Mišel Matičević

Mišel Matičević
Matičević in 2011
Born	(1970-04-22) 22 April 1970 West Berlin, West Germany
Occupation	Actor

Mišel Matičević (German: [miˈʃɛl maˈtiːtʃɛvɪtʃ], Croatian: [miʃêl matǐːtʃevitɕ]; born 22 April 1970) is a German film, television, and theater actor of Croatian descent.

Early life and education

Matičević was born in West Berlin to Croatian parents who were guest workers in West Germany. Following his parents' divorce, he lived with his mother in Berlin-Spandau. He was initially a trouble maker in childhood and would get in fistfights at school. He refused to join the school's theater group, feeling it was only for kids who were trying to "suck up" to the teachers. However, Matičević saw the 1983 film Danton with Gérard Depardieu and was inspired by Depardieu's performance to become an actor.

He studied acting from 1994 until 1998 at the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg in Potsdam. While there, he performed with the Berliner Ensemble at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin and the Kleist Theater in Frankfurt Oder.

Career

Since 1996, Matičević has acted in several crime series and films for German television and cinema. He was awarded the Best Actor Award at the 2000 Thessaloniki International Film Festival for his performance in Lost Killers (1999). In 2007, he played the role of the German poet and novelist Clemens Brentano in the film Das Gelübde, which depicts Brentano's encounter with the stigmatised nun Anne Catherine Emmerich.

Matičević's first international role was in the TNT miniseries The Company in 2006, a show about the CIA in which he played a fictional Hungarian poet called Arpad Zelk, a leader of the Hungarian uprising in 1956.

Personal life

Since 2014, Matičević has been an ambassador for Deutschlandstiftung Integration (Germany Integration Foundation), which promotes and celebrates ethnic diversity in Germany, to support the children of guest workers. He has said: "Guest worker children have always existed and will always exist. I deliberately don't say migrants, but guest worker children, because I am also a guest worker child and have learned so much. I just do not like the term migrant. And I'm glad to be able to pass on some of my knowledge and experience."

Selected filmography

Film

List of film appearances, with year, title, and role shown

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Lost Killers	Branco
2008	A Year Ago in Winter	Aldo
2009	Effi Briest	Major Crampas
2010	In the Shadows	Trojan
2011	Kokowääh	Rob Kaufmann
2012	My Beautiful Country	Ramiz
2014	The King's Surrender	Mendes
2020	Exile
2024	Scorched Earth	Trojan	World premiere at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival

Television

List of television appearances, with year, title, and role shown

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Tatort	Carlo	1 episode
	Wolffs Revier
1999	Schwarz greift ein
2000–2001	Die Cleveren		2 episodes
2001	HeliCops – Einsatz über Berlin
2002	Das Duo	Benno Polenz	2 episodes
2003	Doppelter Einsatz
	Inspector Rex
	Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei
2004	Leipzig Homicide
2005	Mit Herz und Handschellen
	K3 – Kripo Hamburg
	Abschnitt 40
2007	Tatort	Milan Popov	1 episode
	The Company	Arpad Zelk
2010	Im Angesicht des Verbrechens	Misha
2011	Tatort	Dr. Christoph Rubner	1 episode
	Polizeiruf 110	Ole Mahler, prosecutor	1 episode
2012	Fast Forward
2013	Tatort	Ante Mladec, valet	1 episode
2013–2014	Die Chefin		2 episodes
2014	Der letzte Bulle
2015	Schuld nach Ferdinand von Schirach
2015/2017	Tatort	Simic/Roman Eggers	2 episodes
2017	Babylon Berlin	Edgar Kasabian
2018	Tatort	Nenad Ljubic/Nikola/Mike Liebknecht	2 episodes
	Dogs of Berlin	Tomo Kovac
2021	The Billion Dollar Code	Juri Müller	4 episodes

External links

• Mišel Matičević at IMDb