Sebastian Koch

Q: Has Sebastian Koch won any awards?

Yes, Sebastian Koch has received several awards, including the German Film Award for Best Actor. His work has been recognized both nationally and internationally for its depth and impact.

Q: What was Sebastian Koch's first film?

Sebastian Koch's first film was 'The Man Who Was Never Born', released in 1993. This marked the beginning of his film career, leading to numerous roles in both German and international cinema.

Q: What is Sebastian Koch's background?

Sebastian Koch was born in Freiburg, Germany, and trained at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art in Berlin. His theatrical background has played a significant role in shaping his acting skills.

Q: Is Sebastian Koch involved in television?

Yes, Sebastian Koch has appeared in various television series, including the acclaimed show 'The Lives of Others', where he showcased his talent in a different medium and garnered a wider audience.

Q: What is Sebastian Koch's estimated net worth?

Sebastian Koch's estimated net worth is around $5 million. His successful career in film and television has contributed to his financial standing.

Q: What genres does Sebastian Koch commonly act in?

Sebastian Koch commonly acts in drama and thriller genres. His ability to portray intense emotions makes him a fitting choice for complex characters in these types of narratives.

Q: What defines Sebastian Koch's acting style?

Sebastian Koch's acting style is characterized by emotional depth and authenticity. He often brings a nuanced approach to his characters, making them relatable and compelling to audiences.

Known for

A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)

IMDb 5.2 / 10

2013 / Action, Thriller / 98 min

Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, finds himself for the first time on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack...

Name

Sebastian Koch

Height

6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)

Born

31 March 1971, Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Spouses

Katrin Koch (2004–present)

