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Pam Ferris was born on 11 May 1948 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. She is an actress, known for Matilda (1996), Children of Men (2006) and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). She has been married to Roger Frost since August 1986.- Actor
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Chris Barrie was born Christopher Jonathan Brown on March 28, 1960, in a British military hospital in Hanover, Germany. He was brought up in Northern Ireland and was a boarder at Methodist College Belfast. He was Head Boy in his final year and played the lead in a "Dial M for Murder" production. He started a business course at Brighton Polytechnic but dropped out. After working at various jobs and developing his impressionist skills, he decided to shift careers to television and film.
He originally met Rob Grant and Doug Naylor on Jasper Carrott's Carrott's Lib (1982), and eventually went on to perform on the radio, for a show called "Son of Cliche", which both Rob Grant and Doug Naylor were working on. Around this time, he was working on the television show, Spitting Image (1984).
This association with Rob Grant and Doug Naylor later caused the two of them to have him audition for Red Dwarf (1988). A few years after the beginning of Red Dwarf (1988), he brought life to another character in the sitcom The Brittas Empire (1991).
He lives in Berkshire, England, with his wife Alecks.- Director
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Born in 1973 in Hannover, Germany, Dennis Gansel studied at Munich Film School HFF. Remarkably his first feature length movie Das Phantom (2000) was shot while he was still studying. Between his movies Girls on Top (2001), Before the Fall (2004) and The Wave (2008) he spent a long time struggling for the budget of the films. During these times he shot commercials. Dennis Gansel lives in Berlin.- Actress
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- Music Department
Lena Meyer-Landrut was born on 23 May 1991 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. She is an actress and composer, known for What a Man (2011), Lena: If I Wasn't Your Daughter (2017) and Lena: Thank You (2018). She has been married to Mark Forster since 2020. They have one child.- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Erdogan Atalay was born in Hannover, Germany, on September 22, 1966 to a Turkish father and a German mother. Erdogan took up acting classes at "Hochschule fur Musik und darstellende Kunst" in Hamburg in 1984. After guest-starring in various TV movies and series, Erdogan landed the leading role of Detective Superintendent "Semir Gerkhan" in the series "Alarm fur Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei" in 1995 - this until today.- Actor
- Composer
- Music Department
Klaus Meine was born on 25 May 1948 in Hannover, Germany. He is an actor and composer, known for Hellboy (2019), On Deadly Ground (1994) and Knight and Day (2010). He has been married to Gabi Meine since 24 March 1976.- Actor
- Composer
Daniel Axt is a German actor, voice artist, and musician, best known for his role as Nick in Disneys "Rock it!", as Jannik Anders in the German TV-Series "Forbidden Love" and as Jürgen Neuhaus in Die Brücke (2008).
Axt was born in Langenhagen in 1991 and he got into acting in Hanover in 2005. At age 13, Axt started attending an acting school called TASK. When a tape from a camera acting class was sent to the corresponding kids and teens agency TASK, they saw his potential and signed him at the age of fifteen. He has been with his manager for ten years now. In 2007-08 he started to appear on the German TV-Show crime.de and soon after that starred in the remake of Die Brücke (2008), which starred Franka Potente.
In 2009, at age 17, he got cast in Disney's "Rock it!" for the leading role Nick which he was later nominated for a "New Faces Award" for best actor. The movie's band "Rock it!" (of which Axt was lead singer) played some festivals before they split up. In 2009-10, he signed with the FC Norden 02 agency. In 2010, he started working as a voice actor, when he dubbed the voice of "Hickup" (in German) in Paramount Pictures' How to Train Your Dragon (2010) and How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014). He also did the German dubbing for the role of "Winston" in The Maze Runner film franchise.
When he graduated from school in 2011 he moved to New York City to perfect his English and to study acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School Of The Theatre, where the Meisner technique is taught. After being asked back to the second year in 2012, he graduated from the two year full-time acting program in 2013.
Before he moved back to Germany in 2013 he starred in Jeffrey Sweets play "Cover" as Marty and in Murphy Guyers play "Loyalties" as Rudy in the Rita Morgenthau Theatre, NYC. He appeared as "Wining Boy" in August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson" and as Eric in Jason Katims's "The Man Who Couldn't Dance" at the Signature Theatre (Off-Broadway).
