Benno Fürmann

Fürmann fascinates me as a genuine shape-shifter. The Kreuzberg-born German actor carried the brutal real-life mountaineering drama The North Face as Toni Kurz, work that demands physical commitment most stars avoid, yet he is also the German voice of Puss in Boots in Shrek. Tragedy and comedy, body and voice, he moves between them without fuss. Born in 1972, he reads to me as the kind of performer who would rather disappear into the role than into fame. I respect that range enormously, and honestly I want to hear his Puss in Boots; charm in a dubbing booth is its own underrated skill.

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Name (English)

Benno Fürmann

Name (Japanese)

ベンノ・フユルマン

Reading

べんの・ふゆるまん

Born

January 17, 1972 (age 54)

Origin

Kreuzberg, Germany

Occupation

voice actor / film actor / television actor / speaker / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rat

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benno%20F%C3%BCrmann
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%8E%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%A6%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60687

Tags

• voice actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.