{{short description|German actor and filmmaker|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Infobox person | name = Sebastian Schipper | image = Sebastian Schipper.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Schipper at the 2009 Festival des deutschen Films | birth_name = Sebastian Schipper | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1968|5|8}} | birth_place = Hanover, West Germany | alma_mater = Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts | years_active = 1992–present | occupation = {{hlist|Filmmaker|actor}} | spouse = | children = }}
'''Sebastian Schipper''' (born 8 May 1968) is a German actor and filmmaker.
==Life and career== Sebastian Schipper studied acting at the Otto Falckenberg Schule in Munich from 1992 to 1995. He got his first film role in Sönke Wortmann's ''Little Sharks'' from 1992. He debuted as director with ''Absolute Giganten'' from 1999, which received the second place prize for the German Film Award for Best Fiction Film. It was co-produced by Tom Tykwer, who has cast Schipper in several of his own films. Schipper's 2009 film ''Sometime in August'' is loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel ''Elective Affinities''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.filmportal.de/person/sebastian-schipper_6158975479ed42aa8201ca06edbec6ff|title=Sebastian Schipper|language=German|work=Filmportal.de|publisher=Deutsches Filminstitut|accessdate=2015-06-15}}</ref> His fourth film as director is ''Victoria'', a film about a night in a Berlin nightclub gone awry, shot in one continuous take. It played at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival and won in six categories at the German Film Award 2015, including Best Film and Best Direction.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Roxborough|first=Scott|date=2015-06-19|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/victoria-a-one-take-german-803658|title=One-Take Thriller 'Victoria' Wins German Film Awards|work=The Hollywood Reporter|accessdate=2015-06-25}}</ref>
==Filmography== ;As actor *1992: ''Little Sharks'' (''Kleine Haie'') - Hamlet *1996: ''The English Patient'' - Interrogation Room Soldier #1 *1997: ''Winter Sleepers'' (''Winterschläfer'') - Otto *1998: ''Eine ungehorsame Frau'' (TV Movie) - Niklas *1998: ''Run Lola Run'' (''Lola rennt'') - Mike *1998: ''Das merkwürdige Verhalten geschlechtsreifer Großstädter zur Paarungszeit'' - Andi *1999: ''Fremde Freundin'' - Matthias *2000: ''{{ill|England!|it}}'' - Galerist *2000: ''The Princess and the Warrior'' (''Der Krieger und die Kaiserin'') - Security Typ 1 *2002: ''Elephant Heart'' - Baerwald *2003: ''Ganz und gar'' - Physiotherapeut Frank *2004: ''{{ill|Nightsongs (film)|de|3=Die Nacht singt ihre Lieder|lt=Nightsongs}}'' - Baste *2005: ''{{Ill|A Quiet Love|de|Die blaue Grenze}}'' - Biskup *2010: ''Three'' (''Drei'') - Simon *2012: ''{{ill|Überleben an der Wickelfront|de}}'' (TV Movie) - Chefredakteur *2012: ''Ludwig II'' - Ludwig II. im Alter *2013: ''{{ill|Alaska Johansson|de}}'' (TV Movie) - Chefredakteur *2013-2015: ''Tatort'' - Kommissar Jan Katz *2014: ''Inbetween Worlds'' - Constantin Lemarchal (uncredited) *2014: ''I Am Here'' - Peter *2015: ''Coconut Hero'' - Frank Burger *2024: ''Sad Jokes''
'''As director and writer''' *1999: ''Absolute Giganten'' *2006: ''A Friend of Mine'' (''Ein Freund von mir'') *2009: ''Sometime in August'' (''Mitte Ende August'') *2015: ''Victoria'' *2019: ''Roads''
==References== {{Commonscat|Sebastian Schipper}} {{Reflist}}
{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Schipper, Sebastian}} Category:1968 births Category:20th-century German male actors Category:21st-century German male actors Category:German male film actors Category:German male television actors Category:Film people from Hanover Category:Living people Category:Male actors from Hanover Category:Best Director German Film Award winners