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Date of Birth

19 December 1963, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Birth Name

Tilman Valentin Schweiger

Nickname

T-Dog
Tilly
Whispering-wulf
T-Bone-Til

Height

5' 10" (1.78 m)

Spouse

Dana Carlsen

(19 June 1995 - present) (separated) 4 children

Trivia

He and his wife Dana Carlsen have 4 children: Valentin Schweiger (born in 1995), Luna Schweiger (born in 1997), Lilli Schweiger (born in 1998) and Emma Schweiger (born in October 2002).

After studying German at the university for two years to become a teacher, he attended acting lessons at a drama school in Cologne.

Turned down the role of the German soldier, who shoots Tom Hanks's character (Captain John H. Miller) in Saving Private Ryan (1998) because he had reservations about the role's effect on his image at the American audience.

Lives in Berlin, Germany (2007).

First non-Polish actor who received the Best Actor Award at the Polish Film Festival (1998) for his role in Bandyta (1997).

After the separation from his wife Dana, he moved to Berlin (2006).

Attended acting lessons at "Der Keller" in Cologne and graduated in 1989.

His parents both were teachers.

Although being a box office hit in Germany, his movie Keinohrhasen (2007) wasn't nominated for a German Film Award. The reason for this was that the German Film Academy didn't accept watermarked DVDs for the jury. But Warner Bros. does not distribute copies to juries without anti-piracy measures. Thus, he angrily left the German Film Academy, but finally decided to re-enter some weeks later (2008).

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