Philippe Reinhardt (born 14 May 1981) is a Swiss actor.
Early life Philippe Reinhardt was born on 14 May 1981 in Zürich and grew up in Zürich. After attending acting classes in Munich, Hamburg and Zürich, he got his first stage-roles at German and Swiss theatres.
Career His first roles were for German television-series, but quickly followed by movie offers such as the German comedy 1½ Knights – In Search of the Ravishing Princess Herzelinde along star Til Schweiger. The same year he also starred in the Swiss film Champions. This was followed by a role in the disaster movie for German network ProSieben. He also got the lead role in the short film Der Zauberregen alongside German actress Alexandra Kamp. In Bern's Theater at the Effingerstrasse he was on stage for the play Sein oder Nichtsein. In 2010 he starred in the feature film Simplify your soul for the screenwriter and director Markus Boestfleisch. By 2012 he also started being cast in international productions, most notably Andrey Malyukov's historical World War II soccer-drama Match and Fedor Bondarchuk's 3D-production Stalingrad, which was Russia's official entry for the foreign-language Oscars in 2013.
He gained notoriety mainly through his starring role in The Groom, the most successful Russian film 2016 in Russia with 3 million moviegoers and more than 20 million viewers of the free-TV premiere.
In 2018 he played in the Russian war drama film Sobibor that is based on the real story that happened in 1943 in the Sobibor death camp in German-occupied Poland. The film was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards.
In 2021, Philippe Reinhardt starred in the 6th film of the ARD series Die Diplomatin, entitled Mord in St. Petersburg, in the role of a Russian spy.
Personal life Philippe Reinhardt lives in Berlin and Zürich.
Partial filmography
2004: Querschläger 2004: The Love I Stole (Short) - Steffi 2005: Der siebte Gang 2005: Jean-Luc 2005: Hey Chef 2007: - Norman 2007: Miss Luzifer (Short) - Teufelchen 2007-2008: SOKO 5113 (TV Series) - Verhandlungsführer / Gärtner 2007: Unter meinem Bett 2008: Der Schatten des Geldes 2008: Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei (TV Series) - Türsteher (uncredited) 2008: 1½ Knights – In Search of the Ravishing Princess Herzelinde - Kettenhund 2009: (TV Movie) - Moritz 2009: Champions - Journalist 2010: The quartering act (Short) - Thomas 2010: Der Zauberregen (Short) - Max 2010: Die Mike-Lenn-Vision 2011: Da kommt Kalle (TV Series) - Sigmar Behrens 2012: Nachtexpress - Hoger 2012: Match - Max 2012: Overbooked – Leuchtturm, Leichen & Pasteten - Harald Bloch 2012: Выжить после 2013: Stalingrad - Gotfrid 2014: The Perfect Husband - Hans 2014: Simplify your soul - Karl Rothstein 2016: Ya uchitel - Kuns 2016: Erwartungen - Torsten 2016: Seitenwechsel - Mann in der Bar 2016: The Groom - Helmut 2017: Strassenkaiser - Adrian 2018: Sobibor - Siegfried Greitschus 2019: Conquest - Zims 2019: Love Made Easy - Erik 2019-2022: True North - Lüthi 2020: Bail 2020–2022: Contamin 2021: The Match - Henckel 2021: Die Diplomatin – Mord in St. Petersburg 2022: Diversant
External links
Website for Philippe Reinhardt