German actor Matthias Schweighefer is in the troupe of the Berlin Hebbel theater, and also acts in films. He knows several languages, plays the violin and piano, writes poetry. Therefore, the images of people of art are not alien to him.
However, many in Germany know that Matthias is a genius master of transformation, he can portray any character, with any character. He loves his profession so much that once, for the sake of the role, he defeated aerophobia and played a pilot in the film "The Red Baron".
Matthias Schweighefer was born in the state of Magdeburg, the city of Anklam in 1981. His entire family is people of art for several generations, but Mattias did not show a penchant for acting. He was a good swimmer, was interested in technique and made music. However, these versatile pursuits never became his profession.
In order not to get out of the family tradition, Matthias entered the acting school, and within its walls he discovered a talent for creating a variety of images.
Film career
When Matthias was 13 years old, he played his first role in the series Doctors, which was very popular, but only in Germany. After several cameo roles, Schweighefer gets a role in the film "The Secret of the Ancient Crypt" (1998) - then he was 16 years old. The young actor becomes famous in his homeland.
The new century came with success: Matthias was filming a lot at that time, but films with his participation were shown only in Germany. And only in the first decade of the millennium, Schweighefer was seen abroad, including in Russia.
The best films of those years with the participation of the actor, critics consider the biographical tape "Wild Life" (2007), the comedies "Handsome" and "Handsome-2" (2009), the melodrama "Frau Ella" (2013) and the thriller "Operation Valkyrie" (2014) starring Tom Cruise.
After these roles, the name of Schweighefer began to appear on the pages of foreign tabloids, in Internet reviews, and in Germany he became a real celebrity. However, conceit and laurels are not inherent in Matthias. Rather, on the contrary, he tries to add even more variety to his professional life.
For example, he took up directing and writing scripts for films, voicing cartoons, producing films, and even wrote music for one. His directorial work includes the following films: "What kind of guy?" (2011), "Let's Help to Separate" (2012), "Fatherhood" (2014), "Nanny" (2015), the series "Wanted" (2017-2018). And in the plans - new roles and directorial work.
Fans of Schweighefer's talent note that it is difficult to determine for which role he is remembered most of all, because everything Matthias does he does with brilliance, be it the heroic or the most prosaic role, in a thriller or in a melodrama. And he also has one distinctive feature, because of which in Germany he is called "forever young" - the actor looks much younger than his years.
Personal life
Mattias is not spoiled by the attention of the paparazzi, like Hollywood stars, so he does not hide the facts of his personal life. In one interview, he said that he lived in a civil marriage with Ani Shromm, and they had a daughter, Greta, in 2009. Three years later, they parted, and did not see each other for a whole year, And when they met again, feelings flared up again. Annie is now Matthias's wife. Their family lives in Berlin and is already raising two children: in 2014, Valentin Schweighefer, the heir to the acting dynasty, was born.
