Pierre Besson

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Pierre Besson (born April 4, 1967 in East Berlin ) is a German actor . He is the son of the German actress Ursula Karusseit and the Swiss theater director Benno Besson and half-brother of Katharina Thalbach and Philippe Besson .

Life

Pierre Besson was already on the stage of the East Berlin Volksbühne at the age of four . After successfully completing school, he first completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter and worked in this profession for another three years. In 1994 he finished his studies at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art in Berlin . Engagements took him to various venues in Bremen , the Schauspielhaus Zurich , the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater Hamburg and the Maxim-Gorki-Theater in Berlin.

Parallel to his theater activity, Besson also started a film and television career. At first he took part in a few small episode roles in crime series, such as Doppelter Einsatz , Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei or At Your Own Risk , as well as in some television films, such as The Last U-Boot (1993) or Margarethe von Trottas Das Promise (1995). In 1997 he played alongside Heino Ferch and Jürgen Vogel in Buddies - Life in the Fast Lane , Roland Suso Richter's drama about a friend's clover in the stock market environment. He gained greater attention through his participation in Detlev Buck's comedy Liebesluder in 2000 on the side of Anke Engelke , in which he played the banker Peter Nase . In 2006 he played the blind Scottish officer Victor March in Colonial Africa alongside Iris Berben as Katharina von Strahlberg in Carlo Rola 's three-part television series Africa - Mon Amour . From autumn 2011, Besson took on a leading role in the TV series SOKO Cologne , where he replaced Jophi Ries .

From 2003 to the end of March 2006, Pierre Besson was in a relationship with the actress Muriel Baumeister , with whom he shot the television film Emotions in the Storm in 2002 . The couple have a daughter who was born in 2006.

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SURNAME Besson, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 4th 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin