Name |
Ken Duken |
Height |
|
Naionality |
German |
Date of Birth |
17-April-1979 |
Place of Birth |
Heidelberg, Germany |
Famous for |
Acting |
Ken Duken is a German actor. Ken Duken is the third child of film and stage actress Christina Loeb; his father is a doctor. Duken never attended a drama school but took courses in drama, including under James Reynold. The actor initially played various theatre roles, including in such plays as Der Besuch der alten Dame, Das Haus in Montevideo and in various Shakespeare plays. He debuted as a film actor in 1997, playing a small role in the television crime film Blutiger Ernst alongside Nadja Uhl and Daniel Bruhl.
Duken was a member of the cast in the core produced by ZDF since 2002 police drama series Night Shift by Lars Becker as a young Commissioner Teddy Schrader. Also known is his portrayal of a Communist spy in the movie Karol-A Man Who Became Pope. In the autumn of 2006 he was in Tolstoy's War and Peace by Robert Dornhelm in Russia and Lithuania, in which he played the role of Anatol Kuragin. The SWR teleplay Welcome home, Ken embodied in the war returnees Ben Winter, was shot mid-December 2007.
In 2003, together with Duken including Bernd Katzmarczyk and Norbert Kneissl worked with the production company Grand Hotel Pictures. In its first work From another point of view he plays next to his wife Marisa Leonie Bach and Dominique Pinon. In 2009, he continued his own production number with the psycho-thriller Distance. In addition to his work as an actor, Duken is now increasingly found behind the camera. For his film From another point of view, as well as several music videos, such as for Oomph! Rapper and the Curse, he has directed.