Kostja Ullmann

Kostja Ullmann born 30 May 1984 is a German actor best known for his leading role in the awardwinning comingofage drama Sommersturm Summer Storm which gained a lot of praise throughout Europe Ullmann was born in Hamburg to a German father and an Indian mother He entered the stage at the age of eleven and performed at Hamburgs Ernst Deutsch Theater and Winterhuder Fährhaus In 1998 he made his TV debut in a minor part in the crime series Alphateam In the following years Ullmann starred in several minor roles in TV series such as Stahlnetz Großstadtrevier and Leipzig Homicide as well as in TV movies such as the drama Albtraum einer Ehe 2001 alongside August Zirner From 1999 to 2000 he was a cast member of the comedy series Zwei Männer am Herd with Wolfgang Fierek and Florian Fitz In 2004 Kostja Ullmann made his movie debut in a leading role in Marco Kreuzpaintners awardwinning film Sommersturm Summer Storm His performance in the romantic TV drama Heimliche Liebe Secret Love about the relationship of a schoolboy and an older woman won Ullmann the GüntherStrackFernsehpreis as Best Actor in 2006 In his second movie Hounded2006 Ullmann stars in a similar role Directed by Angelina Maccarone he plays a young delinquent who engages in an amour fou with his probation officer who is more than 30 years older than he is The film won a Golden Leopard at the 2006 Locarno International Film Festival He acted as Hermann Lake in GermanJapan collaborated movie Baruto no Gakuen Ode an die Freude in 2006