Kostja Ullmann

Known for ActingBorn 1984-05-30 (age 42)Hamburg, Germany

Kostja Ullmann (born 30 May 1984) is a German actor, best known for his leading role in the award-winning coming-of-age 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 Hamburg's 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 Kreuzpaintner's award-winning 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 Günther-Strack-Fernsehpreis as Best Actor in 2006. In his second movie, Hounded(2006), 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 German-Japan collaborated movie Baruto no Gakuen (Ode an die Freude) in 2006.Read more

Movies & web series

Der Elefant: Mord verjährt nie

Tietjen und Bommes

Auris - Die Frequenz des Todes

Die große Maus-Show

My Blind Date with Life

Das Gipfeltreffen

Neo Magazin Royale

Donna Leon

Sapphire Blue

Stahlnetz

Emerald Green

Ruby Red

World Without End

Albtraum einer Ehe

Single By Contract

Suddenly Love

Zwei Männer am Herd

Beat

The Peppercorns

Summer Storm

Where's Wanda?

Die Tote ohne Alibi

Familie XXL

Paradise

Coming In

Joko & Klaas gegen ProSieben

Bibi & Tina: Girls vs. Boys

Miss Sophie - Same Procedure as Every Year

A Most Wanted Man

My Best Friend, His Girlfriend and Me

Kölner Treff

SOKO Köln

NDR Talk Show

The Hunt for Troy

Secret Love: The Schoolboy and the Mailwoman

The Guardians

Sechs auf einen Streich – Die Märchenshow im Ersten

The Air Rescue Team

The Wild Chicks and Life

Der verlorene Sohn

The Ode to Joy

Sources of Life

Das Duo

Westwall

Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP

Gags - Comedy Deluxe

Lucy Goes Gangsta

Die Heimsuchung