Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 23, 1990
Place of Birth
Zürich, Switzerland
Credits
68 titles
Joel Basman
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Girl with the Leica
Bertolt Brecht
Kafka
Franz Kafka
Stella. A Life.
Peter
Lubo
Bruno Reiter
Late Shift
Sébastien Leclercq
The Shadowers
Charles Lacroix
Der Überfall
Daniel Kowalski
KaDeWe
Harry Jandorf
The King's Man
Gavrilo Princip
Caged Birds
Walter Stürm
Dear Thomas
Klaus Brasch
Chess Story
Barkeeper Willem
The Colony
Paling
Monte Verità
Hermann Hesse
Ich und die Anderen
Adventures of a Mathematician
Edward Teller
Head Burst
Tim
A Hidden Life
Military Trainee
The Working Man
Patrick "Sigi" Signer
Kursk
Leo
Chris the Swiss
Chris (voice)
Clash of Futures (1918-1939)
Rudolf Höß
The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch
Motti
Once Upon a Time in Indian Country
Kondor
Papillon
Maturette
Bye Bye Germany
Lubliner
Paula
Rainer Maria Rilke
Nussknacker und Mausekönig
Mausekönig
Land of Mine
Helmut Morbach
Amnesia
Rudolfo
Dawn
Elisha
As We Were Dreaming
Mark
We Are Young. We Are Strong.
Robbie
Keep Rollin'
Valentin
Ziellos
Pascal Saner
The Monuments Men
German Soldier at Ghent
Puppylove
Paul
Generation War
Bartel
Summer Outside
Theo
The Swiss Miss Massacre
Johnny
Homeland
Anders
Schawinski
Self
Löwenzahn - Das Kinoabenteuer
Ronny
Hanna
Razor
Picco
Tommy
Songs of Love and Hate
Fabio
Rosannas Tochter
Ruben
Sennentuntschi: Curse of the Alps
Albert
Wacked..!
Mani
Happy New Year
Oskar