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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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He received for his performance as the Nazi architect Albert Speer the German TV Award. Koch appeared in Stauffenberg (2004 by Jo Baier and winner of the German Film Award) and he played Albert Speer in Heinrich Breoler's mini-series Speer und Er in 2004 – his third collaboration with the director following Death Game and The Manns – A Novel of the Century. He appeared in The Tunnel, a 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. Koch has portrayed historically significant personalities, among Rudolf Höss in Costa-Gavras Hochhuth's adaptation Amen (Der Stellvertreter). He portrayed the youthful lover of Catherine Deneuve, Rodolphe Löwenstein, in Marie und Freud. His first international productions included the historical drama Napoleon, which Koch in appeared alongside Gérard Depardieu, John Malkovich and Isabella Rossellini and brought him more attention. In addition, Koch received the Bavarian TV Award for the same movie. The latter was furthermore distinguished as 'TV event of the year' with the German Television Award. He 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.įor the title role in Dance with the Devil and for his performance as the writer Klaus Mann in Heinrich Breloer's docudrama The Manns – A Novel of the Century, he won respectively in 2002 the Adolf Grimme Award, one of the most prestigious awards for German television.

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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. A couple of years later, he took over the role of Lord Goring in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband in the playhouse Bochum under the direction of Armin Holz. At the Schiller theatre in Berlin he played the character Roller in Schiller's The Robbers and Orest in Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris. Koch portrayed amongst other Peer Gynt and Leonce in Leonce and Lena at the municipal theatre of Darmstadt. In addition to his cinematic work, he played a diversity of different roles on stage. He originally wanted to be a musician, but production by artistic director Claus Peymann influenced him in the late 1970s to change careers to become an actor.įrom 1982 to 1985, Koch studied at the renowned Otto Falckenberg School in Munich. Koch grew up in Stuttgart with his mother who was a single parent. He 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 Düring in the fifth season of the Showtime series Homeland. Sebastian Koch (born ) is a German television and film actor. Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany