Jonas Nay (, born 20 September 1990) is a German actor and musician known for starring as Martin Rauch 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 ...

'' and its sequels, ''

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 '' Deutsch ...

'' and '' Deutschland 89''.

Early life

Jonas Nay was born in

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in 1990 days before the reunification of Germany. An active boy, he rarely watched television growing up preferring to spend his leisure time on his interests of sport and music. He received his secondary education at the , a ' (selective school) with a music specialty, where he also played in the school's band.

Career

Because of his interest in the theatre, Nay responded to a newspaper advertisement looking for actors in 2004 and successfully auditioned for a part in the German children's series ' on German TV station NDR. In the first two seasons of the television series, Nay portrayed character Otti Sörensen while using the stage name Jonas Friedebom. In the following years, he played minor roles in several television productions on German television stations ARD and

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. After finishing school, Nay took the lead role in the TV film ''Homevideo'', a drama about a teenage boy bullied by his classmates, who shared a video of him masturbating. The production was awarded Best TV film at the 2011

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. Nay himself received a German Television Award, as well as a 2012 Award, for his role. This work was followed by other leading roles in TV films. In 2012, Nay had a role as Hamburg investigator Cenk Batu in ''

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 b ...

: '', about a disturbed serial killer who is killed by his mother in the heat of the moment. For his role as the son of a schizophrenic in the 2013 film ', he was awarded the

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in 2013 as "Best Newcomer." Nay opted for ', rather than

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, working with people with disabilities; he went on to look at

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. He founded the band Concerted with other students at the he had attended in his adolescence, in which he sang, played guitar and piano, and wrote the lyrics. The band worked on music for the

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film ''

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'' in January 2013. The result was the forming of the new band Northern Lights. In 2015, Nay starred as Martin Rauch, an

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spy, in the Cold War thriller ''

'', the first German-language TV series shown on American television, and later its 2018 and 2020 sequels, ''

and Deutschland 89''. He reached a certain level of international recognition for this role being interviewed by multiple media outlets in the

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and

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. Nay sings and plays the keyboard for the band Pudeldame. In February 2021, it was announced that Nay had been cast alongside actor

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in the film ''1000 Zeilen (1000 Lines)'', a thriller based on the book ''Tausend Zeilen Lüge. Das System Relotius und der deutsche Journalismus'' by Juan Moreno about the 2018

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scandal which involved former journalist

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from '' Der Spiegel''.

Filmography

* 2005–06: ' (TV series) * 2007: ' (TV series) * 2007: ' (TV series) * 2008: ' (TV series) * 2009: ' (TV series) * 2009: ' (short film) * 2011: ' (TV series) * 2011: '' Homevideo'' (TV film) * 2011: ' (TV film) * 2012: ''

: '' (''Crime Scene: The Ballad of Cenk and Valerie'') * 2012: ' (TV film) * 2012: ''

: '' * 2013: ' (TV film) * 2013: ' (TV film) * 2013: ' (film) * 2013: ' (TV film) * 2014: ' (film) * 2014: ''Dear Courtney'' (film) * 2015: ' (TV film) * 2015: '' We Are Young. We Are Strong'' (film) * 2015: ''Unser letzter Sommer (Summer Solstice)'' (film) * 2015: ''

'' (TV series) * 2016: ' (TV film) * 2018: ''

'' (TV series) * 2019: The Master Butcher (TV series) * 2020: '' Deutschland 89'' (TV series) * 2020: ''

Persian Lessons ''Persian Lessons'' (german: Persischstunden) is a 2020 Russian-Belarusian war drama film directed by Vadim Perelman. The film was partially inspired by the short story ''Erfindung einer Sprache'' by German writer Wolfgang Kohlhaase. It was sel ...

'' (film) * 2021: ''Ein Hauch von Amerika'' (TV series) * 2021: '' The Four of Us'' * 2023: ''Transatlantic'' (TV Series) * TBA: '' 1000 Zeilen (1000 Lines)'' (film)

Awards

* 2011:

, Award for ''Homevideo'' * 2012: Award for ''Homevideo'' * 2012: New Faces Award for ''Homevideo'' * 2012: Award for ''Homevideo'' * 2014:

in 2013 as best young actor for ' * 2016:

, Best Actor Award for ''

, Tannbach''

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nay, Jonas 1990 births Living people Actors from Lübeck 21st-century German male actors