
Joel Basman (born 23 January 1990) is a Swiss actor. Basman was born in Zurich, Switzerland, to a Swiss Christian mother and an Israeli-Jewish father, both of whom were tailors in the Swiss fashion industry. He grew up in the neighborhood of Aussersihl and was raised bilingual, speaking Swiss-German and Hebrew. He has one older sister who resides in Israel. In 2004 he started his career and played a bold teenager named Zizou for the weekly soap opera Lüthi und Blanc. In 2007 director Tobias Ineichen gave the main part to Joel for his film Jimmie. There he played an autistic boy. In February 2008 he got the prize Shooting Star for his part as a Russian teenager on the film Luftibus, written by director Dominque de Rivaz. In September 2008 Joel received the Schweizer Fernsehpreis (Swiss TV-Prize) in the category film. In October 2008 he got the prize for the best main part from Cinema Tous Ecrans. At the Schauspielhaus Zürich Joel Basman acted 2003 for a youth-theatre project. In 2004 and 2005 he played with students, who were at their final project. He finished his studies at the"European Film Actor School" in October 2008. In 2012 Basman got a part as Bertel in the three-piece TV film Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter (Our mothers, our fathers). He also played Pascal in the Swiss TV-film Ziellos (Aimless). Joel Basman played as Sebastien Leclercq in a game called ‘Late Shift’ in 2016. In 2018, Basman played the lead role in Wolkenbruch's Wondrous Journey Into the Arms of a Shiksa, picked up by Netflix. Source: Article "Joel Basman" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

as Mr. Käsemodell

as Bertolt Brecht

as Peter

as Bruno Reiter

as Sébastien Leclercq

as Gavrilo Princip

as Walter Stürm

as Klaus Brasch

as Barkeeper Willem

as Paling

as Hermann Hesse

as Edward Teller

as Tim

as Military Trainee

as Patrick "Sigi" Signer

as Leo

as Chris (voice)

as Kondor

as Maturette

as Lubliner

as Rainer Maria Rilke

as Mausekönig

as Helmut Morbach

as Rudolfo

as Elisha

as Mark

as Robbie

as Valentin

as Pascal Saner

as German Soldier at Ghent

as Paul

as Theo

as Johnny

as Ronny

as Razor

as Tommy

as Fabio

as Ruben

as Albert

as Mani

as Oskar

as Julian

as Franz Hilbig

as Eric

as Liocha

as Jimmie Berger

as Silenzio