Joel Basman

Joel Basman

Born 1990-01-23 (age 36) Zürich, Switzerland
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Biography

Joel Basman (born 23 January 1990) is a Swiss actor.

Basman was born in Zurich, Switzerland, to a Swiss Christian mother and an Israeli-Jewish father, both of whom were tailors in the Swiss fashion industry. He grew up in the neighborhood of Aussersihl and was raised bilingual, speaking Swiss-German and Hebrew. He has one older sister who resides in Israel.

In 2004 he started his career and played a bold teenager named Zizou for the weekly soap opera Lüthi und Blanc.

In 2007 director Tobias Ineichen gave the main part to Joel for his film Jimmie. There he played an autistic boy. In February 2008 he got the prize Shooting Star for his part as a Russian teenager on the film Luftibus, written by director Dominque de Rivaz. In September 2008 Joel received the Schweizer Fernsehpreis (Swiss TV-Prize) in the category film. In October 2008 he got the prize for the best main part from Cinema Tous Ecrans.

At the Schauspielhaus Zürich Joel Basman acted 2003 for a youth-theatre project. In 2004 and 2005 he played with students, who were at their final project. He finished his studies at the"European Film Actor School" in October 2008.

In 2012 Basman got a part as Bertel in the three-piece TV film Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter (Our mothers, our fathers). He also played Pascal in the Swiss TV-film Ziellos (Aimless).

Joel Basman played as Sebastien Leclercq in a game called ‘Late Shift’ in 2016.

In 2018, Basman played the lead role in Wolkenbruch's Wondrous Journey Into the Arms of a Shiksa, picked up by Netflix.

Source: Article "Joel Basman" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Known For

The King's Man
The King's Man

2021

as Gavrilo Princip

The Colony
The Colony

2021

as Paling

Head Burst
Head Burst

2019

as Tim

Papillon
Papillon

2017

as Maturette

Hanna
Hanna

2011

as Razor

The Monuments Men
The Monuments Men

2014

as German Soldier at Ghent

Puppylove
Puppylove

2013

as Paul

Kursk
Kursk

2018

as Leo

Land of Mine
Land of Mine

2015

as Helmut Morbach

A Hidden Life
A Hidden Life

2019

as Military Trainee

Chess Story
Chess Story

2021

as Barkeeper Willem

Paula
Paula

2016

as Rainer Maria Rilke

Sennentuntschi: Curse of the Alps
Breakout
Breakout

2007

as Silenzio

Picco
Picco

2011

as Tommy

Stella. A Life.
Stella. A Life.

2024

as Peter

Adventures of a Mathematician
Adventures of a Mathematician

2021

as Edward Teller

Amnesia
Amnesia

2015

as Rudolfo

As We Were Dreaming