Sebastian Urzendowsky

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Sebastian Urzendowsky

Sebastian Urzendowsky (born May 28, 1985 in Berlin ) is a German actor .

Life

Sebastian Urzendowsky was discovered as an actor during his school days and played the leading role of the young Beatles fan Tobias (here still under the name Sebastian Schmidtke ) in Hendrik Handloegen's award-winning debut film Paul Is Dead in 1999 .

Several roles on television and in the cinema followed. For example, in Wearing Short Pants for a Lifetime , he played the child murderer Jürgen Bartsch , who was still a youth, and in Good Boy at the side of Klaus J. Behrendt, the withdrawn son who hides a troubling secret.

His first cinema productions include films such as The Rock by Dominik Graf , Lights by Hans-Christian Schmid and Stefan Ruzowitzky's Oscar-winning drama Die Fälscher . In addition, the debut film Pingpong by Matthias Luthardt , the 2006 Cannes its premiere as part of the Semaine de la critique.

While still studying acting at the Berlin University of the Arts , he stood in front of the camera in Peters Weir's The Way Back, alongside Colin Farrell and Ed Harris . This was followed by a first engagement in France for the film Eine Jugendliebe (Un amour de jeunesse) by the director Mia Hansen-Løve . He returned to France in 2017 for the dystopian Arthaus film Jessica Forever , in which he played one of the leading roles. The film celebrated its international premiere in Toronto at the TIFF and its European premiere in the Panorama of the Berlinale .

Sebastian Urzendowsky also worked in series. So z. B. as Max "Reinsteckefuchs" in the internationally successful series Babylon Berlin and the remake of Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, which was completed in 2020 .

Sebastian Urzendowsky received the Grimme Prize twice . 2013 for his portrayal in the two-parter Der Turm by Christian Schwochow , as well as in 2017 for the role of Uwe Böhnhardt in the NSU drama Die Täter - Today is not every day by the same director.

In 2010 he was also on stage under the direction of Roger Vontobel in the play Penthesilea by Heinrich Kleist at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg and at the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen .

Sebastian Urzendowsky lives in Berlin. His sister is the actress Lena Urzendowsky .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Awards

Web links

Commons : Sebastian Urzendowsky  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grimme Prize 2013: The Tower / Prize Winner ( Memento from May 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 13, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Urzendowsky, Sebastian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidtke, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin