Kostja Ullmann is a German film and television actress born in Hamburg on 30 May 1984. His father is German and his mother is of Indian origin. He has appeared in a wide range of films, from youth films to period adaptations, and has become one of the well-known young faces of German cinema, especially since the mid-2000s.
Early years and debut
He met the stage at the age of eleven; It played for the first time at the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater in Hamburg. In the late 1990s, he appeared in front of the camera with small roles in television series such as Alphateam, Groรstadtrevier and SOKO Leipzig, and also appeared regularly in the TV series Zwei Mรคnner am Herd.
He made his real debut in 2004. Sommersturm, directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner and telling the story of a young person's process of discovering his own identity, was his first movie and he starred as Achim. The film received widespread attention in Europe. In 2006, Verfolgt, in which he starred, won the Golden Leopard award at the Locarno Film Festival.
In the same year, he was awarded the Gรผnter-Strack Television Award for his performance in the television movie Heimliche Liebe.
Next period
It reached wider audiences in the 2010s. He appeared in the youth fantasy Rubinrot (2013) and its sequels Saphirblau and Smaragdgrรผn. In 2014, he starred in the romantic comedy Coming In. In 2017's Mein Blind Date mit dem Leben, he played a young man who lost most of his vision and did not give up on pursuing his dreams.
Ullmann continued to work regularly on television, appearing in guest roles in long-running German crime series such as Tatort and Der Staatsanwalt. His career, which started as a child actor, followed a steady path that led to leading roles in adulthood.