When Axt was seven years old he started playing the guitar and took guitar lessons for seven years. He has been playing ever since and started songwriting early on. In 2012, he was introduced to some some musicians who he later released his first EP "54th street" with (in September 2014). At age 22, he was asked to direct the stage adaptation of "Rock it!" for the theatre at Kurfürstendamm in Berlin. The production including 70 people on stage (orchestra, band, choir and ensemble) premiered in March 2015, ran again in September/October 2015 and in June 2017. From 2011-17 he appeared in several German television shows, TV movies and shorts.
Axt is fluent in German and English.- Actress
Rike Schmid was born on 19 July 1979 in Hannover, Germany. She is an actress, known for Don 2 (2011), Schwere Jungs (2006) and Rote Rosen (2006).- Writer
- Director
- Actress
Dörrie completed her schooling at a humanistic high school, from which she graduated in 1973 with her Abitur. In the same year he spent two years in the USA. There she studied film and acting at the Drama Department at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. This was followed by studies at the New School of Social Research in New York. She also worked in cafés and as a projectionist in the Goethe House in New York. In 1975 she returned to Germany. She then studied at the University of Television and Film in Munich. At the same time, she worked as a film critic journalist for the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Her final film is entitled "The First Waltz" and was broadcast on Bavarian television as "Max and Sandie". Doris Dörrie made various documentaries until 1982. In 1983 she made her first feature film in Munich called "Mitten ins Herz". Three years later she had a cinema hit with the title "Men". The well-known actors Uwe Ochsenknecht and Heiner Lauterbach star in the chaotic relationship comedy. The play became the most successful German film of 1986. Doris Dörrie was married to Helge Weindler from 1988 to 1996. Their daughter Carla was born in 1990.
In 1991 she had another cinema success with the title "Happy Birthday, Turk". She filmed the novel by the German writer Jakob Arjouni, a novel in the Kayankaya series. The witty film is in the tradition of classic detective films and tells the story of the search for a missing person in the Frankfurt milieu. The Turkish private detective Kayankaya, played by Hansa Czypionka, experiences police corruption. In 1994, Doris Dörrie shot the comedy film "Nobody Loves Me" with Maria Schrader. This production is about personal happiness. The work was honored with the silver film ribbon, the leading actress Maria Schrader with the gold film ribbon.
Her other film works include "No Trace of Romanticism" from 1980, "Between" from 1981, "Love in Germany" from 1989 and "Enlightenment Guaranteed" from 1999. Among all her film works The director also wrote the script herself. The films were often cast with well-known actors such as Senta Berger, Gottfried John or Uwe Ochsenknecht. She also shot the documentary entitled "What can it be?" In addition to her role behind the camera, she also performed guest roles in front of the camera. For example, she played in the film "The Leading Man" from 1977 or in "King Kong's Fist" and in "Back to Go" from 2000.
In addition to her film work, Doris Dörrie realized literary projects. This is how the short stories entitled "Love, Pain and All the Damned Stuff" and "What Do You Want from Me?" were created. She also wrote the short story "The Man of My Dreams" and the novel "What Do We Do Now?" In 1991 her collection of short stories entitled "Forever and Ever" was created. The 300-page work was well received by critics. In 2002 her film work entitled "Naked" and her novel "Happy" followed. In 2005 she staged Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich under the musical direction of Zubin Mehta.
In the same year, 2005, she directed Giacomo Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" at the Gärtnerplatztheater. At the Salzburg Festival in 2006 she staged Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "La finta Giardiniera".- Actor
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Helmfried von Lüttichau was born on 20 November 1956 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. He is an actor and writer, known for Hubert ohne Staller (2011), Der letzte Bulle (2010) and Zwei Ärzte sind einer zu viel (2006). He has been married to Gabriela Raible since 2015. He was previously married to Karin Werner.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Caro Cult was born on 27 June 1994 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. She is an actress, known for Babylon Berlin (2017), Tatort (1970) and Fucking Berlin (2016).- Writer
- Producer
- Director
Bora Dagtekin was born on 27 October 1978 in Hannover, Germany. He is a writer and producer, known for Suck Me Shakespeer (2013), The Perfect Secret (2019) and Türkisch für Anfänger (2012).- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Veit Helmer was born on 24 April 1968 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. He is a director and producer, known for Tuvalu (1999), Surprise! (1995) and Absurdistan (2008).- Kathrin Kühnel was born on 10 January 1977 in Hannover, Germany. She is an actress, known for Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013), Die Novizin (2002) and Tatort (1970).
