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Dirk Martens is an actor from Germany who started his career on the theater stage, but achieved the greatest success and recognition in television series. He continues to actively act in diverse film projects.
Biography of Dirk Martens
The future theater and film actor was born on 1964-02-07 in the German city of Mulheim an der Ruhr. Already at an early age, he wanted to become an actor, so he decided to study acting at theater schools in Berlin and Düsseldorf.
Besides movies, he has performed in theaters in Düsseldorf, Zurich, Munich and Hamburg. In parallel, he began to build a career in the film industry.
The first attempts to get into the cinema began in the 80s of the twentieth century, but the real popularity came to him in the early 90s, when he began to actively act in television series.
Dirk Martens Movies
Today, the actor's professional piggy bank has 103 works in various projects, mainly serials and feature films. He continues to act actively to this day. In 2018 alone, he played 4 roles in different projects.
The most outstanding films with his participation are consideredthe 2002 science fiction action movie Equilibrium, where he played the role of Gate Garth, and the 2001 American war drama Conspiracy, which tells about World War II.
You can also highlight the following works: "Til Ulenspiegel", "Erika and Otto" and "No one but you". The actor "specializes" in roles in military and historical dramas, in roles in crime television series.
It was thanks to TV series that he gained worldwide fame. The most outstanding multi-series projects starring Dirk Martens are the German crime thriller "Special Squad Cobra", the Russian-Ukrainian military series "The Ballad of the Bomber" and the legendary Austrian-German television series "Commissar Rex".
Interesting facts
Dirk Martens actively starred in Russian films and TV series. For example, in his track record there are such Russian works: the 2012 sports drama "Match" with Sergei Bezrukov in the title role, the military film about the Second World War "White Tiger" and Konstantin Khabensky's debut work "Sobibor", released in 2018. Dirk Martens played Beckman in the film.
In 2018, he was invited to one of the key roles in the military series "Lost" under the direction of Andrei Malyukov. His colleagues on the set are M. Porechenkov and V. Panfilova.
Few people know, but the actor played the role of Tommy inspin-off series of "Commissioner Rex" called "Stockinger". He appeared on television in 1996-1997. As the name implies, the series tells the story of one of the main characters of the first season of "Commissioner Rex" partner Richard Moser named Ernst Stockinger.
Conclusion
Dirk Martens is one of the most outstanding German actors who managed to build a successful career not only in his homeland, but also abroad. He often appears in American and Russian films. The harsh, brutal appearance and personal interest are pushing him to appear mainly in military and crime dramas.
During his career he has played a huge number of roles, but he does not intend to stop there. Dirk Martens continues to actively act in diverse projects, embodying characters with difficult destinies and characters on the screen, and he can equally well perform both an inveterate villain and a positive hero with a difficult fate. Thanks to his talent and natural charisma, he managed to fall in love with a large number of film fans, so his fan base is quite large and continues to grow. Surprisingly, in Russia, his popularity is no less, and perhaps even more, than in his native Germany.
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