Berlin
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) is a German
actor
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director
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Literature
* ''Director'' (magazine), a British magazine
* ''The Director'' (novel), a 1971 novel by Henry Denker
* ''The Director'' (play), a 2000 play by Nancy Hasty
Music
* Director (band), an Irish rock band
* ''D ...
. He won the Undine Award for Best Young Leading Actor in the 2005 film ''Keller – Teenage Wasteland''.
Early life
Moya was born in
Prenzlauer Berg
Prenzlauer Berg () is a locality of Berlin, forming the southerly and most urban district of the borough of Pankow. From its founding in 1920 until 2001, Prenzlauer Berg was a district of Berlin in its own right. However, that year it was incor ...
,
Berlin
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. He went to six different schools including the Berlin State Ballet School, and went to school in the US for half a year in 2005. Moya started his film career during his early teens, while at comprehensive school in Mitte, Berlin. He left school before Grade 10, due to having to travel and stay away for periods of time to make films, such as "The Angel Tonight" in
Munich
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for 14 days in 2006. He received a
scholarship
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Scholars ...
Sergei Moya's first acting role aged 12, was in 2001 in the German movie ''Female 2 Seeks Happy End'' with
Ben Becker
Ben Becker (born 19 December 1964) is a German film, theatre and voice actor.
Biography
Becker was born in Bremen, the son of actress Monika Hansen and actor Rolf Becker. He is the brother of actress Meret Becker and the stepson of Otto San ...
. There followed a small role in the remake of the Erich Kästner 's novel ''Emil and the Detectives''. The acting breakthrough came in 2003 alongside
Götz George
Götz George (; 23 July 1938 – 19 June 2016) was a German actor, the son of actor couple Berta Drews and Heinrich George. His arguably best-known role is that of Duisburg detective Horst Schimanski in the TV crime series ''Tatort''.
Early lif ...
and
Klaus J. Behrendt
Klaus Johannes Behrendt (born 7 February 1960) is a German actor. Since 1992 he has starred in the Westdeutscher Rundfunk version of the popular television crime series ''Tatort''; he also starred in the 2008 film '' Die Bienen – Tödliche Bedr ...
Grimme Award
The Grimme-Preis ("Grimme Award"; prior to 2011: Adolf-Grimme-Preis) is one of the most prestigious German television awards. It is named after the first general director of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk, Adolf Grimme.) WDR television movie ''
Mein Vater
''Mein Vater'' (English: ''Coming Home'') is a 2003 German television film directed by Andreas Kleinert.
Klaus J. Behrendt was awarded in 2003, the 'Audience Award of the Marl Group' at the Adolf Grimme Prize and the Bavarian Television Award. I ...
''. In 2005, he once again acted beside Götz George in a '' Schimanski'' episode.
In the Sat.1 series, he played a case for the Old Fox, as the son of Walter Sittler and then in the ARD series ''Commissario Laurenti'', he was alongside of
Henry Hübchen
Henry Hübchen (born 20 February 1947 in Berlin) is a German actor who played the title character in the award-winning 2004 film '' Go for Zucker''. That performance earned him a Lola, Germany's equivalent of an Oscar, and critical praise at h ...
. For his role in ''Keller - Teenage Wasteland'', Moya received the 2006 Undine Award for best actor in a feature film. In 2006, he was next to
Uwe Ochsenknecht
Uwe Adam Ochsenknecht (; born 7 January 1956) is a German actor and singer.
Career
Films Ochsenknecht has starred in include '' Das Boot'' (1981), ''Schtonk!'' (1992), and the TV miniseries '' Frank Herbert's Dune'' (2000).
In the early 1990 ...
in ''Der beste Lehrer der Welt''. In 2007, he was nominated for a Golden Romy as "Most Popular Shooting Star". Moya has no degree and has been focusing on acting since the beginning of 2006. He has appeared in several TV series such as ''Polizeiruf 110'', ''Commissario Laurenti'', ''Der Alte'' and several ''Tatort'' episodes.
Career as a director and screenwriter
He founded a film company, ''Von Fiessbach Film'', with his girlfriend and producer Julia Lischinski, and friend Sascha Pollack.
Since 2009, Moya has also worked as a director and author. His short film ''Hollywood Drama'' was part of the competition at the film festival Max Ophüls Preis 2010 and was shown in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino series of the Berlinale 2010. His film project ''Hotel Desire'', an erotic film with
Clemens Schick
Clemens Schick (born 15 February 1972) is a German actor, model, political activist and human rights advocate.
He has appeared in more than seventy films since 1998, including leading roles in both German and international productions. He has ap ...
and Saralisa Volm, was funded by crowdfunding. The sum of 170,000 euros was collected before the official deadline of 80 days. The later found the budget of $241,000 to complete the film.
In 2014, the 26-year-old Moya directed a TV film, about actor
Jan Josef Liefers
Jan Josef Liefers (born 8 August 1964), is a German actor, producer, director and musician.
Life
Liefers was born in Dresden, the son of director Karlheinz Liefers and actress Brigitte Liefers-Wähner. After his apprenticeship he studied at th ...
, ''Jan Josef Liefers - soundtrack of my life'' on the MDR channel . Tatjana Kerschbaumer noted in
Tagesspiegel
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about the film, "Rarely has it been possible to summarize the biography of a person, music history and politics in such a condensed and anything but tenuous way".
Awards
* 2005 - (Austrian Media Prize) ''Undine Award'' for Best Young Leading Actor in the film ''Keller – Teenage Wasteland''
* 2008 - "Best Actor" at the Madrid Mostoles International Film Festival
* 2009 - Moya received the Max Ophüls Award for "Best Newcomer"