René Ifrah

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René Ifrah

René David Ifrah (born January 2, 1972 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German - American actor .

Life

Origin and education

René Ifrah was born in Frankfurt am Main and grew up there and in Sicily . His mother is German and worked as a secretary and model . His father, an American of Israeli descent, was a singer . In 1982 Ifrah moved to the United States with his family and lived in Brooklyn . In 1992, when he was in his early twenties, Ifrah returned to Germany, where he passed his Abitur , had various odd jobs and applied to a casting agency.

In 1995 Ifrah first returned to the United States . He completed an acting education at LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York . He also had private acting classes in Los Angeles . As a teenager, Ifrah played an episode role in the ARD television series Praxis Bülowbogen in 1987 . He had his first adult television role in 1996 as Thorben in the television series Mensch, Pia! . In the following years he played in several German-language film and television productions. He had episode roles in the hospital series OP Calls Dr. Bruckner , in the comedy series Mama is impossible , in the youth series Die Schule am See and in the TV drama A Handful of Luck (2001), as the Romanian gangster Nicu.

International film productions

In 1999 he returned permanently to Germany and moved to Berlin . In 2003 he played the role of the Pakistani, Muslim pizza maker Ashraf in the film drama September by Max Färberböck , which was shown in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2003 and received consistently positive reviews for this.

During this time, Ifrah played several supporting roles in international productions, including in 2002 alongside Bruce Willis in the war film The Tribunal , and in 2004 alongside Kevin Spacey in the biopic Beyond the Sea - Music was his life .

In 2004 he was seen in the role of Shareef in the adventure film The Blood of the Templars . In 2004 he starred in the film drama Greetings from Kashmir, directed by Miguel Alexandre, together with Bernadette Heerwagen . For his role as the young Kashmiri engineer Sharif Mishra, who lives in a foreign country , Ifrah was nominated in 2004 at the Munich Film Festival in the “Best Newcomer” category. In 2005 he received the Adolf Grimme Prize for his performance . In 2006, in the comedy Zores , he took on the tragicomic role of Leo Rosen, a good-looking, amiable chaotic of German-Jewish descent.

Television productions

In 2006 he also played a supporting role in the crime series Kommissarin Lucas, the Turkish Mehmet Özgur, who sympathizes with the religious fundamentalist movement. He also took on the role of waiter Lorenzo Alberi in 2006 in the film The Law of the Lagoon , a film from the Donna Leon television series . The ZDF occupied Ifrah as a fashion designer Andrew Holland in the first run in March 2010 TV movie Katie Fforde: A Love in the Highlands . In the family drama Die Frau des Schläfers (2010), in which he was seen together with Yvonne Catterfeld , he embodied the Muslim husband and sleeper Zaid , "very nuanced" . In the television film The Secret of the Villa Sabrini (first broadcast: March 2012) Ifrah took on the role of the Florentine jewelry designer, jeweler and bon vivant Francesco Sabrini. In January 2013 he was seen in the television film An expensive affair from the " Katie Fforde " series on ZDF as the brother of the main female character ( Julia Hartmann ). In April 2013 he was on ZDF in the TV film Die Pastorin at the side of Christine Neubauer in the role of the attractive young doctor Dr. See Antonio Alvarez. In the ZDF television film The Children of My Daughter (2014), he played alongside Jürgen Prochnow , the Kurdish son-in-law of the retired judge Ernst Blessing. 2014 followed in the "Katie Fforde" series of ZDF a leading role in the television film Eine Liebe in New York ; the fact he played Alejandro, an illegal immigrant from Colombia , who with a Wall Street - a broker a marriage of convenience is received.

In the US television series Homeland (2015) he took on the role of the jihadist Bibi Hamed in several episodes , who is supposed to carry out an attack in Europe on behalf of the terrorist militia IS . In March 2015 he was in the ZDF Sunday film Franziska's World - Weddings and Other Hurdles , the continuation of the TV film The Pastor , again as a doctor Dr. See Alvarez. In March 2016, Ifrah was at the side of Ursula Buschhorn in the ZDF Sunday film Katie Fforde: The Silence of Men as husband Howard Harper in the male lead again.

In January 2017, Ifrah was seen in the ZDF series SOKO Leipzig in a leading role as Amir Mahrous; he played a politics professor from Aleppo who comes to Germany as a Syrian refugee and receives support from a Leipzig pensioner couple. In the ensemble film So easy to die , which was first broadcast on ZDF in August 2019, René Ifrah played the Majorcan hospital doctor in charge, Dr. Rupert Akta.

Private

René Ifrah is married and lives in Berlin and New York. In addition to US citizenship, Ifrah now also has German citizenship. He himself feels like an "American socialized" European.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : René Ifrah  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ifrah's entry at www.vollfilm.de and a portrait in the newspaper Die WELT consistently indicate 1972 as the year of birth. The film database www.imdb.com names 1978 as the year of birth; the MDR states 1977 as the year of birth.
  2. ↑ a b c d René Ifrah is a commuter and dancer between worlds . In: DerWesten from April 7, 2016. Retrieved July 16, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f TV star in a BZ interview: René Ifrah shares his Berlin heart with New York . In: BZ of November 30, 2014. Retrieved July 16, 2018.
  4. ↑ A patriot looking for identity  ( 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. . (PDF; 50 kB) Portrait of René Ifrah in: Die Welt, June 27, 2003@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.reneifrah.com  
  5. ↑ Belly dance for peace. . Portrait of René Ifrah in Der Tagesspiegel on June 27, 2003
  6. ↑ René Ifrah  ( 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. - Portrait at Hier ab vier (as of 2006)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www1.mdr.de  
  7. ↑ Greetings from Kashmir . Background information, plot and cast
  8. ↑ René Ifrah ( Memento of the original from November 21, 2015 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. . Website Adolf Grimme Prize @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.grimme-institut.de
  9. ↑ The Sleeper's Wife . (TV review)
  10. ↑ The secret of Villa Sabrini ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . (TV review) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.monstersandcritics.de
  11. ↑ RENÉ IFRAH AS JIHADIST BIBI HAMED: "After 'Homeland' I became unemployed" . In: BILD from April 17, 2016. Retrieved July 16, 2018.
  12. ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff : TV tip: "You don't die that easy": Secrets come up . TV review. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung of August 27, 2019. Retrieved September 9, 2019.
  13. ^ Julian Weinberger: ZDF-Film: "You don't die that easy": Family drama takes on too much . TV criticism at Prisma.de. Retrieved September 9, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Ifrah, René
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ifrah, René David; Ifrah, René D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd January 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main