Born to Croatian guest-worker parents in West Berlin, the actor honed his craft at the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg between 1994 and 1998, while also performing on stage with the Berliner Ensemble and the Kleist Theater. He entered German television and cinema in the mid-1990s, appearing in numerous crime series and films, and earned the Best Actor prize at the 2000 Thessaloniki Inter…