Pierre Kiwitt
- Actor
French-German actor, speaks five languages French, German, English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Went to French high school in Munich, Germany, where he made his first steps on stage and discovered his passion for acting.
Has done his military service for one year and started a banking career on his father's advice. A so called solid trustworthy job. Becoming a trader at the stock exchange for a few years, it reaffirms his thoughts that this is not his path and he decides to take acting lessons on the side, to pursue his child's dream. He quits banking asap.
Broke but happy, he quickly then, obtains smaller parts on German and French, TV and Cinema.
Step by step, he plays in independent and professional plays & movies, directs and acts in own productions. Always seeking for more experience, he attends different acting workshops all over the world, as also stunt workshops, having done Martial Arts in his youth. He is part of a group working with Action Concept, which is one of the biggest stunt company worldwide. Until today he is member of different actor's studios to keep his art alive.
2007 he receives a job offer for a Brazilian Tv show by Tv Globo for which he learns from scratch Portuguese. The show, "Eterna Magia" is seen by 60-70 million people every day and he is the lead antagonist to Brazilian stars such as Maria Flor, Malu Mader, Irene Ravache, Cassia Kiss, Thiago Lacerda, and many more. The Show is directed by Brazilian's Billy Wilder, Carlos Manga and the well-known theater director Ulysses Cruz.
After this year, he returns to Europe, bases himself in Paris and Berlin.
He acts in feature films, TV movies, series or in plays, not only in France and Germany, but also appears on screen in Spain, where he acts in its biggest TV show "El ministerio del tiempo", and is candidate for the nomination to the Goya as best actor revelation, for his lead role, next to Marian Alvarez (Goya 2014), in the Spanish 2nd World War movie "Lobos Sucios".
He worked in well-known international productions such as "Homeland", "Xcompany" , is part of the main ensemble of the famous sequel "Das Boot" ( over 3 seasons ), and also acts as Stauffenberg the Emmy nominated Serie "Charité II".
As international accomplished and multilingual actor, he is the male lead on the Spanish Serie "Dime quién soy" next to Irene Escolar (Goya 2016), the Portuguese Serie Cuba Libre, next to Beatriz Godinho, the German Serie Money, Murder Zurich ( 5-7mio viewers) or the French fiction documentary "Napoleon and Metternich", as Metternich for Arte.
For his part in the film "Serguei" he also studied Russian or Croatian for the feature "96 hours", by F. Schoedorffer.
He has been part of numerous productions, for Wiedemann & Berg (producers of "live of the others" Oscar 07), Bavaria, UFA, France TV, TF1, Movistar+, TVE, ARD, ZDF, Banijay Group, CBS, Netflix, Peacock ... and worked aside talented, awarded and acclaimed actors such as Miranda Otto ( Homeland ) , Mandy Patinkin ( Homeland ) , Rainer Bock ( Better call Saul ) , Pierre Richard ( The man with the black shoe ) , Tom Wlashiha ( Game of thrones ) , Fanny Ardant ( 8 Femmes ) , Niels Arestrup ( a Prophet ) , Gerard Lanvin ( Point Blank ) , Patrick Bruel ( How about Adolf) , Marian Alvarez ( Wounded ) , Irene Escolar ( Tell me who I am ) , Will Keen ( His Dark Materials ) , Maria Pia Calzone ( Gomorrha ) , Laetitia Eido ( Fauda ), Esther Acebo (Casa de papel ) and many others...
Went to French high school in Munich, Germany, where he made his first steps on stage and discovered his passion for acting.
Has done his military service for one year and started a banking career on his father's advice. A so called solid trustworthy job. Becoming a trader at the stock exchange for a few years, it reaffirms his thoughts that this is not his path and he decides to take acting lessons on the side, to pursue his child's dream. He quits banking asap.
Broke but happy, he quickly then, obtains smaller parts on German and French, TV and Cinema.
Step by step, he plays in independent and professional plays & movies, directs and acts in own productions. Always seeking for more experience, he attends different acting workshops all over the world, as also stunt workshops, having done Martial Arts in his youth. He is part of a group working with Action Concept, which is one of the biggest stunt company worldwide. Until today he is member of different actor's studios to keep his art alive.
2007 he receives a job offer for a Brazilian Tv show by Tv Globo for which he learns from scratch Portuguese. The show, "Eterna Magia" is seen by 60-70 million people every day and he is the lead antagonist to Brazilian stars such as Maria Flor, Malu Mader, Irene Ravache, Cassia Kiss, Thiago Lacerda, and many more. The Show is directed by Brazilian's Billy Wilder, Carlos Manga and the well-known theater director Ulysses Cruz.
After this year, he returns to Europe, bases himself in Paris and Berlin.
He acts in feature films, TV movies, series or in plays, not only in France and Germany, but also appears on screen in Spain, where he acts in its biggest TV show "El ministerio del tiempo", and is candidate for the nomination to the Goya as best actor revelation, for his lead role, next to Marian Alvarez (Goya 2014), in the Spanish 2nd World War movie "Lobos Sucios".
He worked in well-known international productions such as "Homeland", "Xcompany" , is part of the main ensemble of the famous sequel "Das Boot" ( over 3 seasons ), and also acts as Stauffenberg the Emmy nominated Serie "Charité II".
As international accomplished and multilingual actor, he is the male lead on the Spanish Serie "Dime quién soy" next to Irene Escolar (Goya 2016), the Portuguese Serie Cuba Libre, next to Beatriz Godinho, the German Serie Money, Murder Zurich ( 5-7mio viewers) or the French fiction documentary "Napoleon and Metternich", as Metternich for Arte.
For his part in the film "Serguei" he also studied Russian or Croatian for the feature "96 hours", by F. Schoedorffer.
He has been part of numerous productions, for Wiedemann & Berg (producers of "live of the others" Oscar 07), Bavaria, UFA, France TV, TF1, Movistar+, TVE, ARD, ZDF, Banijay Group, CBS, Netflix, Peacock ... and worked aside talented, awarded and acclaimed actors such as Miranda Otto ( Homeland ) , Mandy Patinkin ( Homeland ) , Rainer Bock ( Better call Saul ) , Pierre Richard ( The man with the black shoe ) , Tom Wlashiha ( Game of thrones ) , Fanny Ardant ( 8 Femmes ) , Niels Arestrup ( a Prophet ) , Gerard Lanvin ( Point Blank ) , Patrick Bruel ( How about Adolf) , Marian Alvarez ( Wounded ) , Irene Escolar ( Tell me who I am ) , Will Keen ( His Dark Materials ) , Maria Pia Calzone ( Gomorrha ) , Laetitia Eido ( Fauda ), Esther Acebo (Casa de papel ) and many others...
