Louis Hofmann (born 3 June 1997 in Bergisch Gladbach) is a German actor. International audiences know him best for his role as Jonas Kahnwald in the Netflix series Dark.
From child acting to awards
He was born in North Rhine-Westphalia, grew up in Cologne and began his screen experience as a child. Her first movie leading role was Tom Sawyer, directed by Hermine Huntgeburth in 2011; This role brought him the New Faces award for best new actor in 2012.
In 2015, he was chosen as the best young actor at the Bavarian Film Award for his performance in Freistatt, directed by Marc Brummund. In the Danish-German co-production Land of Mine, shot the same year, he played a young German prisoner forced to clear mines at the end of World War II, and won the best supporting actor award at Denmark's Bodil Awards.
He then took on the leading role in Die Mitte der Welt; He was honored with the title of Shooting Star, given to the rising faces of Europe, at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival.
Dark and international projects
Dark, which was broadcast in 2017 and lasted three seasons, reached a wide audience with its fiction revolving around time travel and made Hofmann known outside Germany. In the following years, he starred in international films such as Red Sparrow; In 2024, he played Ulrich Haussmann in the TV series Masters of the Air and appeared as Max Yoder in an episode of Ripley.
Hofmann continues his career alternating between German and international productions.
