Tom Schilling

Tom Schilling

Schilling in Vienna, 2008
Born (1982-02-10) 10 February 1982
East Berlin, East Germany
Nationality German
Occupation Actor
Years active 1996–present
Partner(s) Annie Mosebach
Children 2

Tom Schilling (/ˈʃɪliŋ/; born 10 February 1982)[1] is a German television and film actor.

Life and acting career

Schilling grew up in the formerly East German borough of Berlin Mitte. He was discovered at the age of 12 by stage director Thomas Heise, and cast in the stage play Im Schlagschatten des Mondes (Under the shadow of the moon) at the Berliner Ensemble theatre company, which he stayed with for the next four years to play in other productions as well. Acting jobs earned him enough money to move out of his parents' place when he was 18 and still in school.[2] He left school with Abitur certificate.

Schilling's screen acting debut was in 1996, when he, aged 14, appeared in the Sat.1 TV series ‘Hallo, Onkel Doc!’ He was later cast in the theatrical film Schlaraffenland (1999) where he played alongside Franka Potente, Daniel Brühl and Heiner Lauterbach, but the breakthrough for him came with his performance in Crazy (2000, directed by Hans-Christian Schmid), for which he received the Talented Young Actor Award of the Bayerischer Filmpreis.

In the critically well-received 2004 film Before the Fall (German title: Napola – Elite für den Führer, directed by Dennis Gansel) he played alongside Max Riemelt a young and fragile student at a Nazi elite school (Napola). In 2006, he received a scholarship for the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York, where he studied for half a year. In the same year, he became a father to a son. Schilling was later given the role of the young Adolf Hitler in Urs Odermatt's 2009 film Mein Kampf (the UK DVD release is marketed as Dawn of Evil: Rise of the Reich), co-starring Götz George.[3]

He originally wanted to become a painter and study art after school. In a 2008 interview he said he was not much of an extrovert, and that, to him, having to deliver oneself up on a day-to-day basis was a major disadvantage of the acting profession.[4]

In the early summer of 2014 his second child was born - the first child for Schilling and his partner, the assistant director Annie Mosebach.[5]

Filmography

Audio plays

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Tom Schilling at the Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 4 March 2009
  2. ↑ Patrick, Bauer (16 August 2007). "Ich jammer nicht. Interview". Neon (magazine). Retrieved 22 September 2012.
  3. ↑ "Mein Kampf adaption – Making a Farce of Hitler as a Young Man". Der Spiegel Online. 3 March 2011. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
  4. ↑ Goltz, Tobias (12 May 2008). "Tom Schilling. Die Presse sucht sich jede Woche einen neuen Shootingstar". Planet Interview. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
  5. ↑ "Berlin-Film mit Tom Schilling kommt in US-Kinos. Interview". Kurier.at. 15 June 2014. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
  6. ↑ Kastelan, Karsten (16 September 2012). ""Oh Boy" Scores Three for Three at Oldenburg Film Fest". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
  7. ↑ ""Oh Boy" gewinnt beim Bayerischen Filmpreis". Zeit Online. 18 January 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2013.

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