Ken Duken
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| Born |
17 April 1979 Heidelberg, West Germany |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Spouse(s) | Marisa Leonie Bach (2000–present) |
| Children | Viggo Duken |
Ken Duken (born 17 April 1979) is a German actor.
Ken Duken is the third child of film and stage actress Christina Loeb, his father is a doctor. Duken never attended a drama school but took courses in drama, including under James Reynold. The actor initially played various theatre roles, including in such plays as Der Besuch der alten Dame (The visit of the old lady), Das Haus in Montevideo (The house in Montevideo) and in various Shakespeare plays. He debuted as a film actor in 1997, playing a small role in the television crime film Blutiger Ernst alongside Nadja Uhl and Daniel Brühl.
Duken played his first major role on a movie screen in 1999, alongside Franka Potente and Heiner Lauterbach in Friedemann Fromm's Schlaraffenland (Land of Milk and Honey). That same year he starred in Miguel Alexandre's drama Gran Paradiso, which was nominated for the German Film Award. For this film, in which he plays Mark, a young wheelchair user, he completed three months wheelchair-training. In 2003 he played a major role in Tödlicher Umweg (Deadly detour) by Curt Faudon. In 2005 his career continued in the cinema, with Buket Alakus's award-winning tragicomedy Eine andere Liga (Another league).
Duken was a member of the cast in the core produced by ZDF since 2002 police drama series Night Shift by Lars Becker as a young Commissioner Teddy Schrader.
Also known is his portrayal of a Communist spy in the movie Karol - A Man Who Became Pope.
In the autumn of 2006 he was in Tolstoy's War and Peace by Robert Dornhelm in Russia and Lithuania, in which he played the role of Anatol Kuragin. The SWR teleplay Welcome home, Ken embodied in the war returnees Ben Winter, was shot mid-December 2007.
In 2003, together with Duken including Bernd Katzmarczyk and Norbert Kneissl worked with the production company Grand Hôtel Pictures. In its first work From another point of view he plays next to his wife Marisa Leonie Bach and Dominique Pinon. In 2009, he continued his own production number with the psycho-thriller Distance.
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