Children

1 child, name not publicly known

Parents

Peter Koch, Gabriele Koch

Estimated Net Worth

$5 million

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2025	Movie Etty part 1 At the age of 27, in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, Etty Hillesum embarks on a spiritual and emotional journey, all chronicled in...	Julius Spier	Not rated
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2022	TV Your Honor An incorruptible judge has spent his career fighting organized crime. However, the tables are turned when his son is guilty...	Michael Jacobi	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2021	Movie 1821 at the Cinema In 1821, in Cinema, he records the cinematic representations of the Revolution from the first decades of the 20th century....	(archive footage)	Not rated
2020	TV Shadowplay In 1946 Berlin, an American cop searches for his missing brother while helping a novice German policewoman fight the violent...	Dr. Werner Gladow "Engelmacher"	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2019	TV The Name of the Rose Northern Italy, 1327. The Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young apprentice Adso of Melk reach an isolated Benedictine...	Baron of Neuenberg	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2018	Movie Never Look Away German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood...	Carl Seeband	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2018	Movie Bel Canto A famous opera singer is held hostage in South America by a guerrilla rebel group after performing at a Japanese...	Messner	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2016	TV Eine(r) von hier	Self	Not rated
2016	Movie Fog in August A Yenish boy is placed in a mental hospital and experiences the Nazi euthanasia program. Aware of what was happening...	Dr. Werner Veithausen	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2016	Movie Take Down Sons and daughters of international billionaires are sent to an boot camp where they are taught basic survival skills in...	Bobby Hartmann	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2016	Movie In Her Name In 1982, André Bamberski learns about the death of his 14 year-old daughter, Kalinka, while she was on vacation with...	Doctor Dieter Krombach	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2015	Movie The Danish Girl When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant...	Warnekros	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2015	Movie Bridge of Spies During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane....	Wolfgang Vogel	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2014	Movie Eine Liebe für den Frieden – Bertha von Suttner und Alfred Nobel Bertha Kinsky works as a governess in the Suttner household and has an affair with Arthur Suttner, the son of...	Alfred Nobel	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2014	Movie The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden Darwin meets Hitchcock in this documentary. Directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have created a parable about the search for...	Heinz Wittmer (voice)	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2014	Movie October November Director Gotz Spielmann follows his acclaimed thriller Revanche with this visually captivating character study, in which a family reunion at...	Andreas	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2013	Movie Bruce Willis: Why the Legend Never Dies An in-depth look at the life and career of Bruce Willis, featuring never-before-seen photos and videos from the Willis family...	Self	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2013	Movie A Good Day to Die Hard Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, finds himself for the first time on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help...	Yuri Komarov	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2012	Movie Suspension of Disbelief Martin is a screenwriter, who finds himself in one of his own plays: A young woman is found dead in...	Martin	TMDB 4.2 / 10
2012	Movie In the Shadow In the former Czechoslovakia, 1950s, police captain Hakl investigates a jewelry robbery. An opened safe deposit leads to a known...	Zenke	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2012	Movie The Weekend Based on a novel by Bernard Schlink (The Reader), The Weekend follows Jens as he leaves prison 18 years after...	Jens Kessler	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2012	Movie God Loves Caviar The true-life, stranger-than-fiction tale of eighteenth-century Greek pirate turned merchant Ioannis Varvakis, who rose from humble beginnings to become the...	Ioannis Varvakis	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2011	Movie Albatross Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair...	Jonathan	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2011	TV Homeland CIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile and unpredictable. With the...	Otto Düring	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2011	TV Camelot With King Uther's sudden death, chaos threatens to engulf Britain. The sorcerer Merlin has visions of a dark future and...	King Uther	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2011	Movie Unknown A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one,...	Professor Leo Bressler	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2011	Movie Manipulation Set in Zurich in the 1950s, a special agent who is near retirement receives a major assignment: Bring down Harry...	Harry Wind	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2009	Movie Sea Wolf A young man is taken aboard a seal-hunting vessel helmed by the cruel captain Wolf Larsen.	Wolf Larsen	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2009	TV Sea Wolf Captain Wolf Larsen, the notorious Sea Wolf who rules the crew of his ship, the Ghost, with an iron fist....	Wolf Larsen	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2009	Movie Effi Briest Following her parents' wishes, spirited seventeen-year-old Effi Briest marries Baron von Innstetten – a former admirer of her mother –...	Geert von Instetten	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2008	Movie In jeder Sekunde Dr. Frick is head of the psychiatric ward of a clinic. He and his wife Anna have an eleven-year-old daughter...	Dr. Hans Frick	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2007	Movie The Shell Seekers Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined...	Cosmo König	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2007	Movie Auf dem Vulkan Moritz and Eva Jung's marriage is in crisis. Moritz is tormented by feelings of guilt, but is unable to talk...	Dr. Moritz Jung	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2007	Movie Rudy: The Return of the Racing Pig Up to now, Nickel (9) and his single dad Thomas have been managing very well together. Then Nickel goes on...	