Philippe Reinhardt

Philippe Reinhardt (born 14 May 1981 in Zurich) is a Swiss actor.

Early life

Philippe Reinhardt grew up in Zurich, Switzerland. After attending acting classes in Munich, Hamburg and Zurich, he got his first stage-roles at German and Swiss theatres.

Career

His first roles were for German television-series, but quickly followed by movie offers such as the German comedy 1½ Knights – In Search of the Ravishing Princess Herzelinde along star Til Schweiger. The same year he also starred in the Swiss film Champions. This was followed by a role in the disaster movie Faktor 8 for German network ProSieben. By 2012 he also started being cast in international productions, most notably Andrey Malyukov's historical World War II soccer-drama Match and Fedor Bondarchuk's 3D-production Stalingrad, which was Russia's official entry for the foreign-language Oscars in 2013.

He gained notoriety mainly through his starring role in "The Groom", the most successful Russian film 2016 in Russia with 3 million moviegoers and more than 20 million viewers of the free-TV premiere.

In 2018 he played in the Russian war drama film Sobibor that is based on the real story that happened in 1943 in the Sobibor death camp in German-occupied Poland. The film was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards.

Personal life

Philippe Reinhardt lives in Berlin and Zurich.