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Tonio Arango

b. 1963

German actor

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Born 1963. Tonio Arango is a German stage actor, film actor and actor.

Tonio Arango (born 31 January 1963) is a German actor.

Born in East Berlin, Arango is the son of a German mother and a Colombian father and grew up in Wilmersdorf, then part of West Berlin, surrounded by East Germany, with his brother Sascha Arango, now a screenwriter. He went on to train for an acting career at the Max Reinhardt Seminar, a drama school in Vienna, from 1986 to 1990, and left without graduating. He then became a successful stage actor, appearing in Hamburg, Bochum, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Zürich, and Vienna.

In the Oskar Roehler film No Place to Go (2000) Arango played Ronald alongside Hannelore Elsner. In 2007, he had his first notable television role as a Nazi lawyer, Heinrich von Gernstorff, in March of Millions, with Maria Furtwängler.

Selected appearances Back to Square One (1994) as Banker No Place to Go (2000) as Ronald March of Millions (2007) as Count Gernstorff Der Kriminalist (2007) "Totgeschwiegen" Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei: Highway Maniac (2000) as Jochen 'Joe' Fischer Buddenbrooks (2008) as Kistenmaker SOKO Wismar: Spieglein, Spieglein (2010) as Tom Dahlmann Cologne P.D.: Waschen, schneiden, töten (2011) as Jesco Brandt Shakespeares letzte Runde (2016) as Othello Cologne P.D.: Der Mann mit der Geige (2017) as Dr Felix Dambrosy SOKO Wismar: Die Freuden des Alters (2017) as Dr Alexander Immel Großstadtrevier: Der Master (2018) as Sky Masterssohn Spy City (2020) as August Froben The Phoenician Scheme (2025) as Assassin #1 (Desert)

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Who is Tonio Arango?

German actor

When was Tonio Arango born?

Tonio Arango was born on 31 January 1963 in Berlin.

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Tonio Arango is a stage actor, film actor and actor.

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Tonio Arango is German.

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· Wikipedia: Tonio Arango

· Wikidata: Q1452717

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