Thomas	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2006	Movie Black Book Israel, 1956: Jewish teacher Rachel Stein rather unexpectedly meets an old friend at the kibbutz. It brings back memories of...	Ludwig Müntze	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2006	Movie The Lives of Others In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler...	Georg Dreyman	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2005	TV Speer & Hitler: The Devil's Architect A reassessment of the role Albert Speer played in the Third Reich. Speer, who was ultimately convicted at the Nuremburg...	Albert Speer	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2004	Movie Deadly Diversion Adrian is a talented and ambitious young actor. On the way to an important casting in Munich - he is...	Philipp	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2004	Movie Princesse Marie The story of Napoleon Bonaparte's grandniece, the famous Princess Marie, her friendship and her work with Sigmund Freud.	Rodolphe Löwenstein	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2004	Movie Operation Valkyrie In 1944, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of the...	Oberst Claus Graf Schenk v. Stauffenberg	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2003	Movie Two Days of Hope Brothers Helmut and Wolfgang Kaminski live on opposite sides of the still porous Iron Curtain: Helmut works as a reporter...	Helmut Kaminski	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2003	Movie Tauerngold Gold rush in the Salzburg mountains: After hearing rumours of new gold discoveries, the penniless Jakob Hirzbacher and his son...	Jakob Hirzbacher	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2003	Movie The Flying Classroom A boy who was once a perpetual outcast finds friends in a new boarding school. United with his new peers,...	Robert 'Nichtraucher' Uthofft	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2002	TV Napoleon A masterful soldier, tactician and statesmen, Napoleon Bonaparte's courage and love for his country sees him rise from an unpaid...	Maréchal Jean Lannes	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2002	Movie Kollaps	Konrad Lange	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2002	Movie Amen. Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped...	Höss	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2001	TV Die Manns - Ein Jahrhundertroman Much has been said and written about the Mann family. However, there has never been a film that brings this...	Klaus Mann	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2001	TV Der Tanz mit dem Teufel - Die Entführung des Richard Oetker When wealthy college student Richard Oetker is kidnapped and held for a hefty ransom, state police officer Georg Kufbach becomes...	Richard Oetker	Not rated
2001	Movie Der Tanz mit dem Teufel - Die Entführung des Richard Oetker When wealthy college student Richard Oetker is kidnapped and held for a hefty ransom, state police officer Georg Kufbach becomes...	Richard Oetker	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2001	Movie The Tunnel Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot...	Matthis Hiller	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2000	Movie Die Rückkehr des schwarzen Buddha According to legend, the Black Buddha is a figure that brings death to those who steal it and wisdom to...	Max / Nick	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2000	TV Abendschau The Berliner Abendschau is the news magazine for Berlin.	Self	TMDB 4.3 / 10
2000	TV Koschwitz	Self	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1999	Movie Gloomy Sunday Budapest in the 1930s. Restaurant owner Laszlo hires pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love...	Obersturmbannführer Eichbaum	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1999	TV German Television Award	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1999	Movie Das Tal der Schatten	von Sviet	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1999	Movie Der Mörder meiner Mutter At the age of six, Anne witnessed the murder of her parents. Twenty years later, the convicted perpetrator Marc Balthasar...	Marc Balthasar	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1999	Movie Die Rache der Carola Waas	Bernd Waas	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1999	Movie Schwarzes Blut	Patrick Schönfeldt	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1999	TV Beckmann Reinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show.	Self	TMDB 4.3 / 10
1998	TV Der letzte Zeuge	Tim Guddenberg	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1998	Movie Der Rosenmörder	Bernd	TMDB 3.3 / 10
1998	TV The Johannes B. Kerner Show	Self	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1997	TV Schimanski	Dirk Vogel	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1997	Movie Woanders scheint nachts die Sonne Vera, a young, attractive shipbuilding engineer, has both feet on the ground. She is independent, energetic and self-reliant and is...	Pit	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1997	TV Leute heute	Self	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1997	TV Dead Pool Docudrama in two parts, based on the abduction of the president of the employer's association of Germany, Hanns Martin Schleyer,...	Andreas Baader	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1997	Movie Ende einer Leidenschaft	Martin Zenker	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1997	Movie Tödlicher Duft	Robert	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1997	Movie Hollister The Berlin star architect Mark Hollister owns a thriving company, but at the moment everything is going wrong. Can Hollister...	Mark Hollister	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1996	Movie Zwei vom gleichen Schlag	Sven Eisner	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1996	TV The Alsatians or the two Mathilde The history of four generations of a family in Alsace between 1870 and 1953. Over this time, the family and...	Wismar-Marbach	TMDB 8.3 / 10
1996	Movie Die Nacht hat 17 Stunden	Dr. Stadler	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1996	Movie The Burning Snail In this grim German drama, a troubled 14-year-old boy's pent-up rage and frustration leads him to involvement with a bad...	Gerd	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1996	Movie Der Mörder und die Hure	Roman	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1996	TV Sperling	Georg Giessen	Not rated
