Who is Til Schweiger?

Til Schweiger is one of Germany’s most famous and successful actors and award winners, hit movie producer, screenwriter, director, voice actor, and movie editor.

To date, he has been awarded BAMBI Bavarian Film Award, German Comedy Award, DIVA Awards, and Ernst Lubitsch Award.

Til runs his production company, Barefoot Films in Berlin, Germany.

Age, Parents, Siblings, Family

Til Schweiger was born Tilman Valentin Schweiger on December 1963 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

A Sagittarius, Til belongs to the Baby Boomer Generation.

He believes in spiritualism instead of any given religion.

His parents, Herbert Schweiger and Monika Schweiger were both teachers and they raised him with his two brothers in their hometown in Giessen.

Despite the family’s limited circumstances, Herbert and  Monika did everything they could to instill self-respect in their three sons.

Til keeps working out of self-respect.

Education, University

Til speaks a hard-to-understand, archaic German.

Initially, he planned to study German and Medicine and become a teacher but soon changed his mind.

Instead, he chose acting.

From 1986-1989 he studied drama and acting at Der Keller in Cologne, Germany, and in 1989 he graduated.