- Roswitha Szyszkowitz was born on 1 February 1972 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. She is an actress, known for Tatort (1970), Wonderful and Loved by All (2007) and Heimspiel (2004).
- Anke Retzlaff was born on 25 March 1989 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. She is an actress, known for Puppe (2012), Tatort (1970) and Für immer Sommer.
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Oliver Broumis was born in Hannover, Germany where he grew up.
Right after College he went to the Hamburg University of Music and Dramatic Arts for a 4 years education in acting. Since then, he also did a lot of training in Los Angeles with M. K. Lewis (Film Tech), Sam Christensen (S. Chr. Process) and Frank Betzelt, Berlin (Meisner Technique). He began his professional life with the German/Swiss film "Immer & Ewig"/"Always & Forever", a modern version of the Jean Paul Sartre play "The game is over". At the same time he also started in theaters all over Germany with plays of Shakespeare, Goethe and others.
Through the war movies "Stalingrad" and "Hasenjagd"/"The quality of mercy" he discovered his fondness and ability to play emotional disturbed and volatile characters.
In 2002 his interest in film politics made him one of the co-founders of the "film.lounge.berlin", a meeting and networking spot for the Berlin film industry.
In 2004 he played the German zoologist and wild life activist "Bernhard Grzimek" who was responsible for the conservation of natural world heritage like the Tanzanian Serengeti National Park. As a boy of 4 years he grew up with Bernhard Grzimek's monthly TV show and he decided to become this fighting man - 3 decades later that happened.
Also in 2004 he produced the documentary "Zwischen Kopf and Himmel" of a young first time director. It is a movie about the life of women in East Africa.
At the moment he his working with a German director on the script of "Rigby". A film about death and the process of dying. The story explores the question If you are able to live in the presence of your own mortality and transience, what benefits for your life you will get out of it ?! For research he worked a few weeks in a local hospice. He will also play the main part in the film.
He is also working on two documentaries for the first time. In 2013 he did the "Raindance Berlin Documentary Foundation Course" (Raindance Film Festival) to expand his abilities as a filmmaker.
From 2013 to 2015 he was a coach and director for prison theater in womens prison Berlin - Pankow, projects "Home" and "Identity"
In Feb. 2021 he took part with 184 other LGBTQIA+ Actors in the Initiative #Actout of the famous german SZ-Magazin.
In his private life he is an enthusiastic traveler around the world.
Oliver Broumis is based in Berlin.- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Nele Wohlatz was born in 1982 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. She is a director and producer, known for The Future Perfect (2016), Sleep with Your Eyes Open (2024) and Ricardo Bär (2013).- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Lars Becker was born on 12 January 1954 in Hannover, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Zum Sterben zu früh (2015), Nachtschicht (2003) and Kanak Attack (2000).- Actress
- Editor
- Director
Barbara Kowa was born on 5 March 1973 in Hannover, Germany. She is an actress and editor, known for Dreaming Mali (2010), Blues (2012) and Lexx (1996).- Director
- Production Manager
- Location Management
Marc Schölermann was born on 14 October 1971 in Hannover, Germany. He is a director and production manager, known for Pathology (2008), Inner City Blues (1998) and Ende (1998).- Actress
- Director
Lena Kalisch was born in 1989 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. She is an actress and director, known for The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch (2018), Tatort (1970) and Fucking Drama (2017).- Hanns Lothar was born on 10 April 1929 in Hannover, Germany. He was an actor, known for One, Two, Three (1961), The Buddenbrooks (1959) and The Buddenbrooks (1959). He was married to Wiemer, Gabriele, Ingrid Andree and Kari Noller. He died on 11 March 1967 in Hamburg, West Germany.
- Matthias Fuchs was born on 3 November 1939 in Hannover, Germany. He was an actor, known for Der erste Frühlingstag (1956), Ferien auf Immenhof (1957) and Lola (1981). He was married to Ilse Welter. He died on 31 December 2001 in Hamburg, Germany.
- Herbert Bötticher was born on 19 December 1928 in Hannover, Germany. He was an actor, known for Dream City (1973), Blut floss auf Blendings Castle (1967) and Hamlet (1960). He was married to Doris Gallart. He died on 8 October 2008 in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.