The German actor Matthias Schweighefer is a member of the troupe of the Berlin Hebbel Theater, and also acts in films. He knows several languages, plays the violin and piano, writes poetry. Therefore, the images of people of art are not alien to him.
However, many in Germany know that Matthias is a brilliant master of transformation, he can portray any character with any character. He loves his profession so much that once for the sake of his role he defeated aerophobia and played a pilot in the film "The Red Baron".
Matthias Schweighefer was born in Magdeburg, the city of Anklam in 1981. His whole family - people of art for several generations, but Matthias did not show a penchant for acting. He was a good swimmer, was interested in technology and made music. However, these versatile pursuits never became his profession.
In order not to get out of the family tradition, Matthias entered the acting school, and within its walls found a talent for creating a variety of images.
Movie career
When Matthias was 13 years old, he played his first role in the series Doctors, which was very popular, but only in Germany. After several episodic roles, Schweighefer gets a role in the film "The Secret of the Old Crypt" (1998) - then he was 16 years old. The young actor becomes famous in his homeland.
The new century came with success: Matthias was shot a lot at that time, but films with his participation were shown only in Germany. And only in the first decade of the millennium Schweighefer was seen abroad, including in Russia.
The best films of those years with the participation of critics consider the biographical film “Wild Life” (2007), the comedies “Handsome” and “Handsome-2” (2009), the melodrama “Frau Ella” (2013) and the thriller “Operation Valkyrie” (2014) starring Tom Cruise.
After these roles, the name of Schweighefer began to appear on the pages of foreign tabloids, in online reviews, and in Germany he became a real celebrity. However, Matthias is not inherent in arrogance and resting on his laurels. Rather, on the contrary, he is trying to bring even more variety into his professional life.
For example, he took up directing and writing scripts for films, voicing cartoons, producing pictures, and even wrote music for one. His directorial work includes films such as "What kind of guy?" (2011), “Let's Help Part” (2012), “Fatherhood” (2014), “Nanny” (2015), the series “Wanted” (2017-2018). And in the plans - new roles and directorial work.
Fans of Schweighefer's talent note that it is difficult to determine what role he remembered most of all, because everything that Matthias does is brilliant, whether it be the heroic or the most prosaic, in the thriller or in the melodrama. And he has one distinctive feature, because of which in Germany he is called "forever young" - the actor looks much younger than his age.
