Burkhard, Gideon

Gideon Burkhard was born July 3, 1969 in Munich in a family of actors. Mother - Elizabeth von Molo, father - Wolfgang Burkhard. Gideon’s maternal great-grandfather is the famous actor Alexander Moissi , film producer Conrad von Molo is his mother’s grandfather. She owes her name to her mother, at a young age she fell in love with a Hungarian with that name.

Burkhard was expelled from school due to poor behavior. At one time, his parents wanted to send him to a boarding school for hard-to-reach children, but they limited themselves to a private school. Gideon himself from childhood dreamed of becoming a dancer, seeing how Rudolf Nuriev was dancing, and subsequently entered the Munich Ballet Academy.

Burkhard made his debut on the screen at the age of ten by chance - his mother took him with her to the office of a producer friend. The first film that made Burkhard famous was the film Sleeping Beauty. Then he did his main job of filming in German television series and films that were not duplicated in foreign languages.

The return of Burkhard at the world level took place in the series " Commissioner Rex ." In 1998, the movie “The Man in Temptation ” was released, where Burkhard played a man of non-traditional sexual orientation. The hero of Burkhard in the television movie "Superfire" (2002) appeared to be struggling with the element that destroys everything in its path. In 2003, the television series "Insight" was released in Germany, in which Gideon played entrepreneur Reinhard Burger, the husband of a housewife, who subjugated the interests of his second half and everyone around him with his own. In the spring of 2006, the film festival in Austria hosted the premiere of the film “Yu” with Burkhard in the lead role.

In 2009, Gideon starred in an ad for the German clothing chain Peek & Cloppenburg, developing a line of elegant men's suits.

Also in 2009, the movie "Inglourious Basterds" (co-production of the United States and Germany) was released. Burkhard played Corporal Wilhelm Wicca.

Other paintings: the short film Bridges (Germany, 2011), The Wunderkind (Germany, 2011), Ludwig of Bavaria (Germany, 2012), Seducer-2 (Germany, 2012) and Ohne Gnade (Germany, 2013).

From 1995 to 1998, Burkhard lived in the United States. Not having achieved much fame, he came to Las Vegas and in 1996 married the American journalist Bridget Cunningham, but the marriage lasted only 4 months. The culprit of their divorce, journalists called the Englishwoman Emma Hickox, about which Burkhard refused to give any comments. Soon, Gideon met at one of the secular parties with Joanna Steiner, however, already in 2003, he introduced Caroline Watzl as his new girlfriend. July 13, 2004 he had a child - the daughter of Joya Filomen from a model of Italian-German origin Filomena Iannakone. For several years he was in a relationship with Annika Borman. At the moment, nothing is known about Gideon's personal life.

• Bayerischer Filmpreis 1992 - Best Actor in Kleine Haie (Little Sharks)
• In 1998, he was in the top three most desirable men in Germany
• Romy 1999 - the most beloved hero of the series.

• Gideon Burkhard on the Internet Movie Database
• Gideon Burkhard at Komissar Rex online