Jonathan Elias Weiske

Jonathan-Elias Weiske (born in Berlin on 4 February 1996) is a German film and television actor and voice actor.

Jonathan was born in Berlin son of Oliver Betke and Claudia Weiske, an artistic family, with his father being a film/television/theatre actor who had also appeared in musicals in addition to working also a synchronspeecher (voice over) and a photographer.

Jonathan's mother also worked as an actress who had appeared amongst others in Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten in the role Elke Opitz.

She had also appeared in a number of theater productions in Berlin (in Theater am Kurfürstendamm), Dresden and in Hamburg.

Jonathan started as a child actor at age five.

He had his screen debut appearing in the series Herzschlag-Die Retterand two years later in the short film Jesus Christ, directed by U. Preatel.

He became well-known through the series Fünf Sterne that ran from 2005 to 2008 on ZDF, where he starting as a 9-year old, he played the character Martin Amann, who after his family faces financial difficulties, moves to Berlin to live with his mother to begin a new live.

In 2009, he played in the made-for-TV film Sind denn alle Männer Schweine? broadcast on Sat.1.

He plays the role of Niklas Nielsen in the film.

Other film roles included Mandy will ans Meer for the channel ZDF and Bitte nicht stören for arte.

He also made voice overs for the character Tom in the children's series D.I.E. Detektive im Einsatz directed by N. Spier for the channel Super RTL in addition to popular American TV series like "NCIS: Los Angeles" and "Grey's Anatomy".

Jonathan Elias Weiske voiced over the character "Frodo" for The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest video game (in German Die Abenteuer von Aragorn)