Harvey Friedman (born 1959), sometimes credited as Harvey Friedmann, is an American

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and

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

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Early life and education

He was born in

Pittsburgh Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Wester ...

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...

, and studied drama at

Carnegie-Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

in Pittsburgh.

Career

Friedman began his acting career in the theatre. He toured

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

with a theater company and settled in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

, Germany. He has appeared on German television and in international co-productions since the 1980s and played Dr.

Joseph Goebbels Paul Joseph Goebbels (; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician who was the ''Gauleiter'' (district leader) of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 19 ...

in the film

Valkyrie In Norse mythology, a valkyrie ("chooser of the slain") is one of a host of female figures who guide souls of the dead to the god Odin's hall Valhalla. There, the deceased warriors become (Old Norse "single (or once) fighters"Orchard (1997:36) ...

(2008), directed by

Bryan Singer Bryan Jay Singer (born September 17, 1965) is an American filmmaker. He is the founder of Bad Hat Harry Productions and has produced almost all of the films he has directed. After graduating from the University of Southern California, Singer d ...

Partial film and television work

*1988: ''

Midnight Cop ''Midnight Cop'' (german: Killing Blue) is a 1988 drama film directed by Peter Patzak, made in Germany. Plot The film, which has many humorous moments, is set in Berlin, and concerns a burnt-out (and somewhat corrupt) police detective Alex G ...

'' *1989: ''

Fool's Mate In chess, the fool's mate is the checkmate delivered after the fewest possible moves from the game's starting position. It arises from the following moves, or similar: :1. f3 e6 :2. g4 Qh4# The fool's mate can be achieved only by Black, givin ...

'' *1990: '' The Being from Earth'' *1997: ' *1997: '' Meschugge'' *1999: ''How Norman Mailer Stabbed His Wife in the Breast'' *2001: ''My Sweet Home'' *2002: ''Berlin Beshert'' *2003: '' Hitler: The Rise of Evil'', television

miniseries A miniseries or mini-series is a television series that tells a story in a predetermined, limited number of episodes. "Limited series" is another more recent US term which is sometimes used interchangeably. , the popularity of miniseries format h ...

*2004: '' Beyond the Sea'''' *2008: ''

Speed Racer ''Speed Racer'', also known as , is a Japanese media franchise about Auto racing, automobile racing. ''Mach GoGoGo'' was originally serialized in print in Shueisha's 1966 ''Shōnen Book''. It was released in tankōbon book form by Sun W ...

'' *2008: ''

'' *2009: ' *2013: ' *2013: ''The Voices'' *2015: ''

Sense8 ''Sense8'' (a play on the word '' sensate'' ) is an American science fiction drama streaming television series created by Lana and Lilly Wachowski and J. Michael Straczynski for Netflix. The production companies behind ''Sense8'' included th ...

'' *2015: ''Die Akte General'' *2015: '' Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe'' *2017: '' Submergence'' *2018: ''Murer – Anatomie eines Prozesses'' *2020: '' Unorthodox''

Personal life

After settling in Germany, Friedman married Cynthia Barcomi, an American coffee-roaster and cookbook author.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Friedman, Harvey 1959 births American emigrants to Germany American male film actors American male stage actors American male television actors Living people Male actors from Pittsburgh Carnegie Mellon University College of Fine Arts alumni