Jim Boeven

Boeven was born in Menden (Sauerland), Germany. He studied acting from 1991-1993 at UCLA and the Actors Center in Los Angeles, and then at the Hollywood Acting Workshop in Cologne with Cheryl Franklin.

Jim Boeven (r) at the Canyons premiere with Paul Schrader

He began his career in Cologne, and quickly became a series regular in the series Alle Lieben Julia, Jede Menge Leben and Jets – Leben am Limit. He has had a prolific European TV career, appearing in 450 episodes that have aired in 24 countries as either a lead/star recurring and/or guest star. He appeared in his first American feature, Marching Out of Time, in 1993. Since then, he’s appeared in a multitude of feature films and TV, both in Hollywood and internationally. He appeared in the Colin Farrell and Bruce Willis film Hart’s War (2002), and in the Bollywood production Colours of Passion (2008), directed by Ketan Mehta. He was cast by Paul Schrader and Bret Easton Ellis for their film The Canyons (2013), and was a guest star in the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced TV series CSI: Cyber (2015) and the Golden Globe nominated comedy Jane the Virgin (2015).

He began his voiceover career in 1996 and has more than 350 credits, most recently for the international releases of the Brad Pitt film Fury (2014), the Tom Hanks film Bridge of Spies (2015), and the upcoming Captain America: Civil War (2016).