Samuel Schneider

Samuel Schneider born April 7 1995 in Berlin is a German actor Samuel Schneider grew up in the Berlin district of Wedding His German mother was active in the Berlin squatters scene in 1983 while his father hails from Turkey His artistic career began at a young age From 2005 to 2007 he performed at the Berliner Ensemble in William Shakespeares The Winters Tale directed by Robert Wilson At the age of ten he began taking acting lessons at the Special Coaching Actors Studio in Berlin and starting in 2008 he took on his first film roles Beginning in 2018 Schneider studied acting for a year and a half at the Berlin University of the Arts Universität der Künste Berlin In 2023 he completed his Masters degree in Theater and Performance at the Zurich University of the Arts Zürcher Hochschule der Künste As part of his studies he directed his first stage play titled Faust3000 Guest engagements led him to various theaters including the Volksbühne Berlin in 2016 where he performed alongside Kathrin Angerer in I love you but Ive chosen Entdramatisierung directed by René Pollesch In 2018 he appeared on stage at the Berliner Ensemble in Simon Stones Eine Griechische Trilogie A Greek Trilogy performing alongside Martin Wuttke Schneider landed his first leading role in a feature film in 2010 in Boxhagener Platz based on the novel by Torsten Schulz and directed by Matti Geschonneck In 2013 he took on a lead role alongside Ulrich Tukur in Exit Marrakech directed by Caroline Link for this performance he received the New Faces Award in 2014 for Best German Newcomer Actor Further leading roles followed in films such as Agonie by David Clay Diaz Die Puppenspieler based on the novel by Tanja Kinkel Asphaltgorillas by Detlev Buck and Hello Again Ein Tag für immer by Maggie Peren In 2022 Schneider appeared in Doris Dörries Freibad as well as in the international French series Toutes Ces Choses Quon Ne Sest Pas Dites or All Those Things We Never Saidbased on the novel by Marc Levyalongside Jean Reno and Alexandra Maria Lara In the years that followed he took on lead roles in Sylvie Michels More Than Strangers and Kida Khodr Ramadans Haltlos Most recently he was seen in Karoline Herfurths boxoffice hit Wunderschön Samuel Schneider lives in Berlin