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Sebastian Koch (born 31 May 1962) is a German television and movie actor and recipient of various German film awards. He is perhaps best known in the United States for his role in the 2007 Academy Award winning film ''The Lives of Others'' and as a villain opposite Bruce Willis in ''A Good Day to Die Hard'', and he has a featured role in the 2015 film ''Bridge of Spies''. ==Life and career== Koch was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, and grew up in Stuttgart. His mother raised him alone, and he spent some time in the children's home where she worked. From 1982 to 1985 Koch studied at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich, and performed during this time with the ''Theater der Jugend'' (Youth Theatre). After appearing at the municipal theatres of Ulm and Darmstadt, Koch started appearing in Berlin theatres in 1990. There he acted in works including Schiller's ''The Robbers'', Goethe's ''Iphigenie auf Tauris'', and ''Dirty Dishes'' by Nick Whitby. Besides numerous film and TV roles, Koch also made frequent cameos in popular German crime series during this time. Following his acclaimed portrayal of Andreas Baader in Heinrich Breloer's docudrama ', he appeared in many full-length television dramas. His breakthrough roles came in 2001 with the portrayal of the kidnapped Richard Oetker (son of industrialist Rudolf August Oetker) in ', and of the writer Klaus Mann in Heinrich Breloer's docudrama '. Koch received the Adolf Grimme Award for both roles, and is the only actor to have won the award for two different productions in one year. For his portrayal of Hitler's would-be assassin, the title character in Jo Baier's ''Stauffenberg'', Koch was nominated for the German Television Awards and the Grimme Award, and received the Golden Gong award from the media magazine ''Gong''. In 2004, Koch appeared in a Heinrich Breloer production for the third time. This time he played the Nazi architect Albert Speer in ''Speer und Er'' ("Speer and He", released as ''Speer and Hitler: The Devil's Architect''). 2006 saw the premiere in German cinemas of the drama ''Das Leben der Anderen'' (''The Lives of Others''), winner of the 2007 Academy Award for best international film,〔(movies.yahoo.com )〕 in which Koch played a leading role.〔(movies.yahoo.com )〕 From 2006 to 2007, he appeared at Bochum Theatre after a 12-year absence from the stage, playing Lord Goring in Oscar Wilde's ''An Ideal Husband''. Again in 2006 he portrayed Reinhard Mohn in the film adaptation of his life. Koch, along with Yuliya Snigir, appeared as Russian villains in the fifth movie of the ''Die Hard'' series, ''A Good Day to Die Hard''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sebastian Koch」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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