Tom Schilling

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Tom Schilling, born 10 February 1982 in East Berlin, is a German film and television actor. He grew up in Berlin Mitte and was discovered at age 12 by stage director Thomas Heise. He joined the Berliner Ensemble and performed in several plays for four years while still at school, eventually earning his Abitur. His screen debut was in 1996 at age 14 in Hallo, Onkel Doc!. He later appeared in Paradise Mall (1999). His breakthrough came with Crazy (2000), which won him the Bayerischer Filmpreis Talented Young Actor Award. In Napola – Elite für den Führer (2004) he played a young student at a Nazi elite school. In 2006 he received a scholarship to study at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York. He played the young Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf (2009). He has said he originally wanted to be a painter and that acting can be demanding for someone who is not very extroverted. He has three children. He and his partner Annie Mosebach had a son in 2014 and a daughter in 2017; they married in 2019. He also has a son from 2006 with an unnamed partner.