When people ask me what my favourite place in the world is, I always answer: ‘Underwater, at least 10 metres deep.’ If you have to hold your breath for a long time, you go into a kind of trance, it’s an indescribable feeling. This is why I love freediving.

I grew up by the sea in the north of Tunisia, and it was natural for me to see and hear the sea all the time.

This is linked to the question of my childhood heroes: I was always surrounded by strong women, but my biggest heroine is my grandma. Imagine the coolest grandma ever … My grandma is even cooler! She is truly inspiring! She took me on her sailing boat countless times as a child, she’s over 80 and still sailing!

– Nouri Chamari

© Noureddine Chamari

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Only the best for your birthday, dear Nouri! May the next year of your life be the most beautiful sailing trip you can imagine, may your path lead you to your awesome grandma, underwater in a trance … and with us in front of the camera, in the most exciting roles, where you absolutely belong!!!

>>> Go to Nouri’s profile!

… to my clients, some of whom have accompanied me from the very beginning, for the inspiring, wonderful, beautiful and yes, sometimes challenging collaboration. It is a great gift to walk this path with you, to be able to participate in 40 other lives and to be creative in the closest of exchanges.

(Speaking of which, I know that as I write these lines, a surprise is being prepared by you, I’m looking forward to Christmas like a child!!!)

Big thanks also go out to other companions, my incredible, still growing, great network: to colleagues, producers, directors, cast members, my webmasters, my lawyer, my coach, what would I be without you, and last but not least to my family and to my husband. Thank you for your support, your ear, your heart and your (fighting) spirit.

This gives me the strength and energy, the motivation and desire for at least 10 more years with you 😉

Love you all!
Kerstin

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Foto: © Carl Bruchhäuser

Here you can watch the episode in advance and for a whole year in the media library:
ZDF Mediathek: Solo für Weiss – Tödliche Wahl

Some info about the film …

Director: Gunnar Fuß
Writer: Paul Salisbury
Kalle’s Role: Egon Frandsen

Thanks a lot to Network Movie and ZDF for the production and especially to Lina Behr for the casting!

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> Click here for Kalle’s profile!

Peter Pilegaard

“Halloween – This childhood photo was taken in 1980 – Some years before Halloween became an American event tradition here in Europe as we know it today – some years before my birthday was pimped with pumpkins, spiders and skeletons – and some years before Halloween really owned October 31 and turned me into Birthday Boy with little paper hat on curly head when everybody else was tricking and treating as Freddy Krueger or Chucky 🙂 “ – Peter Pilegaard

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Here is some more information about the project Peter is part of these days:

The Chestnut Man Season 2 / Kastanjemanden 2 (6 episodes)

Role: ANDERS BJERRE, High School Principal
Director: Milad Alami / Roni Ezra
SAM Productions / Netflix
Language: Danish
Genre: Crime / Thriller Series

> Go to Peter’s fantastic showreel with subtitles!

*** Happy birthday, dear Peter! We’re very happy to represent you!

“I didn’t think I had childhood ‚heroes‘, but still in the end I realised I had –  kind of. One of my absolutely biggest ‚heroes‘ and inspirations happens to be the lovely Gena Rowlands, who recently passed away. In my opinion, she was one of the best actors in the world. What she did in every picture frame was so true, so strong, so spellbinding, so touching. So when I got to walk in her shoes by playing Jeannie Rapp in the stage version of ‚faces‘ it was like I came full circle.”
– Hanna Ullerstam

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In fact, I just watched Hanna’s first showreel scene again and thought, everything she so wonderfully says about Gena Rowland is so true about Hanna and her acting, too!

> Watch scene!

*** Happy birthday, dear Hanna! Have a lovely day with lots of love. We’re proud to represent you and are looking forward to new adventures!

Bochum, I come from you! I’m glad to have grown up in the Ruhr area, I always enjoy being there, I love the direct interaction ‘without fuss’ and false tones.

By the way, my grandpa Kuhlenberg was a director and actor in a theatre group of miners, I think it was called ‘Urania’.

And when I was still at primary school, I tried to put on a production of ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ with my neighbours’ children. It was great fun for everyone, but the whole thing failed because nobody wanted to appear naked.

As a child, I improvised scenes with a friend and then showed them to the family for 50 pfennigs. It was always about the madam and the servant. I was always the servant, voluntarily, the madam seemed boring to me. The servant had the opportunity to be funny, to put her foot in her mouth. I liked that. Anyway, I see myself as a comedian, nobody thinks so, because I have a completely different outward appearance. I’m also very shy, but comedians often are.

© K. H. Gschwind 2019

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Dear Hildegard, you have so much love for acting and storytelling – a true servant of our art! 🙂 We wish you all the best for your birthday, are happy to represent you and look forward to making you shine many more times!

> Go to Hildegard’s profile!

In his home country Georgia, he has long been one of the most renowned and requested actors … this year he even appeared on ‘The Masked Singer’ in Georgia and sang and danced so fantastically that the judges thought he must be a newcomer talent!

I personally have been captivated by him on stage at the Grillo Theatre in Essen several times; all the prouder and happier am I now to represent him and bring him more and more to German and international audiences!

One could certainly fill pages with stories and references about Rezo …

Instead, why not jump straight to his profile and get a fresh impression from his CV and his outstanding photos and showreel scenes!
> To Rezo’s profile!

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A warm welcome to you, dear Rezo, many thanks for your trust & here’s to a fantastic collaboration!

Kerstin Neuhaus

© Tamar Gonjilashvili 2024

© Philipp Noack 2022

© Tamar Gonjilashvili 2024

For Marcel’s day of honour, we’re giving you a few role fantasies :

Marcel … alias ‘The Constable’, who is distracted and ensnared by a secret agent, gives up his post in a moment of negligence and thus makes a grand theft possible, but in the end, as the bait, heroically catches the charming villainess.

Marcel … alias ‘The Coach’, who moves from beautiful Cologne to Brandenburg with his children to pursue his wife’s career and threatens to drown there, but then loses his heart to building up a youth football team that creates an unexpected unity among the kids and their parents in this area.

Marcel … alias ‘El Turista’, a big businessman who builds up a Spanish island as a cruise holiday oasis and thus exposes it to destruction, but — when he suffers a sudden private loss — makes an inner U-turn and secretly begins to invest the company’s profits in building up the island and its inhabitants until they solemnly cancel the cruise deal, celebrating El Turista as their hero.

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Dear Marcel, all the best! We are proud to represent you!

> Got to Marcel’s profile!

THE ROSENHEIM COPS – STADLERS STADLFEST

> Watch in the media centre!

Or on 29 October at 19:25 on ZDF!

Stephanie Lexer took on the role of the suspected (and suspicious) ‘Anni Simböck’, the partner of the murder victim.

The film was directed by Werner Siebert.
We would like to thank Gwendolyn Clayton for the casting!

Stephanie also sends her regards and names a few other trades:

Author – Heike Eva Schmidt
Camera – Thomas Wittmann
Editing – Aljo Fazlagic
Music – J. J. Gerndt

Our thanks for the production go to Bavaria Fiction GmbH.

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> Click here for Stephanie’s enchanting profile!

Such a magnificent mixture of colours and yet so homogeneous on the whole … such a firework of looks and expressions and yet so direct and pure throughout! Chapeau, dear Maike, for this wonderful new series of portraits!

Take a look and be inspired:

© Fabian Raabe 2024

© Fabian Raabe 2024

© Fabian Raabe 2024

> Get to Maike’s profile and see all of the pictures!