Louis Hofmann is a German actor. Popularity for the performer came after the main role in the movie "Tom Sawyer". He played one of the key characters in the drama "My Land", starring in the drama series "Darkness".
The young actor's film debut in Tom Sawyer received a special Young Faces award. The performer received the Golden Camera in 2018 as the best young artist for his work in the telenovela Darkness.
Takeoff start
The biography of the future star began in 1997. The child was born on June 3, near Cologne in the town of Bensberg. Soon the family moved to Cologne, where the boy spent his childhood and adolescence.
Louis first appeared on television at 9. He was invited to the evening program "Servicezeit". He acted as a young expert, evaluating children's activities and theme parks for two years in the Die Ausflieger column.
At 11, Louis realized that he dreamed of a professional artistic education. He met with Russian film stars, often talked with them. As a result, the boy's mother agreed to take her son to an acting agency.
In 2009-2010, Hofmann was assigned small roles in the series Danny Lowinski, The Lost Father, Special Squad Cobra and Wilsburg. The thirteen-year-old boy was offered the lead role in the new film version of Mark Twain's story about Tom Sawyer.
Louis also managed to record the soundtrack "Barefoot". Then in 2012 he starred in the sequel to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a sequel to the German film adaptation. The work of the young artist was awarded a special New Faces prize.
Successful career
The successful debutant interested the directors. Louis did not have time to get theatrical education. Natural talent helps him in his work. He diligently works on the most complex images directly in front of the camera. The actor admits that he is ambitious, and fans completely agree with him.
After graduating from high school, Louis moved to Berlin to continue his studies. The guy had to attend lectures and take exams in short breaks between filming and traveling.
The first serious work of the already matured artist was the character of the movie "Shelter" Wolfgang in 2015. The work of critics was highly appreciated. The performer was named the best aspiring actor of the year, presented with the Bavarian Film Festival Prize.
According to the scenario, due to the stepfather's jealousy of his mother, Hofmann's hero was sent to study in Freistatt, a school for difficult teenagers. However, the institution is more like a prison: the guards use a special system of punishments. The teenager does not want to obey this order and makes others understand that he is not going to become an unrequited victim.
The artist admitted that in his first such work, he worked out the character especially subtly in order to achieve maximum realism on the screen. In the same year, Louis played in the foreign film "My Land" of the German prisoner of war Sebastian Schumann. The work won the Danish Bodil Prize in the Best Actor category. At home, the artist was awarded a national special award.
In 2016, Luis was involved in the filming of the films "Alone in Berlin" and "White Rabbit". After the dramatic telenovela "The Center of My World" in the same period where the artist got a special character, a gay teenager, the talented performer received the European Shooting Stars Award at the Berlinale 2017.
Confession
In Europe, Hofmann was already known as a promising artist. And in 2017, he became world famous after filming the supernatural thriller Dark. The film is set in Winderburg, a small German town. In the center of the story are 4 families. After several generations, they are followed by a whole series of secrets and dark events.
One of the leading characters, Jonas Kanwald, a schoolboy, became the hero of Luis. After the suicide of his father, the teenager who survived the shock found himself at the epicenter of the mysterious disappearance of the baby in the forest. At the same time, the terrible secrets of his own family are revealed to Jonas.
The audience greeted the premiere with enthusiasm. "Dark" has received comparisons with the famous "Twin Peaks" and "Stranger Things." Critics especially noted the overall tone of the project, the pace of the narrative and the complexity of the plot.
Against the backdrop of the success of the telenovela, Luis's film career also went up. Soon he was offered the main character in the drama series Wanted. He also starred in the comedy film Lambok, which first premiered on screen in 2017.
In 2018, an offer came from Hollywood. In the thriller by Francis Lawrence, the actor played a role, albeit small, but very memorable. He reincarnated as a bank manager. Then he met the stars of American cinema Jeremy Irons and Jennifer Lawrence.
In the biographical project about the history of the Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev “Nureyev. White Raven”, shown in 2018, dancer Teji Kremke became Hofmann's character. The young Berliner had a chance to meet the legend of ballet. In the story, the hero of Luis persuaded Nureyev to move to Europe.
Life off the screen
Hofmann's personal life is kept secret from the press. On his Instagram page, there are working moments of filming, photos from various events. However, journalists managed to find out that the talented artist had an affair with Stella Markert, an aspiring model.
The artist continues to participate in the popular television project "Darkness". The show of the new season began on June 21, 2019. The hero of Luis was given more time. He has become one of the key characters in unraveling the tragic mystery of time travel.
In August 2019, the picture "Prelude" was released. In it, the performer got the role of David, a student pianist. He experiences all the difficulties of first love. Louis himself admitted that only after this work he realized that his role was a dramatic hero suffering and overwhelmed by the hardships of life. In one of the leading characters, the actor was reincarnated in the film "The Lesson of the German Language".
The artist does not hide that he prefers domestic cinema to Hollywood. According to him, the film "Tony Erdman" clearly confirms that the German unique stolitstelling is in no way inferior to the American one. But at the same time, the artist admits that he dreams of leaving his own mark in world cinema.
