Torsten Michaelis

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Torsten Michaelis (born January 31, 1961 in East Berlin ) is a German actor , voice actor , radio play speaker and audio book interpreter . His voice is best known through numerous synchronizations by Wesley Snipes , Martin Lawrence , Sean Bean and Chris Tucker .

Act

Theater, film and television

Michaelis completed his acting studies from 1983 to 1987 at the "Ernst Busch" Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin . As early as the second year of training, he appeared in the Kammerspiele of the Deutsches Theater Berlin from 1984 to 1989 . In 1987 he was given a three-year engagement at the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam , followed by another four years as a guest actor. Michaelis has been working as a freelancer since 1995. He has worked in television productions such as the crime series Inspektor Rolle and Polizeiruf 110 as well as in the TV feature film Twelve Winter , which was awarded with the Jupiter , in cinema productions such as NVA (2005), Mein Führer - The really true truth about Adolf Hitler (2007) and 1. May - Heroes at Work (2008) and in the 2009 Oscar- winning short toy Land . In the ARD series Tatort , he has been working alongside Maria Furtwängler as Commissioner Charlotte Lindholm as her superior Stefan Bitomsky since 2007 . In 2009 he starred alongside Yvonne Catterfeld in the thriller Shadow of Justice . Michaelis is represented by the Berlin-based management Ramona Mohren. He also speaks in the TV spots for the Austrian mobile operator Magenta .

synchronization

Discovered by a director who was looking for young speakers in school classes to cast children and youth roles in the field of film dubbing, Torsten Michaelis took on his first leading role in the Soviet Belarus film production Die Musik der Partisanen in 1972 . Numerous other engagements followed in the DEFA studios in Potsdam-Babelsberg .

Since Demolition Man (1993) Michaelis has been the German celebrity voice of Wesley Snipes , and since the 16-part television production The Snipers has also been Sean Bean's . In addition, since Bad Boys - Harte Jungs (1995) with a few exceptions Martin Lawrence and since Dead Presidents (1995) it has been continuously cast by Chris Tucker . Film and television viewers also know him as the German voice of several series leading actors, including Julian McMahon in the role of Cole Turner in Charmed (2000-2005) and the role of Dr. Christian Troy in Nip / Tuck - Beauty has its price (2006–2009). For Kevin Sorbo he was the German voice of Dylan Hunt in Andromeda (2001-2006), for Damian Lewis as Charlie Crews in Life (2009-2010) and for Grant Bowler as Joshua Nolan in Defiance (2013-2015).

A selection of other actors he has dubbed include Benicio del Toro , including in Traffic - Power of the Cartel (2000), 21 Gramm (2003) and Sin City (2005), Donnie Wahlberg in the film series Saw , in Short Trial - Righteous Kill ( 2008) and in the series Blue Bloods - Crime Scene New York (since 2012) and Mike Epps in Next Friday (2000), Friday After Next (2002), Talk to Me (2007) and Savages (2012).

Michaelis directed dialogue in the crime series CSI: Miami and in the Coen cult film The Big Lebowski . Since 2014 he has lent Jason Beghe as Henry "Hank" Voight in Chicago PD . He also dubbed Jackie Earle Haley in Shutter Island (2010) and 2017-2019 in The Tick .

He also speaks Ben Mendelsohn in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story as Orson Krennic and Benicio del Toro in Star Wars: The Last Jedi as "DJ".

Audio books

Torsten Michaelis has been a busy interpreter of audio books since the mid-2000s . His previous publications include both children's and youth as well as adult literature. Among other things, he read Der Horla from the Vampirric audio book series by HR Giger (2004), Die Insel des Dr. Moreau by HG Wells (2007) and the Tripods trilogy by John Christopher (2006, 2007), the third part of which won the gold radio play award in 2007 and was nominated for the ear canal . In the “Audio Book of the Decade” category, Michaelis prevailed against the competition alongside David Nathan and director Lars Peter Lueg during the 2008 Ohrkanus election with HP Lovecraft's The Whisperer in the Dark . As the dubbing voice of the main actor Sean Bean in the television series The Snipers , Torsten Michaelis has been setting music to the television adaptation of the novel series Richard Sharpe by Bernard Cornwell since 2010 .

