Vladimir Burlakov (russian: Владимир Бурлаков; born 22 July 1987) is a German actor of Russian descent, known for his portrayal of Thomas Posimski in ''

Deutschland 83 ''Deutschland 83'' is a 2015 German television series starring Jonas Nay as a 24-year-old native of East Germany who, in 1983, is sent to West Germany as an undercover spy for the HVA, the foreign intelligence agency of the Stasi. It is a co-pr ...

'' and ''

Deutschland 86 ''Deutschland 86'' () is a 2018 German television series starring Jonas Nay as an agent of East Germany in 1986, in relation to the Angolan Civil War. It is a sequel to the 2015 series ''Deutschland 83'' and precedes the 2020 series ''Deutschl ...

''.

Biography

Burlakov was born in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

Russian SFSR The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

(now Russia). In 1996, he and his family moved to Germany. From 2006 to 2010 he studied at

Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts The Otto Falckenberg Schule – Fachakademie für darstellende Kunst der Landeshauptstadt München, or Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts, is a higher education academy in Munich training actors and directors, affiliated to the Munic ...

. In November 2021, he came out as

gay ''Gay'' is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual. The term originally meant 'carefree', 'cheerful', or 'bright and showy'. While scant usage referring to male homosexuality dates to the late 1 ...

. He has a partner.

Filmography

Films

*' (2012) *''

Bright Nights ''Bright Nights'' (german: Helle Nächte) is a 2017 German drama film directed by Thomas Arslan. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival The 67th annual Be ...

'' (2017) *'' Iron Sky: The Coming Race'' (2019) as Sasha

Television

*''

Im Angesicht des Verbrechens ''Im Angesicht des Verbrechens'' (English title: ''In the Face of Crime'') is a German television series about the Russian mafia in Berlin. It received high critical acclaim, but the viewer figures were disappointing. The 10 episodes of the ser ...

'' (2010) *''

SOKO Stuttgart ''SOKO Stuttgart'' (English title: ''Stuttgart Homicide'') is a German police procedural television series that premiered on 12 November 2009 on ZDF. It is the eighth offshoot of ''SOKO München'', launched in 1978 under the name ''SOKO 5113''. ...

'' (2011), single episode *''

Der Kriminalist ' is a German television series produced by Monaco Film Hamburg, subsidiary of Odeon Film. Directors during the first season were Sherry Hormann and , during the second: Thomas Jahn, Jobst Oetzmann Jobst Christian Oetzmann (born 4 November 196 ...

'' (2011) *''

Der letzte Bulle ''Der letzte Bulle'' (''The Last Cop'') is a German television series that was first aired in 2010. The series is about a policeman from the 1980s put into a modern police department in Essen. Plot The show is set in Essen, in the center of th ...

'' (2013), single episode *''

Wilsberg ''Wilsberg'' is a German TV series based on novels about the fictional private detective Georg Wilsberg. A first TV episode was aired in 1995, five years after the release of the first novel, starring Joachim Król. Since the second episode (aired ...

'' (2013), single episode *''

'' (2015) as Thomas Posimski *''

SOKO Köln ''SOKO Köln'' (English title: ''Cologne P.D.'') is a German police procedural television series that premiered on 22 October 2003 on ZDF. It is the fourth offshoot of ''SOKO München'', launched in 1978 under the name ''SOKO 5113''. "SOKO" is a ...

'' (2015), single episode *''

'' (2018) as Thomas Posimski * ''Lore'' (2018), single episode (S2E3) * ''Beat'' (2018), recurring *''

Tatort ''Tatort'' ("Crime scene") is a German language police procedural television series that has been running continuously since 1970 with some 30 feature-length episodes per year, which makes it the longest-running German TV drama. Developed by ...

'', single episodes in 2016 and 2018, since 2020 main cast as Leo Hölzer * ''Kleo'' as Andi Wolf (2022)

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* * 1987 births Russian emigrants to Germany Living people German gay actors German male film actors German male television actors {{Germany-actor-stub