Joel Basman

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1990-01-23 (35 years old)

Place of Birth

Zürich, Switzerland

Joel Basman

Biography

Joel Basman (born 23 January 1990) is a Swiss actor. Basman was born in Zurich, Switzerland, to a Swiss Christian mother and an Israeli-Jewish father, both of whom were tailors in the Swiss fashion industry. He grew up in the neighborhood of Aussersihl and was raised bilingual, speaking Swiss-German and Hebrew. He has one older sister who resides in Israel. In 2004 he started his career and played a bold teenager named Zizou for the weekly soap opera Lüthi und Blanc. In 2007 director Tobias Ineichen gave the main part to Joel for his film Jimmie. There he played an autistic boy. In February 2008 he got the prize Shooting Star for his part ...

Acting

2021

The King's Man

as Gavrilo Princip

2010

Wacked..!

as Mani

2013

Puppylove

as Paul

2011

Hanna

as Razor

2011

Picco

as Tommy

2021

Chess Story

as Barkeeper Willem

2023

Lubo

as Bruno Reiter

2008

Luftbusiness

as Liocha

2008

2007

Breakout

as Silenzio

2014

Ziellos

as Pascal Saner

2024

2014

Keep Rollin'

as Valentin

2015

Dawn

as Elisha

2015

2015

Land of Mine

as Helmut Morbach

2010

2008

2022

Late Shift

as Sébastien Leclercq

2016

Paula

as Rainer Maria Rilke

2017

Bye Bye Germany

as Lubliner

2008

Jimmie

as Jimmie Berger

2012

2017

Papillon

as Maturette

2015

Amnesia

as Rudolfo

2018

Kursk

as Leo

2019

The Working Man

as Patrick "Sigi" Signer

2021

2008

Mikado

as Julian

2019

2022

Caged Birds

as Walter Stürm

2021

The Colony

as Paling

2018

Chris the Swiss

as Chris (voice)

2019

A Hidden Life

as Military Trainee

2014

The Monuments Men

as German Soldier at Ghent

2021

Dear Thomas

as Klaus Brasch

2021

Monte Verità

as Hermann Hesse

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