Leon Seidel
{{Short description|German actor}}
{{BLP sources|date=May 2013}}
{{Infobox person
|name = Leon Seidel
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|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1996|11|22}}
|birth_place = Cologne, Germany
|occupation = Actor
|yearsactive = 2008–present
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Leon Seidel (born November 22, 1996){{cite web |url=http://www.agenturschwarz.de/schauspieler/leon-seidel.html |title=Agentur Schwarz {{!}} Leon Seidel |website=www.agenturschwarz.de |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130318032124/http://www.agenturschwarz.de/schauspieler/leon-seidel.html |archive-date=2013-03-18}} is a German actor. He is known for playing the role of "Huckleberry Finn" in the German film of 2011 {{Ill|Tom Sawyer (2011 film)|de|3=Tom Sawyer (2011)|lt=Tom Sawyer}}.
Life and career
Seidel was born in Cologne. His talent for acting, says Seidel, he had inherited from his father, who works in a cabaret group. Would be 2008, then 11-year-old made his debut in Kaspar Heidelbach's movie Berlin '36 and completed several appearances in the TV comedy Stromberg, where he played the son of Jennifer Schirrmann (Milena Thirty) and almost the stepson of the infamous bosses become.{{Cite web |url=http://www.filmstarts.de/personen/96265-Leon-Seidel/biografie/ |title=Biografie von Leon Seidel - FILMSTARTS.de |access-date=2013-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019134307/http://www.filmstarts.de/personen/96265-Leon-Seidel/biografie/ |archive-date=2013-10-19 |url-status=dead }}
It was followed by a supporting role in the sports comedy {{Ill|Devil's Kickers|de|Teufelskicker}} by Granz Henman, who came in 2010 in the cinemas and made known on the side of stars such as Armin Rohde and Benno Furmann a wider cinema audience the young actor. Since October 2011, the young actor is seen in his first major role in John Schmid's German-Polish drama Winter's Daughter.
Only a month later he work for Hermine Huntgeburth's {{Ill|Tom Sawyer (2011 film)|de|3=Tom Sawyer (2011)|lt=Tom Sawyer}}, in which the young actor take on the role of the orphan Huckleberry Finn and acting on the side of Louis Hofmann who play the title character. In 2012 took on the lead role in the sequel {{Ill|The Adventures of Huck Finn (2012 film)|de|3=Die Abenteuer des Huck Finn|lt=The Adventures of Huck Finn}}.
In addition to his acting work Leon Seidel can also be heard as a speaker.
Filmography
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!style="background:#B0C4DE;text-align:center;"|Year !style="background:#B0C4DE;text-align:center;"|Title !style="background:#B0C4DE;text-align:center;"|Role !class="unsortable" style="background:#B0C4DE;text-align:center;"|Notes |
| rowspan="3"|2009
| Walter Bergmann | |
| Stromberg
| Helge | Episode: Helge |
| Tatort: Der Fluch der Mumie
| | TV movie |
| 2010
| Wintertochter | Knäcke | |
| rowspan="2"|2011
| {{Ill|Tom Sawyer (2011 film)|de|3=Tom Sawyer (2011)|lt=Tom Sawyer}} | Huckleberry Finn | |
| Stromberg
| Helge | Episodes: Frau Wilhelmi, Der Nachfolger |
| 2012
| {{Ill|The Adventures of Huck Finn (2012 film)|de|3=Die Abenteuer des Huck Finn|lt=The Adventures of Huck Finn}} | Huckleberry Finn | |
| 2014
| Frank Hoffmann | |
| 2015
| Wilhelm LeBern | |
| 2021
| Max | |
Awards and nominations
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!style="background:#B0C4DE;text-align:center;"|Year !style="background:#B0C4DE;text-align:center;"|Award !style="background:#B0C4DE;text-align:center;"|Category !style="background:#B0C4DE;text-align:center;"|Work !style="background:#B0C4DE;text-align:center;"|Result |
| 2011
| rowspan="2"|New Faces Award | Bester Kinderfilmdarsteller | Wintertochter | {{won}} |
| 2012
| Bestes Jugendtalent | Tom Sawyer | {{won}} |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|3487965}}
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Category:German male child actors
Category:German male television actors