1996	Movie Fähre in den Tod It is a terrible disaster! Due to a series of wrong decisions, the ferry Castor gets caught in a sea...	Clas van Damme	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1996	Movie Ein fast perfekter Seitensprung It all starts when she runs away from the altar in a church in Hamburg. Easygoing Henny Schönberg has qualms...	Martin von Platt	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1995	TV Die Harald Schmidt Show The Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian Harald Schmidt. The...	Self	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1995	Movie Hart to Hart: Two Harts in 3/4 Time This entry in the long-running romance of Jonathan and Jennifer Hart picks up following the death of their beloved friend...	Kurt	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1995	Movie Flirt The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Tokyo). A lover has to choose whether...	Dick	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1995	Movie Blutige Spur The divorced wife of a respected surgeon is involved in a hit-and-run accident and dies. Her husband is suspected, but...	Daniel	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1995	Movie Schrecklicher Verdacht With the help of the young, attractive agent Anna Schilling, secret service chief Vogel wants to get to the top...	Ernst Hoffmann	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1994	TV alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1994	TV Rosa Roth Rosa Roth is a German television series.	Rolf Kage	TMDB 4.8 / 10
1994	TV Alles außer Mord Alles außer Mord was a German crime television series which aired on the TV station ProSieben between 1993 and 1995....	Jo Möller	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1994	TV Ein starkes Team The unlikely police pair Verena Berthold and Otto Garber are part of a special task force investigating organized crime in...	Stefan	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1994	TV Ärzte	Unknown character	TMDB 3.7 / 10
1994	Movie Der Mann mit der Maske A series of rapes causes a stir in a German university town. A special commission led by senior public prosecutor...	Bernhard 'Bernd' Schild	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1994	Movie Freundinnen Sophia is going nuts about her relationship to Peter. One day when she is in the middle of committing suicide...	Marcel	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1993	TV Bella Block Bella Block is a long-running German detective television series starring Hannelore Hoger, first broadcast in 1994 on ZDF. In 2010...	Friedemann Mommsen	TMDB 4.6 / 10
1993	TV Bella Block Bella Block is a long-running German detective television series starring Hannelore Hoger, first broadcast in 1994 on ZDF. In 2010...	Max Klöckner	TMDB 4.6 / 10
1993	Movie Im Himmel hört Dich niemand weinen	Unknown character	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1993	TV Hecht & Haie	Hans Ditsch	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1993	Movie An Impossible Teacher In contrast to his successful brother Ernst (Heino Ferch), Robby (Sebastian Koch) dropped out of teacher training early and ekes...	Robby	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1992	TV Wolffs Revier Wolffs Revier is a German television series.	Stefan Schmidt	TMDB 3.7 / 10
1992	TV Morgenmagazin	Self	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1992	Movie Cosimas Lexikon After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Cosima Richter's East Berlin apartment building is to be renovated. Cosima is furious...	Sven	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1991	TV Boulevard Bio	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1991	Movie Transit In 1941, those who had remained around too long to completely escape the Nazi blitzkrieg had one small, slim chance...	Gerhardt	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1991	TV DAS! Every evening at 6:45 p.m. sharp, a prominent guest takes a seat on the red sofa—and DAS! provides daily updates...	Self	TMDB 4.7 / 10
1991	Movie Der Tod kam als Freund A large chemical company in southern Germany is experiencing strange glitches in its data processing. A hacker has infiltrated the...	Gerhard Selb (Jung)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1989	TV Blauer Panther	Self	Not rated
1988	TV Die Männer vom K3 Die Männer vom K3 is a German television series.	Richard Diestel	Not rated
1988	TV Anwalt Abel Anwalt Abel is a German television film series, broadcast on ZDF between 1988 and 2002. 20 television films were produced,...	Peter Salewsky	Not rated
1988	Movie Der Liebe auf der Spur 8-part youth series on the subject of love and sexuality. The self-contained episodes focus on young people between the ages...	Mücke	Not rated
1987	TV Nachtcafé	Self	TMDB 4.7 / 10
1984	TV Der Fahnder Der Fahnder is a German television krimi series which was aired between 1984 and 2005. In the Netherlands the series...	Frank	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1984	TV Goldene Kamera	Self - Laudatio	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1981	TV A Case For Two Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located...	Dr. Martin Velder	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1981	TV A Case For Two Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located...	Schütz	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1981	TV Wetten, dass..? A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show...	Self	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1979	TV NDR Talk Show	Self	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1977	TV The Old Fox A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.	Herr Pontini	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1977	TV The Old Fox A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.	Hansi Wallner	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1976	TV Kölner Treff	Self	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1974	TV 3 nach 9	Self	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1974	TV Derrick Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between...	Martin Sasse	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1970	TV Scene of the Crime Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on...	Heinz Stolle	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1964	TV Grimme Award Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.	Self	Not rated
1948	TV Bambi The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda...	Self	TMDB 9.0 / 10
TBA	Movie The Lüneburg Variant The story centers around the mysterious death of sixty-eight-year-old Dr. Dieter Frisch, a wealthy industrialist and chess master, living outside...	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie Below the Open The film poetically tells the story of the search for one's own authenticity in young adulthood.	Unknown character	Not rated

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Known for

A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)

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