Mišel Matičević

Mišel Matičević (born 1970) is a Croatian-German film, television and theater actor. He is frequently cast as "tough guy" roles.[1][2]

Early life and education

Matičević was born in West Berlin to Croatian parents who were guest workers in West Germany.[3] Following his parents' divorce, he lived with his mother in Berlin-Spandau. He was initially a trouble maker in childhood and would get in fist fights 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 perfromance to become an actor.[2]

He studied acting 1994 to 1998 at the prestigious Academy for Film and Television (Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen) or Filmuniversität Babelsberg in Potsdam. While studying, he performed with the Berliner Ensemble at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin and the Kleist Theater in Frankfurt Oder.[2]

Career

Since 1996, Matičević has acted in several crime series and films for the German TV and cinema. He was awarded the Best Actor Award at the 2000 Thessaloniki International Film Festival for his performance in Lost Killers (1999).[2]

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.

He was the synchronous voice of Marton Csokas (Yorgi) in the German version of xXx - Triple X in 2002.

His first international role was in the TNT miniseries The Company (2006), a series 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 the ambassador of Deutschlandstiftung Integration (Germany Integration Foundation), which promotes and celebrates ethnic diversity in Germany, to support the children of guest workers. He says, "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."[4]

Selected filmography

  • Müde Weggefährten (1996)
  • Gierig (1997)
  • Wege in die Nacht (1998)
  • Tatort – Berliner Weiße (1998)
  • Lost Killers (2000)
  • Operation Rubikon (2002)
  • Detective Lovelorn und die Rache des Pharao (2002)
  • Die Eltern der Braut (2003)
  • Hotte im Paradies (2003)
  • Sehnsucht (2004)
  • Kalter Frühling (2004)
  • Heimkehr (2004)
  • Das Zimmermädchen und der Millionär (2004)
  • Emilia – Die zweite Chance (2005)
  • Emilia – Familienbande (2005)
  • Die Luftbrücke – Nur der Himmel war frei (2005)
  • K3 – Kripo Hamburg: Fieber (2005)
  • Eine Stadt wird erpresst (2006)
  • Dornröschen erwacht (2006)
  • Blackout – Die Erinnerung ist tödlich TV miniseries (2006)
  • The Company TV miniseries (2007)
  • Tatort – Bienzle und die große Liebe (2007)
  • Im Winter ein Jahr (2007)
  • Die dunkle Seite (2007)
  • Das Gelübde (2007)
  • Zodiak – Der Horoskopmörder TV miniseries (2007)
  • Die Todesautomatik (2007)
  • A Year Ago in Winter (2008)
  • Effi Briest (2009)
  • In the Shadows (2010)
  • Kokowääh (2011)
  • My Beautiful Country (2012)
  • The King's Surrender (2014)
  • Babylon Berlin (2017)

References

  1. ↑ "Misel Maticevic: Bei "Bambi" hat er geweint". GALA (in German). 11 February 2009. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Our guest on 05.04.2009 Mišel Matičević, Actor" (in German). Deutsche Welle. 5 April 2009. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  3. ↑ "So leidenschaftlich fiebert er mit Kroatien". Stern (in German). 13 July 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  4. ↑ "„Joggen ist für mich eine Art Meditation"". FOCUS Online (in German). 17 June 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
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