Torsten Voges

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Torsten Voges (* 1962 in Germany) is a German actor with a film career in Hollywood .

life and career

As a teenager, Torsten Voges made his film debut with a small role in the drama Moritz, dear Moritz (1978), which he owed to his mother's acquaintance with the director Hark Bohm . After graduating from high school, the son of a business lawyer lived temporarily with his aunt in Foster City , California , and also studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco . After completing his studies, Voges moved back to Germany, where he played alongside Heinz Drache at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm and had a permanent engagement at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus for six years . From the beginning of the 1990s he also appeared in some television productions, mostly in smaller roles.

In 1997 Voges moved from Germany to Hollywood, among other things because he was disappointed by the German film industry and the indifference of theater viewers to the plays shown. After just a few months he got a notable role in the cult film The Big Lebowski : he played the German nihilist Franz under the direction of the Coen brothers . Also because of his striking height of 2.00 meters, he was mainly in bizarre, often terrifying roles in Hollywood occupied, in Rob Zombie's horror film Lords of Salem (2012) he played a Norwegian satanist. His other Hollywood roles include the portrayal of a woman in Rent a Man (1999) and Adam Sandler's doctor in How Life plays (2009). He took on guest roles in series like Seinfeld and Malcolm in the middle ; in Eastwick in 2009 he played the role of "Fidel" in nine episodes.

In the free times between film shoots, he also works as a B-dubbing actor (B-Synchron refers to a preliminary German dubbing for US films that are shown e.g. on airline flights). Torsten Voges is married for the second time and has one grown daughter. A few years ago, Voges moved back to Germany, but is still taking on roles in Hollywood. Personally, however, he would rather not advise Germans to go to Hollywood, since most German careers there are characterized by unemployment and insecurity.

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Julia Friese: Bye-bye, Hollywood. In: Berliner Morgenpost . March 24, 2013. Retrieved August 29, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Jana Simon : Out of Germany. In: The time . February 21, 2013. Retrieved August 29, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Voges, Torsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Germany