Actor Matthias Schwighefer: biography, filmography, interesting facts

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Hollywood stars seem to live in God's bosom. It is worth starring in one American film, and the whole world already knows you, even if your talent and abilities are scarce. But if you make your way to the top of European cinema, then you have a very hard time. We are somewhat familiar with French and Italian artists, but know almost nothing about German ones. There are real talents among them, and one of them is Matthias Schwigheffer.

Childhood and the search for a calling

Matthias Schwigheffer was born on March 11, 1981 in the city of Anklam, the federal state of Mecklenburg. It is worth emphasizing right away that the future artist was born into a theatrical family - almost all of his ancestors worked on stage, on television, were directors or screenwriters. But despite this, for a long time Mattias doubted. He looked for himself in sports, played music, attended various technical courses. As a result, on the advice of his parents, he enteredto the acting school named after Ernst Bush, but, alas, he left it a year later. Fortunately, the lack of a theatrical education did not become an obstacle to the creative path of Matthias Schwighefer. He was helped by family ties and his own talent. So, from the beginning of the 90s, he begins to appear on the screens, and by the Millennium he becomes a real celebrity.

Working in the 90s

At the dawn of the last decade of the twentieth century, Matthias Schwigheffer was still a child, but this did not stop him from acting in several films and even playing a role in the TV series. In 1994, the actor appeared in the series "Doctors", which was very popular in Germany, but did not reach Russia. Then in 1997, Mattias starred in the TV movie "Out of Skin", but his role there was episodic. A year later, he gets the main role in the film "The Secret of the Ancient Crypt", and after that the artist becomes very popular in his homeland. In the same 1998, Schwighefer starred in a number of films that were shown in Germany and other European countries, but did not reach the CIS and were not even translated into Russian.

At the dawn of the 2000s

The films with Matthias Schwighefer, which were shot between 2000 and 2010, are hard to count on the fingers. Many of them have already become available to the domestic audience, and some have even become real hits in our country. Among the most popular works of the actor are the following: "Kiss Me, Frosch", "Headbreak", "Sharks of the Feather", "Blue-Eyed Polly", "Bluemonkey", "Handsome", "Red Baron", "Operation Valkyrie", "Handsome 2" and "Friendship!". After such high-profile premieres, photos of Matthias Schweighefer scattered through magazines, newspapers and Internet sites, and critics started talking about him, and fans, moreover, the actor became recognizable in Russia and America.

Latest work

Over the past decade, the filmography of Matthias Schwighefer has replenished with several dozen more paintings. It is noteworthy that the part-time actor also becomes a director, and also writes scripts for many German films. In parallel, he voices cartoons - both those that are intended only for children in Germany, and widely known throughout the world, for example, "Robinson Crusoe: a very inhabited island." Among the films in which the actor and director starred recently, we will name the following: "I'm normally super good", "Frau Ella", "Nanny", "The Coolest Day", as well as the series "Wanted" and "The Best Show in the world".

Filmography

Now let's summarize. In what films did Matthias Schwighefer manage to star in all his years of activity? In fact, there are at least 100 of them, so we decided to focus on those that turned out to be the most successful and those that you can watch with a Russian translation.

• Doctors - 1994.
• Out of Your Skin - 1997.
• Secrets of the old crypt - 1998.
• Friends -2000.
• Kiss Me Frosch - 2000.
• Headbreak - 2001.
• Friends of Friends - 2002.
• Shark Pen - 2003.
• Cold Spring - 2004.
• Schiller - 2005.
• Blue-eyed Polly - 2005.
• Blue Monkey - 2006.
• Handsome - 2007.
• Red Baron - 2008.
• Operation Valkyrie - 2008.
• Ghost Express - 2009.
• Handsome 2 - 2009.
• Friendship! - 2010.
• I'm ok super good - 2012.
• Frau Ella - 2013.
• Bibi and Tina - 2014.
• Nanny - 2015.
• The coolest day of 2016.
• Hot Dog - 2018.

Features of acting

Being a hereditary artist, Matthias Schwighefer has an incredible and very rare talent - he gets used to any character perfectly. They noticed this ability for him since childhood - as a teenager, he could play an adult, and it did not look funny. Until now, all the roles that the artist has played have been diverse, diverse. He succeeds in villains, and good people, and nice fellows. Many connoisseurs of Schweighefer's work note that it is difficult for them to immediately say for what role they remember the actor or in what role he was best. He is talented and good in every way.

Private life

Since Matthias is not a Hollywood actor, he does not have a crowd of fans. There are only connoisseurs of creativity and fans who adore him for his abilityreincarnate and be forever young. Therefore, it makes no sense to "shine" your personal life and make PR out of it. However, the actor does not hide some facts. Between 2004 and 2012, Mattias was in a relationship with a girl named Ani Schromm. In 2009, they had a daughter, who was named Greta. In 2012, the couple broke up, but a year later the relationship resumed, and the lovers got married. Now Matthias Schwighefer and his wife live in Berlin and are already raising two children - in 2014 they had a son, Valentin.

Interesting facts

• Matthias plays on stage. He is a member of the Hebbel theater company in Berlin.
• Behind the back of the actor there are many awards, including the German TV Award, Golden Camera, Baden-Baden TV Festival Award, DIVA and many others.
• The artist knows well not only his native language, but also English and French.
• He enjoys writing poems, inspired by the works of the author Max Frisch.
• Can play piano and violin.
• She loves swimming and running.
• Matthias Schwigheffer has aerophobia, but that didn't stop him from acting as a pilot in The Red Baron.