Mario Ramos (born 30 June 1973 in

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) is a Spanish

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), l ...

, musician and

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Life and career

Mario Ramos was born in 1973 in Salamanca in Spain and grew up in Germany. He took acting lessons at the theater school Bongôrt van Roy in

Bergisch Gladbach Bergisch Gladbach () is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in the Cologne/Bonn Region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and capital of the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis (district). Geography Bergisch Gladbach is located east of the river ...

. During his training, he played at the Chamber Stage in Bergisch Gladbach in plays like ''

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'', ''Weisman and Rotgesicht'' or ''Stella''. These roles were followed by productions in

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...

where he played various other roles. After the study Ramos was active in numerous projects in

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhab ...

, with several engagements again in Cologne and Bergisch Gladbach. In recent years he played at various local theaters there, such as the Cliff in ''Cabaret'', George Garga in ''In the Jungle of Cities'' or the Happy in

Arthur Miller Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are ''All My Sons'' (1947), ''Death of a Salesman'' (19 ...

's ''

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''. In the mid-2000s Ramos was seen at the

Bad Hersfelder Festspiele The Bad Hersfelder Festspiele is a German theatre festival in Bad Hersfeld, Hesse. The ''Bad Hersfelder Festspiele'' have been staged since 1951. The Festival The ''Bad Hersfeld Festival'' takes place every year from mid-June to early August in ...

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's ''

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'', in

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's ''

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'' or in ''Camelot''. As Mordred in Camelot he got the

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in 2005. Since 2009 he played in the

Störtebeker Festival The Störtebeker Festival (german: Störtebeker-Festspiele) is an yearly open-air theatre festival in Germany. It is based on stories around the medieval German privateer Klaus Störtebeker and his Victual Brothers, who later turned to pirates. ...

on the island of

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. In May 2011, Mario Ramos was seen in the Hamburg musical ''Revolver im Klavier''. In the year 2000 his poems were published in the Martin Werhand Verlag anthology ''Junge Lyrik II''. In 2002 he played his first film role. Ramos has lived since 2002 with his companion the actress

Saskia Fischer Saskia Fischer (born 1966) is a German actress who began her career in 1991. She is the daughter of Nicole Heesters and the granddaughter of famous actors Johannes Heesters and Louisa Ghijs. Fischer has lived since 2002 with actor Mario Ramos in H ...

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...

, with whom he has a son.

Awards

* 2005:

for his role as Mordred in Camelot

Theater roles (selection)

Filmography (selection)

* 2002: Cafe Schwarz * 2003: Der letzte Vorhang * 2004: Das Maß der Dinge * 2005: Der Lord von Barmbeck (TV Movie)

Literature

* ''Junge Lyrik II'', Martin Werhand Verlag, Melsbach 2000
Junge Lyrik-Reihe: 750 Gedichte
.'' Martin Werhand Verlag, 2000

External links

* *
Mario Ramos
im Webauftritt der Komödie Winterhuder Fährhaus
Interview with actor Mario Ramos

Mario Ramos in: Ostsee-Zeitung

Portrait of actor Mario Ramos in: Ostsee-Anzeiger: Der Rüganer

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ramos, Mario 1973 births Living people 20th-century German male actors 21st-century German male actors People from Salamanca German male film actors German male stage actors German male television actors German poets German male poets