Moritz Bleibtreu

Moritz Bleibtreu's parents, Monica Bleibtreu, (1944-2009) and, Hans Brenner, (1938 - 1998) were both actors.

Renato Attilio Bleibtreu is Moritz's grandfather and is a well-known writer.

Many of his ancestors were actors also, such as his great-grandmother Maximiliane Bleibtreu, her sister Hedwig Bleibtreu and their parents Amalie and Sigmund Bleibtreu.

Actress Cilli Drexel is the half-sister of Moritz Bleibtreu.

The Bleibtreustrasse, a street in Berlin, was originally named after Georg Bleibtreu who was a battle painter and a distant ancestor of Moritz.

Moritz as a child was already in the spotlight when he starred in Neues aus Uhlenbusch (News From Uhlenbusch). The children series was written by Rainer Boldt, Monica Bleibtreu, and Hans Peter Korff.

Monica and Hans were married at the time this series was produced.

Moritz Bleibtreu was born in 1971 and was raised in the St. Georg district of Hamburg.

Bleibtreu's career continued to grow as he got a role in Boldt's, I Had a Dream, and then in 1986 in, With My Hot Tears, a television series that he acted in with his mother.

Moritz Bleibtreu grew up attending the Jahnschule, which is now known as the Ida-Ehre-School in Hamburg-Harvestehude.

He obtained his secondary school certificate in the eleventh grade while attending the school.

He then began to not attend the school anymore after obtaining his certificate.

Bleibtreu then moved to Paris to work as an Au-Pair for almost two years.

While working this job, he was also able to learn French.

He then moved to Italy afterwards for a year and then on to New York.

In New York, he attended acting school.

He was not offered a job in his audition at the Actors Studio, but he was able to get on as a factotum, which let him observe the actors' rehearsals.

Moritz Bleibtreu began his television acting career in 1993 with a role in the series Schulz & Schulz. Bleibtreu took a role in The Little Innocent (1994) as a gay bartender named Thorsten who lives in the Hamburg prostitute scene.

In the show, he helps a 16-year-old boy with a predicament with his father.

They seek to prove his father's innocence after he is convicted of killing a young man who resided in the red-light district in Hamburg.

Bleibtreu also starred in a romantic comedy called Talk of the Town (1995).

He played the role of Karl, a homosexual naive carpenter.

Moritz Johann Bleibtreu ( is a German film actor, voice actor, and film director. He has been a successful actor in many movies such as Run Lola Run, Das Experiment, The Baader Meinhof Complex, and Elementary Particles. His role in Knockin' on Heaven's Door was the one that set off his career back in 1997.

In 1998, Moritz began to step away from acting in T.V. series and began to work on more movies.

He said, "cinema is an active form of watching, while television is a passive one".

Bleibtreu has worked in many well-known films such as Run Lola Run, Knockin' on Heaven's Door, The Baader Meinhof Complex, and The Experiment.

He also worked on many other films such as Solino, im Juli, Chiko, and Soul Kitchen in which he worked with filmmaker Fatih Akin.

Moritz won the German Film Award for best leading actor in the films im Juli and The Experiment.

In 2003, he was a member of the jury at the 25th Moscow International Film Festival.

Bleibtreu also worked in many films as a voice actor.

In 2004 and 2006, he was a voice actor in the film Brother Bear and Brother Bear 2 which were both produced by Walt Disney Studios.

Bleibtreu, back in 2004, played a role in the Danish film Der Fakir and then in 2016 in Johannes Naber's film adaptation of Wilhelm Hauff's Heart of Stone.

He was also awarded the Silver Bear for Best Actor in 2006 for his role in Elementary Particles directed by Oskar Roehler.

He also enjoys taking smaller supporting roles in international co-productions.

One movie that he worked in was Sam Barbarski's Vijay and I.

Moritz Bleibtreu had a son in November 2008 with his now ex-wife Annika in Reinbek, Germany.

He married Saskia de Tschaschell in Reinbek at the Maria-Magdelenen Church on July 21, 2022.

At the age of 21 and after 4 years of studying abroad, Bleibtreu continued his career by working at the Thalia Theater and the Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, Germany. After this, he began getting smaller roles in television series.

Finally, in February 2015, he stepped back into the TV production spotlight after 17 years.

He started acting in the ZDF crime series called Schuld.