Joel Basman

Known for ActingBorn 1990-01-23 (age 36)Zürich, Switzerland

Joel Basman (born 23 January 1990) is a Swiss actor. Basman was born in Zurich, Switzerland, to a Swiss Christian mother and an Israeli-Jewish father, both of whom were tailors in the Swiss fashion industry. He grew up in the neighborhood of Aussersihl and was raised bilingual, speaking Swiss-German and Hebrew. He has one older sister who resides in Israel. In 2004 he started his career and played a bold teenager named Zizou for the weekly soap opera Lüthi und Blanc. In 2007 director Tobias Ineichen gave the main part to Joel for his film Jimmie. There he played an autistic boy. In February 2008 he got the prize Shooting Star for his part as a Russian teenager on the film Luftibus, written by director Dominque de Rivaz. In September 2008 Joel received the Schweizer Fernsehpreis (Swiss TV-Prize) in the category film. In October 2008 he got the prize for the best main part from Cinema Tous Ecrans. At the Schauspielhaus Zürich Joel Basman acted 2003 for a youth-theatre project. In 2004 and 2005 he played with students, who were at their final project. He finished his studies at the"European Film Actor School" in October 2008. In 2012 Basman got a part as Bertel in the three-piece TV film Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter (Our mothers, our fathers). He also played Pascal in the Swiss TV-film Ziellos (Aimless). Joel Basman played as Sebastien Leclercq in a game called ‘Late Shift’ in 2016. In 2018, Basman played the lead role in Wolkenbruch's Wondrous Journey Into the Arms of a Shiksa, picked up by Netflix. Source: Article "Joel Basman" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.Read more

Movies & web series

Dawn

Jimmie

Generation War

The Working Man

Land of Mine

Homeland

Clash of Futures (1918-1939)

Papillon

A Hidden Life

Kafka

Lubo

The Shadowers

Thousand Oceans

Once Upon a Time in Indian Country

Ziellos

Chess Story

We Are Young. We Are Strong.

The King's Man

Kursk

Bye Bye Germany

Head Burst

Hanna

Chris the Swiss

Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police

Late Shift

Sennentuntschi: Curse of the Alps

Paula

Dear Thomas

Adventures of a Mathematician

Picco

The Monuments Men

The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch

Stella. A Life.

As We Were Dreaming

The Old Fox

Keep Rollin'

SOKO Wismar

The Colony

Polizeiruf 110

Scene of the Crime

Puppylove

Amnesia

Caged Birds

Happy New Year

German Film Award

Summer Outside

KaDeWe

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