In the field of children's and youth literature, Michaelis interpreted, among other things, The Amulet of Genghis Khan by Nina Blazon , which appeared on the audio book top list in 2008 . With the reading Troja by Rosemary Sutcliff (2008), he achieved third place in the following year at the HörKulino , the audience award of the German book trade. Another success was the audio book edition of the novel It happened in the neighboring house of Willi Fährmann , which was nominated for the German youth literature award and which was awarded the Auditorix seal of approval in 2011. In 2012 the audio book productions Elbenthal-Saga - Die Hüterin Midgards by Ivo Pala and the prequel Tripods - The arrival of the three-legged monsters by John Christopher , 2013 Elbenthal-Saga - The Black Prince by Ivo Pala were released. Since February 2014 he has been bringing Batman's adventures to life for Argon Sauerländer audio . In October 2015, his reading of Philip Kerrs Winterpferde was published by sauerländer audio, which was awarded first place on the hr2 audio book best list.

Michaelis also set documentary audio books to music on subjects such as history , philosophy and religion for the complete media publisher .

Audio and computer games

From 2006 to 2009 Michaelis lent his voice to the hit man and protagonist Steven Caine in the ten-part, multi-award-winning radio play series Caine von Lausch - Fantastic Radio Play, and was awarded the Gold Radio Play Award for "Best Speaker in a Leading Role" with the Ohrkanus in 2010 and 2007. honored. From 2005 to 2010 he also worked as Tupac Shakur in the LPL Records production Revelation 23 , in another fixed role he was heard in 2008 as Jedi Roan Shryne in the Star Wars radio play series Dark Lord . In the radio play series Drachenlanze he lends his voice to the character Caramon, a main actor.

In addition, Michaelis lent his voice to various characters in the radio play series Horror Cabinet , for example in the episodes The Phantom of the Opera , The Cursed House , Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , The Fall of Dexter Ward , The Loving Dead and The Corpse Thief . In the radio play version of Bram Stoker's classic novel Dracula , published by Lauscherlounge Records , Michaelis took on the leading role of the same name and performed with the ensemble in three readings in 2006 in Berlin, Hamburg and Essen.

Those interested in computer games know Torsten Michaelis as the dubbing voice of Max Payne in Max Payne 2: Fall of Max Payne , Agent 47 in Hitman , Garrett in Dark Project 2: The Metal Age , Psycho in Crysis and Crysis Warhead , Mother in Medal of Honor , Assassin Kai Leng in Mass Effect 3 , Sam Becker in Far Cry 3 , Pagan Min in Far Cry 4 and one of four speakers for the character Inquisitor in Dragon Age: Inquisition . He also gave the character Reaper in Blizzard's game Overwatch his voice.

Private life

Michaelis is married and lives in Berlin . His brother is the singer and composer Dirk Michaelis .

Awards

  • 2007: Audio play award in gold in the category "Best Speaker in a Leading Role" for Caine
  • 2007: Gold radio play award in the category “Critics' Prize: Best Reading” for Tripods III - The Fall of the Three-Legged Monsters according to John Christopher
  • 2008: Ohrkanus in the “Audio Book of the Decade” category alongside David Nathan and director Lars Peter Lueg for The Whisperer in the Dark by HP Lovecraft
  • 2009: HörKulino - 3rd place for Troy according to Rosemary Sutcliff
  • 2010: Ohrkanus in the category “Best Speaker in a Leading Role” for Caine

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Torsten Michaelis on the agency website Management Ramona Mohren
  2. ↑ a b Torsten Michaelis. In: German synchronous card index . Retrieved October 19, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b Results of the Radio Play Award 2007
  4. ↑ Nominations for the ear canal 2007
  5. ↑ Winner of the Ohrkanus 2008 ( Memento from May 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) book market from March 17, 2009
  6. ↑ HörKules and HÖRkulino: Awards 2009
  7. ↑ Batman The most dangerous adventures at argon-verlag.de. Retrieved April 16, 2014.
  8. ↑ Philip Kerr Winter Horses argon-verlag.de. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
  9. ↑ https://www.hoer-talk.de/threads/ohrkanus-2010-die-gewinner.10596/
  10. ↑ German speakers in Mass Effect 3 . Retrieved December 5, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Michaelis, Torsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin