Tonio Arango (born 31 January 1963) is a German actor. Born in Berlin, Arango is the son of a German mother and a

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n father and grew up in Wilmersdorf, then part of West Berlin, surrounded by East Germany, with his brother Sascha Arango, now a screenwriter. He went on to train for an acting career at the Max Reinhardt Seminar, a drama school in Vienna, from 1986 to 1990, and left without graduating. He then became a successful stage actor, appearing in Hamburg,

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, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Zurich, and Vienna. In the Oskar Roehler film '' No Place to Go'' (2000) Arango played Ronald alongside Hannelore Elsner. In 2007, he had his first notable television role as a Nazi lawyer, Heinrich von Gernstorff, in '' March of Millions'', with Maria Furtwängler.

Selected appearances

*'' Back to Square One'' (1994) as Banker *'' No Place to Go'' (2000) as Ronald *'' March of Millions'' (2007) as Count GernstorffAxel Bangert, ''The Nazi Past in Contemporary German Film: Viewing Experiences of Intimacy and Immersion'' (Boydell & Brewer, 2014), p. 153 *'' Der Kriminalist'' (2007) "Totgeschwiegen" *'' Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei: Highway Maniac'' (2000) as Jochen 'Joe' Fischer *'' Buddenbrooks'' (2008) as Kistenmaker *'' SOKO Wismar: Spieglein, Spieglein'' (2010) as Tom Dahlmann *'' Cologne P.D.: Waschen, schneiden, töten'' (2011) as Jesco Brandt *''Shakespeares letzte Runde'' (2016) as Othello *'' Cologne P.D.: Der Mann mit der Geige'' (2017) as Dr Felix Dambrosy *'' SOKO Wismar: Die Freuden des Alters'' (2017) as Dr Alexander Immel *'' Großstadtrevier: Der Master'' (2018) as Sky Masterssohn *'' Spy City'' (2020) as August Froben

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External links

Tonio Arango
at IMDb
arango.de
(official site)
English Interview from Tonio Arango
at YouTube {{DEFAULTSORT:Arango, Tonio 1963 births 20th-century German male actors 21st-century German male actors German male film actors Male actors from Berlin German people of Colombian descent Living people