Sebastian Koch
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Koch in 2011.
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| Born |
31 May 1962 Karlsruhe, West Germany |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Website | www |
Sebastian Koch (born 31 May 1962) is a German television and film actor. 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.
Koch grew up in Stuttgart with his single mother. He originally wanted to be a musician, but the production of the artistic director Claus Peymann influenced him in the late 70s to change his career aspiration in becoming an actor.
From 1982 to 1985 Koch studied at the renowned Otto Falckenberg School in Munich. In addition to his cinematic work, he showed a diversity of different roles on stage. Koch portrayed amongst other Peer Gynt and Leonce in Leonce and Lena at the municipal theatre of Darmstadt. At the Schiller theatre in Berlin he played the character Roller in Schiller's The Robbers and Orest in Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris. A couple of years later he took over the role the Lord Goring in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband in the playhouse Bochum under the direction of Armin Holz.
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. He acted in numerous thrillers like Der Mann mit der Maske, Die brennende Schnecke and in 1997 in Heinrich Breloer’s Heinrich Breloer's two-piece Todesspiel, in which he portrayed the role of Andreas Baader.
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