Tayfun Bademsoy
Tayfun Bademsoy ( born October 14, 1958 in Mersin, Turkey) is a Turkish - German actor and voice actor.
Life
Bademsoy came in 1969 with his parents at the age of ten years after Berlin. His mother is actress Sabahat Bademsoy. He graduated at the Martin Buber High School and studied psychology from 1979 to 1983 at the Technical University of Berlin.
Bademsoy began his acting career with a starring role in the television game Zuhaus among strangers of Radio Free Berlin. In Peter Stein's staging of theater classes Foe ( 1983) and later in the film, he played a Turkish student who mainly verbal duels with other students to pass the time until the arrival of the teacher; However, the teacher no longer appears. More theater work followed at the Frankfurt Schauspielhaus and at the Renaissance Theater in Berlin.
Since 1979 Bademsoy has appeared in over 250 television and film productions, mainly in crime series, including some scene sequences, continuously in the television series A strong team ( 1995-2009 ) and Police 110 Munich. He became famous by the movie hit by Dominik Graf and with the 20- part TV series Two Schlitzohren in Antalya. In the 17 -part RTL television series all love Jimmy, he played Jimmy's father. His first international film role was in the role of Atlantic Records founder Ertegun in the film Beyond the Sea directed by Kevin Spacey.
Besides our own directorial work - mostly in short films, commercials or as a co-director - Bademsoy is also voice actors. So he lent among others Naveen Andrews in the series Lost, Mark Strong in Body of Lies, Fisher Stevens lives in number 5, Benicio Del Toro in The Usual Suspects and Over the Hedge the cat his voice. Also for radio plays and computer games he has worked as a voice actor.
Tayfun Bademsoy founded the talent agency Foreign Faces in Berlin, which he had until 2004 was as managing director for many years. The agency gave actors of foreign origin for German productions.