1. Sebastian Koch is known for roles in the 2007 Academy Award-winning film The Lives of Others, in Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies, and as Otto During in the fifth season of the Showtime series Homeland.
29 Facts About Sebastian Koch
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Sebastian Koch grew up in Stuttgart with his mother, a single parent.
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Sebastian Koch originally wanted to be a musician, but a production by artistic director Claus Peymann influenced him in the late 1970s to change careers to become an actor.
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From 1982 to 1985, Koch studied at the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts in Munich.
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Sebastian Koch acted in Peer Gynt and Leonce in Leonce and Lena at the municipal theatre of Darmstadt.
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Sebastian Koch took over the role of Lord Goring in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband in the Bochum Playhouse, under the direction of Armin Holz.
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Sebastian Koch had his first TV appearance in 1980 in the 77th episode of the series Derrick, followed by an episode in the popular crime series Tatort in 1986.
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Sebastian Koch acted in numerous thrillers like Der Mann mit der Maske, Die brennende Schnecke, and in 1997 in Heinrich Breloer's two-piece Death Game, in which he portrayed the role of Andreas Baader.
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Sebastian Koch received the Bavarian TV Award for the same movie.
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Sebastian Koch portrayed the youthful lover of Catherine Deneuve, Rodolphe Lowenstein, in Marie und Freud.
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Sebastian Koch has portrayed other historically significant personalities, including Rudolf Hoss in Costa-Gavras' adaptation Amen.
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Sebastian Koch appeared in The Tunnel, a 2001 made-for-television German film about the idea of going underground by digging a tunnel shortly after the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, and in Peter Keglevic's historical drama Two Days of Hope about the uprising on 17 June 1953.
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Sebastian Koch appeared in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's drama The Lives of Others in 2006 as one of the leading roles.
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Sebastian Koch portrayed the playwright Georg Dreyman, who lived in East Germany with his lover, a dissident who was spied on and monitored.
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Sebastian Koch himself was nominated several times for his work in the film, receiving the Globo d'oro for Best European Actor, The Quadriga, and the Bambi Award.
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Sebastian Koch played a Nazi officer in occupied Holland who falls in love with a Jewish member of the resistance.
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The mini-series won the Directors Guild of Canada Award and Sebastian Koch was nominated in 2010 for an Emmy Award for his role as Wolf Larsen.
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In 2010, Sebastian Koch was the male title role in the English independent tragicomedy Albatross under the direction of Niall MacCormick.
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In 2011, Sebastian Koch appeared in the Czech production The Shadow of the Horse, in which Sebastian Koch played the leading role of the investigator Zenk, whose mission is to win through one personal rival and through the regime of communist Prague in the 50s.
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Furthermore, Sebastian Koch played the title role in Suspension of Disbelief, a thriller by Mike Figgis, which was followed by part 5 of the Die Hard movies, with Sebastian Koch as Bruce Willis' antagonist.
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Sebastian Koch played the role of the Vatican's secretary Cardinal Marco Malerba, who is one of the true potentates of the inner circle.
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In 2014, Sebastian Koch was part of Steven Spielberg's historical dramatic thriller Bridge of Spies about the negotiations of the release of spies between the East and West.
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Sebastian Koch portrays Kurt Warnekros, a doctor at the Dresden Municipal Women's Clinic, who was one of the first to carry out such operations.
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Sebastian Koch won the Bambi award for "Best Actor National" in Never Look Away in 2018.
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In 2020, Sebastian Koch starred in the German-Canadian television series The Defeated by Mans Marlind.
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Sebastian Koch is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscar.
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Sebastian Koch has frequently served as an interpreter of literary and musical-literary audiobooks and live performances of them.
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In 2012, he produced the audiobook Sebastian Koch is reading Heuss about speeches and letters by Theodor Heuss, in collaboration with Cherbuliez Productions.
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Sebastian Koch was in a relationship with actress Carice van Houten, whom he met on the set of the film Black Book, from 2005 to 2009.