar Manni), the AKIZ film Der Nachtmahr (2015; as police officer Schonrath), the multiple award-winning AKIZ film at the Max Ophüls Prize , the science fiction film We Are the Flood (2016; as soldier Mike) as well as the English-language and international productions The Childhood of a Leader (2015, with Bérénice Bejo and Robert Pattinson ), Collide (2016), Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the Fourth Reich (2016; as a brutal SS man Karl Krauss), Denial (2016; in the role of SS-Manns Hans Stark ), Another Mother's Son (2017, with Jenny Seagrove as the leading actress) and Unlocked (2017, with Michael Douglas , Orlando Bloom and John Malkovich ).

Epp also had u. a. Episodic roles in the German TV series Morden im Norden (2014; inter alia as referee and murder victim Michael Rost), SOKO Wismar (2015; as fiancé David Meinecke) and SOKO Stuttgart (2015; as suspected husband Wolf Fehling). In the ARD series In all friendship - The young doctors , he was seen in three episodes in 2015 as handball player Eric Thalbach; he played the friend of the regular cast doctor Julia Berger ( Mirka Pigulla ). He has also appeared in several British television series and mini-series ( Crossing Lines , War and Peace , SS-GB ). In the British- German crime series The Mallorca Files , which has been broadcast since November 2019, Epp took on one of the leading roles in the episode as a German winemaker on Mallorca who is threatened and asked to leave the island. In the ZDFneo detective series Dunkelstadt (2020) he took on one of the episode roles as a successful image consultant who is massively threatened.

After his permanent return to Germany, Epp, who has been married since 2015, settled in Berlin , where he lives with his wife.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Michael Epp at schauspielervideos.de
  2. ↑ Marius Bistritzky ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Vita. Official website of the Hamburg University of Music and Drama . Retrieved January 20, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hfmt-hamburg.de
  3. ↑ a b c d e actor Michael Epp - from Constance into the wide world . In: Südkurier, April 18, 2015. Retrieved May 2, 2017
  4. ^ Beyond Valkyrie - Dawn of the Fourth Reich . Movie review. Retrieved May 2, 2017
  5. ↑ Cheerful to fatal - murders in the north (new episodes :)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Heilbronner Voice of November 11, 2014. Retrieved on May 2, 2017@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stimme.de  
  6. ↑ Murder in the North: Blood tackle . Series of images. Retrieved May 2, 2017
  7. ↑ The Mallorca Files: Sour Wine . Plot and cast. Official website of the ZDF . Retrieved April 17, 2020.
  8. ↑ Dunkelstadt: Masks . Plot and cast. Official website of the ZDF. Retrieved March 4, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Epp, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy