Hailing from Heggen in Finnentrop and raised in West Berlin's Märkisches Viertel, Andreas M. Schmidt first entered the arts as a singer and guitarist with the 1980s rock group Lillies große Liebe before transitioning to acting with his debut in the 1987 film Bang! You're Dead!. Over a three-decade span he amassed more than 130 screen credits and also worked as a theatre director. His performances…
