Kostja Ullmann (born May 30, 1984) is a German actor, best known for his leading role in the award-winning coming of age drama ''

Sommersturm ''Summer Storm'' (german: Sommersturm) is a 2004 German coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner, starring Robert Stadlober, Kostja Ullmann, Alicja Bachleda-Curuś, and Miriam Morgenstern. The story is set to the backgro ...

'' (''Summer Storm'') which gained a lot of praise throughout

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Life and career

Ullmann was born in

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to a German father and an Indian mother. He entered the stage at the age of eleven and performed at Hamburg's Ernst Deutsch Theater and Winterhuder Fährhaus. In 1998, he made his TV debut in a minor part in the crime series '' Alphateam''. In the following years, Ullmann starred in several minor roles in TV series such as '' Stahlnetz'', ''

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'', and ''

Leipzig Homicide ''Leipzig Homicide (SOKO Leipzig)'' is a German crime drama television series first broadcast on 31 January 2001 on ZDF. More than 400 episodes have been screened since. On 12 November 2008, the first of a two-part crossover between ''SOKO Leip ...

'' as well as in TV movies such as the drama ''Albtraum einer Ehe'' (2001) alongside August Zirner. From 1999 to 2000, he was a cast member of the comedy series ''Zwei Männer am Herd'' with Wolfgang Fierek and Florian Fitz. In 2004, Kostja Ullmann made his movie debut in a leading role in Marco Kreuzpaintner's award-winning film ''

'' (''Summer Storm''). His performance in the romantic TV drama ''Heimliche Liebe'' about the relationship of a schoolboy and an older woman won Ullmann the Günther-Strack-Fernsehpreis as Best Actor in 2006. In his second movie, ' (2006), Ullmann stars in a similar role. Directed by

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, he plays a young delinquent who engages in an "amour fou" with his probation officer who is more than 30 years older than he is. The film won a Golden Leopard at the 2006

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. He acted as Hermann Lake in German-Japan collaborated movie ''

Baruto no Gakuen or ''Ode to Joy'' is a Japanese film released in 2006 and based on the true story of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. It depicts the friendship of the German POWs with the director of the camp and local residents at the stage of Nar ...

'' (''Ode an die Freude'') in 2006. Ullmann played the lead role, Luca Behrendt, in the 2008 movie ''Die Zeit, die man Leben nennt''. Ullmann will voice Wirt in the German dub of ''

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''.

Filmography

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* German male television actors 1984 births Living people Male actors from Hamburg German male film actors German male child actors German people of Indian descent 20th-century German male actors 21st-century German male actors {{Germany-screen-actor-stub