Tonio Arango (born 31 January 1963) is a German actor. Born in

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, Arango is the son of a

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mother and a

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n father and grew up in

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, then part of

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, surrounded by

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, 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

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, and

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. In the

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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

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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" *''

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: Highway Maniac'' (2000) as Jochen 'Joe' Fischer *''

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'' (2008) as Kistenmaker *''

SOKO Wismar ''SOKO Wismar'' is a German police procedural television series that premiered on 6 October 2004 on ZDF. It is the fifth offshoot of '' SOKO München'', launched in 1978 under the name ''SOKO 5113''. "SOKO" is an abbreviation of the German word ...

: 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 *''

: Die Freuden des Alters'' (2017) as Dr Alexander Immel *'' Großstadtrevier: Der Master'' (2018) as Sky Masterssohn *'' Spy City'' (2020) as August Froben *'' The Phoenician Scheme'' (2025) as Assassin #1 (Desert)

References

External links

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English Interview from Tonio Arango
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