1. Nicholas Schubring Saputra was born on 24 February 1984 and is an Indonesian actor and film producer.
32 Facts About Nicholas Saputra
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Nicholas Saputra has served as executive producer and producer of several environmental films through his production company, Tanakhir Films.
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In 2019, Nicholas Saputra was named a UNICEF Indonesia Goodwill Ambassador.
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Nicholas Saputra was born on 24 February 1984 in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Horst Schbring, a German father, and an Indonesian-Javanese mother from Yogyakarta.
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Nicholas Saputra was named as one of valedictorians in high school.
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Nicholas Saputra holds a degree in architecture from University of Indonesia.
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Nicholas Saputra started his career in fashion industry as a runway model and has appeared in magazine's covers when he was in high school.
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Nicholas Saputra was scouted by a teen magazine while playing baseball in Gelora Bung Karno Stadium when he was fifteen.
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In 2003, Nicholas Saputra was cast as a violinist in Biola Tak Berdawai, written and directed by Sekar Ayu Asmara.
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Nicholas Saputra landed another lead role in Joko Anwar's 2005 romantic comedy Janji Joni as a roll film delivery man, playing opposite Mariana Renata, which won him Most Favorite Actor award at the 2005 MTV Indonesia Movie Awards and Best Actor award at the 2007 Indonesian Movie Awards.
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Nicholas Saputra made his first television appearances on Channel V Asia, hosting such segments as The Ticket and Screentime in 2007, and became the co-presenter at the 2007 Asian Film Awards alongside Lee Byung Hun and Daniel Wu.
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Nicholas Saputra played in Riri Riza's 3 Hari Untuk Selamanya in the same year.
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The film won Best Direction at the 2008 Brussels International Independent Film Festival and Best Indonesian Film Award at the 2007 Jakarta International Film Festival, while Nicholas Saputra was nominated for Best Actor award at the 2008 Indonesian Film Festival and won Best Leading Actor at the 2009 Guardians e-Awards.
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In 2008, Nicholas Saputra starred in omnibus film Cinta Setaman, and reunited with Dian Sastrowardoyo in two films; a short musical film adapted from the epic Mahabharata Drupadi, and 3 Doa 3 Cinta, respectively.
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Nicholas Saputra was appointed as a jury member of the Best Asian Film competition in the 2008 Singapore International Film Festival, and as French Film Ambassador for the 2009 French Film Festival in Indonesia.
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Nicholas Saputra became co-presenter at the 2009 Asian Film Awards alongside Chie Tanaka.
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Nicholas Saputra became a sportcaster for Malaysian TV station TV3 in 2011.
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Nicholas Saputra next starred in two indies in 2012 and 2013, respectively; Edwin's Postcards from the Zoo which had its premiere at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, and Mouly Surya's What They Don't Talk About When They Talk About Love as a deaf man who falls in love with a blind girl.
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Nicholas Saputra embarked on the film production for the first time as an executive producer alongside director Riri Riza in 2013 for Sokola Rimba, which tells the story of activist Butet Manurung who teaches Orang Rimba people, based on a book with the same title.
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Eight years after Janji Joni, Nicholas Saputra reunited with co-star Mariana Renata in a South Korean-Indonesian joint production film Someone's Wife in the Boat of Someone's Husband; a part of Jeonju International Film Festival's Jeonju Digital Project.
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Nicholas Saputra acted in his first action film Pendekar Tongkat Emas in 2014 alongside Christine Hakim, where he played a mysterious warrior, Elang, a role that involved heavily choreographed fight sequences.
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Nicholas Saputra next co-produced, narrated and appeared in Save Our Forest Giants, a short documentary film to raise awareness about elephant conservation, in collaboration with the European Union Delegation to Indonesia.
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In early 2018, Nicholas Saputra was appointed as the jury member for South-east Asian film maker competition in the 2nd HOOQ Filmmakers Guild.
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Nicholas Saputra closed the 2018 by leading in all three omnibus episodes of Asian Three-Fold Mirror 2018: The Journey, directed by Japan's Daichi Matsunaga, Indonesia's Edwin and China's Degena Yun.
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In November 2019, Nicholas Saputra was chosen to become the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
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Nicholas Saputra joined the Leuser ecosystem foundation campaign to raise public awareness about the ecosystem conservation located in Mount Leuser National Park.
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In 2024, Nicholas Saputra starred with Filipino actor Julia Barretto and South Korean actor Sang Heon Lee in Viu Philippines' romantic miniseries Secret Ingredient.
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Nicholas Saputra is an avid traveler and has already ventured into the North and Latin America, Europe, Africa, and all around Indonesia.
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Nicholas Saputra once lived in a remote village in Flores and has been on a boat that nearly capsized.
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Nicholas Saputra became an environmentalist after he joined an NGO to volunteer for the Aceh tsunami's aftermath in March 2005, three months after the catastrophe.
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Nicholas Saputra has been a part of The Nature Conservancy since 2008, during which he introduced classrooms and a travelling library to the area of Raja Ampat, Papua.
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Nicholas Saputra remains active in forest and orangutan conservation efforts in Indonesia.