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My Take
Sebastian Koch is exactly the actor I gravitate toward. His turn in The Lives of Others, the 2007 Academy Award winner, is the kind of restrained, intelligent work that sticks with you, and he carried that same gravity into Spielberg's Bridge of Spies and his Homeland role as Otto Düring. Stage, film, television, he moves across all of them without chasing fame. I love performers who let the role do the talking instead of the celebrity machine. Two Bavarian TV Awards on the German side, real international credits abroad, that is a craftsman, not a personality.
Overview
Sebastian Koch is a German television and film actor. He is known for roles in the 2007 Academy Award-winning film The Lives of Others, in Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies, and as Otto Düring in the fifth season of the Showtime series Homeland.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Sebastian Koch
- Name (Japanese)
- セバスチャン・コッホ
- Reading
- せばすちゃん・こっほ
- Born
- May 31, 1962 (age 64)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Gemini / Tiger
- Origin
- Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe Government Region, Germany
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- television actor / actor / film actor / stage actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 2002 Bavarian TV Awards
- 2005 Bavarian TV Awards
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Television actor — see all → · Actor — see all → · More people from Germany →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.