Stephen A. Sikder

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Stephen A. Sikder (born October 22, 1966 in Esslingen am Neckar ) is a German - Indian actor , casting director and politician ( CSU ).

Life

After graduating from high school in 1985, he attended the Zerboni drama school in Munich from 1985 to 1987 and then received lessons from Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof at the HB Studio actor training institute in New York .

Since 1992 Sikder has worked in various functions in film and TV production, including a. as distribution coordinator for the movies Moondance and Long Live Our GDR . He has worked as a casting director for cinema and television since 1994 and founded his company Dream Team Munich for this purpose in 1995. He has now cast over 100 productions, including the international cinema project The Trapp Family-A Life of Music , the Rosamunde Pilcher series and the Barbara Wood films for ZDF, as well as numerous films and TV series, including international co-productions such as Die Muschelsucher , Vier Jahreszeiten or the ZDF remake of the classic TV film Der Seewolf .

As an actor, Stephen A. Sikder became known to a broader television audience in 2003 through his portrayal of Rashid Daruwalla in the television series Lindenstrasse . Stephen A. Sikder played the pediatrician Babu Sivaganeshan in the Swiss movie Sternenberg (2004). Sternenberg became the most successful movie of the year in Switzerland and was nominated for the Swiss Film Prize.

He took on other guest roles a. a. in Lotta in Love , Die Rote Meile und Schulmädchen , in Sharon von Wietersheim's Supersingle , in Heinrich Breloer's Speer and He , in Detlef Bothes Meine Frau, mein Freunde und I , in Rainer Matsutanis Back then you were quiet and Jurij Köster's Das Kreuz mit der Schrift , as well as in the ARD ratings hit Sturm der Liebe . In the cinema he appeared in Simon Verhoevens 100 Pro as a night owl. You could also see him as the press spokesman for the WHO in the ProSieben documentary film Die Killerflippe .

In 2010/2011 he was one of the leading actors in the sitcom A House Full of Daughters on Das Vierte .

At the theater he worked with Cordula Trantow ( Romeo and Juliet , A Midsummer Night's Dream , Momo , Nathan the Wise ), Kurt Weinzierl (Hias) and Uwe Niesig ( Love and Death , Everyone ).

In 2008 he was elected to the board of the casting association BVC, for which he also moderated the panel discussions as part of the Munich Film Festival. He also co-initiated the Peugeot BVC casting nights. He is also a member of the German Academy for Television.

Stephen A. Sikder married the actress Kerstin Näfe (stage name Kristin Naefe) in 2006 . Son Maurice was born in March 2010.

politics

Sikder has been committed to the CSU since 2012 and ran for the Trudering-Riem district committee in the municipal elections in Munich on March 16, 2014 , but did not get enough votes at the first attempt. In October 2015 he was able to take up his mandate as a successor for the Munich-Trudering-Riem District Committee (BA-15). Since March 2015 he has also been a member of the CSU local board in Waldtrudering. He is also involved in the Bavarian Economic Advisory Board. In March 2019 Stephen A. Sikder was elected local chairman of CSU Waldtrudering, and in May 2019 he was also elected deputy district chairman of CSU Munich East. Also in spring 2019, he was appointed deputy chairman of the CSU film commission. In the local elections on March 15, 2020, he ran for the Munich City Council, but was not elected due to the poor position on the list (42nd place). However, he was re-elected to the district committee 15 Trudering-Riem and has been the new parliamentary group spokesman for the CSU since the beginning of the new session in May 2020.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dream Team Munich
  2. ↑ A house full of daughters
  3. ^ Munich Film Festival
  4. ↑ Election of the District Committee - District 15 - Trudering-Riem on wahlen-muenchen.de from March 21, 2014, accessed on March 28, 2014
  5. ↑ https://www.csu.de/verbaende/ov/waldtrudering/ueber-uns/
personal data
SURNAME Sikder, Stephen A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Indian actor and casting director
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Esslingen am Neckar , Baden-Wuerttemberg , Federal Republic of Germany