Joel Basman
Known For
Acting
Born
1990-01-23 in Zürich, Switzerland
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.
Most Known For
Homeland
as Anders
Scene of the Crime
as Manu
Scene of the Crime
as Mike Nickel
Scene of the Crime
as Werner Weißenbach
Scene of the Crime
as Nurali Balsiger
Scene of the Crime
as Tim König
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
as Nils Bauer
SOKO Wismar
as Mike
Polizeiruf 110
as Dennis Kuscinsky
Der Alte
as Leo Münster
Abendschau
as Self
Aeschbacher
as Self
G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
as Self
The King's Man
as Gavrilo Princip
German Film Award
as Self
Papillon
as Maturette
Generation War
as Bartel
Hanna
as Razor
The Monuments Men
as German Soldier at Ghent
The Colony
as Paling