Uwe Ochsenknecht

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Uwe Ochsenknecht
Ochsenknecht in 2019
Born	Uwe Adam Ochsenknecht (1956-01-07) 7 January 1956 (age 65) Biblis, West Germany
Occupation	Actor, singer
Years active	1978–present
Spouse(s)	Natascha Ochsenknecht ​ ​ (m. 1993⁠–⁠2012)​ Kiki Viebrock ​ ​ (m. 2017)​

Uwe Adam Ochsenknecht (German pronunciation: [ˈuːvə ˈɔksn̩ˌknɛçt] (listen); born 7 January 1956) is a German actor and singer.

Career[]

Films Ochsenknecht has starred in include Das Boot (1981), Schtonk! (1992), and the TV miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune (2000).

In the early 1990s, he gained a second foothold in music. He has since released several albums; he is a singer in the band The Screen, while Mick Rogers (Manfred Mann's Earth Band) and Thomas Blug are guitar players. The two ex-musicians of Gary Moore's band Pete Rees (bass) and Graham Walker (drums) are also represented.

Ochsenknecht stars in the television film series Der Bulle und das Landei, playing a police commissioner who was transferred to the rural Eifel area, at irregular intervals since 2009.

Personal life[]

Ochsenknecht was married to Natascha Ochsenknecht until 2012^[1] and has three children with her: sons Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht (b. 1990) and Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht (b. 1991), who are both actors, and daughter Cheyenne Savannah Ochsenknecht (b. 2000). His oldest son, Rocco Stark, is from an earlier girlfriend.^[2] Wilson and Jimi Ochsenknecht acted together with him in the films Erleuchtung garantiert and Die wilden Kerle (English: The Wild Soccer Bunch) and its four sequels.

In July 2017, Ochsenknecht married Kiki Viebrock.

Awards[]

• 1999 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Actor^[3]

Filmography[]

References[]

External links[]

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