Denis Moschitto is a German actor of Italian and Turkish

Turkish people

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

 descent best known for his leading role in Kebab Connection

Kebab Connection

Kebab Connection is a 2005 German-Turkish comedy film, with some slapstick, set in Hamburg.-Plot:Ibo is a young Turkish-German man who is an aspiring filmmaker. A clash of cultures and pre-parental anxiety ensues after Ibo's German girlfriend, Titzi , announces that she's pregnant...

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Early life

Moschitto is the son of an Italian father and a Turkish

Turkish people

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

 mother.

Career

Moschitto made his movie debut in 1999 in Rolf Schübel's "Gloomy Sunday". In the following years, Moschitto was mainly seen in youth films and "coming of age" movies such as "Schule" ("No More School", 2000) or "Nichts bereuen" ("No Regrets", 2001), where the son of an Italian father and a Turkish mother most often appeared as the cunning Italian or Turkish sidekick to the main protagonists.

Moschitto played his first leading role in the comedy "Süperseks" as a Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

-based Turk

Turkish people

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

 who sets up a phone sex hotline for fellow countrymen. Moschitto then played another leading role in a comedy as a wannabe star movie director in Anno Saul's film Kebab Connection

Kebab Connection

Kebab Connection is a 2005 German-Turkish comedy film, with some slapstick, set in Hamburg.-Plot:Ibo is a young Turkish-German man who is an aspiring filmmaker. A clash of cultures and pre-parental anxiety ensues after Ibo's German girlfriend, Titzi , announces that she's pregnant...

. The drama Chiko

Chiko

-Cast:*Denis Moschitto as Chiko*Moritz Bleibtreu as Brownie*Volkan Özcan as Tibet*Fahri Ögün Yardim as Curly*Reyhan Sahin as Meryem*Lilay Huser as Tibets Mutter*Philipp Baltus as Scholle*Henny Reents as Reji*Hans Löw as Sascha*Simon Goerts as Jimmi...

, produced by Fatih Akin

Fatih Akin

Fatih Akın is a German film director, screenwriter and producer of Turkish descent.- Personal life :Akın was born in 1973 in Hamburg to parents of Turkish ethnicity...

, features Moschitto as a small-time gangster from Hamburg who wants to get "to the top" by all means.

Besides his work as an actor, Moschitto is the co-author of the computer books "Hackerland" and "Hackertales" and a musician with the bands "Scoopex" and "Shining-8".

Personal life

Moschitto is friends with actors Jessica Schwarz

Jessica Schwarz

-Biography:Schwarz was born and grew up in the small town of Michelstadt, Germany. She won a contest of the German teen magazine Bravo in 1993. Subsequently, she worked as a model and VJ for the music channel VIVA. In 2000 she started her acting career and occasionally hosts events, e.g. the German...

 and Daniel Brühl

Daniel Brühl

Daniel César Martín Brühl González Domingo is a Spanish/German actor. He is best known as Daniel Brühl.-Personal life:Brühl was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. His father was the late German stage director Hanno Brühl and his mother was a Spanish professor. He also has a brother and a sister...

. They shared an apartment in Cologne for a while. He is also a vegetarian since 2003.

Filmography

• 1999: Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod
  Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod
  Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod is a 1999 film, a German/Hungarian co-production.Although the movie centers on a romantic love triangle with tragic consequences, it has a strong history background, set in Hungary during World War II...
  
  
• 2000: Schule
• 2001: Nichts bereuen
• 2003: Northern Star
• 2003: Die Klasse von '99 – Schule war gestern, Leben ist jetzt
• 2003: Verschwende deine Jugend
• 2005: Süperseks
• 2005: Kebab Connection
  Kebab Connection
  Kebab Connection is a 2005 German-Turkish comedy film, with some slapstick, set in Hamburg.-Plot:Ibo is a young Turkish-German man who is an aspiring filmmaker. A clash of cultures and pre-parental anxiety ensues after Ibo's German girlfriend, Titzi , announces that she's pregnant...
  
  
• 2007: Meine böse Freundin
• 2007: Chiko
  Chiko
  -Cast:*Denis Moschitto as Chiko*Moritz Bleibtreu as Brownie*Volkan Özcan as Tibet*Fahri Ögün Yardim as Curly*Reyhan Sahin as Meryem*Lilay Huser as Tibets Mutter*Philipp Baltus as Scholle*Henny Reents as Reji*Hans Löw as Sascha*Simon Goerts as Jimmi...
  
  
• 2008: 1 1/2 Ritter
• 2009: Tatort
  Tatort
  Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss , crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF 2 in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland...
  
  

Awards

In 2003, Moschitto won the Günter-Strack-Fernsehpreis award as the best young actor.
In 2009, he was nominated for the German Film Award as best actor for his performance in Chiko

Chiko

-Cast:*Denis Moschitto as Chiko*Moritz Bleibtreu as Brownie*Volkan Özcan as Tibet*Fahri Ögün Yardim as Curly*Reyhan Sahin as Meryem*Lilay Huser as Tibets Mutter*Philipp Baltus as Scholle*Henny Reents as Reji*Hans Löw as Sascha*Simon Goerts as Jimmi...

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