Benno Fürmann
Highest Rated: 89% Jerichow (2008)
Lowest Rated: 8% Survivor (2015)
Birthday: Jan 17, 1972
Birthplace: West Berlin, West Germany
German actor Benno Fürmann has enjoyed success in television and film, in both his homeland as well as the United States Born in Berlin, Fürmann had a traumatic childhood, which included losing both his parents, as well as enduring serious physical injuries while attempting to "train surf" (which resulted in an extended hospital stay). After relocating to New York in 1991, Fürmann enlisted in the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, and soon after began appearing in a variety of television shows and movies (mostly German-based). Fürmann began racking up award wins and nominations for his work, including a German Television Award in 1999 (for "Die Bubi Scholz Story"), a Bavarian Film Award in 2001 (for "Friends"), and an Adolf Grimme Award in 2005 (for "Wolfsburg"). In fact, Fürmann had become such a fixture and leading man in German cinema, that he was nominated for a Golden Camera Award in 2005 for "Best German Actor."
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11% | 50% | Intrigo: Death of an Author | David (Character) | - | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | 32% | Bright Night | Bernd (Character) | - | 2015 |
| 8% | 32% | Survivor | Zafer (Character) | - | 2015 |
| 20% | No Score Yet | Heil | Sven (Character) | - | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Radical Evil | Unknown (Voice) | - | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wild Land | Arnim Von Hohenberg (Character) | - | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Green Planet | Unknown (Character) | - | 2012 |
| 88% | 81% | In Darkness | Mundek Margulies (Character) | $1.0M | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Tom Sawyer | Indianer Joe (Character) | - | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | 14% | Devil's Kickers | Unknown (Character) | - | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 55% | The Wild Chicks and Life | Lehrer Grünbaum (Character) | - | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | Kaifeck Murder | Marc Barenberg (Character) | - | 2009 |
| 84% | 82% | North Face | Toni Kurz (Character) | $711.0K | 2008 |
| 89% | 58% | Jerichow | Thomas (Character) | - | 2008 |
| 18% | 24% | Mutant Chronicles | Lt. Maximillian von Steiner (Character) | $4.7K | 2008 |
| 41% | 60% | Speed Racer | Inspector Detector (Character) | $43.9M | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Friends Forever | Johnny Mauser (Voice) | - | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | 66% | Surviving With Wolves | Reuven (Character) | - | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps | Jan (Character) | - | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | Crusade: A March Through Time | Unknown (Character) | - | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wild Chicks | Lehrer Grünbaum (Character) | - | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | 63% | Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King | Unknown (Character) | - | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Storm Tide | Jürgen Urban (Character) | - | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | 61% | Ghosts | Oliver (Character) | - | 2005 |
| 74% | 89% | Merry Christmas | Nikolaus Sprink (Character) | - | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sword of Xanten |
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- | 2004 |
| 50% | 66% | My House in Umbria | Unknown (Character) | - | 2003 |
| 10% | 38% | The Order | William Eden (Character) | $7.7M | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Wolfsburg | Philipp Gerber (Character) | - | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Naked | Felix (Character) | - | 2002 |
| 63% | 88% | The Princess and the Warrior | Bodo Riemer (Character) | $871.1K | 2000 |
| 58% | 46% | Anatomy | Hein (Character) | $5.7K | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Annaluise and Anton | Carlos (Character) | - | 1999 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 91% | Babylon Berlin | Wendt (Character) | 2017 2020 2022 |
| No Score Yet | 73% | Biohackers | Andreas Winter (Character) | 2020 |
| 80% | 78% | Hanna | Dieter (Character) | 2019 |