Sergej Moya (born 4 January 1988 in East Berlin) is a German actor, screenwriter and director. He won the Undine Award for Best Young Leading Actor in the 2005 film Keller – Teenage Wasteland.

Early life Moya was born in Prenzlauer Berg, East Berlin. He went to six different schools including the Berlin State Ballet School, and went to school in the US for half a year in 2005. Moya started his film career during his early teens, while at comprehensive school in Mitte, Berlin. He left school before Grade 10, due to having to travel and stay away for periods of time to make films, such as "The Angel Tonight" in Munich for 14 days in 2006. He received a scholarship from the Berenberg Bank Foundation in 2006 to further his acting development. He went to a workshop at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York.

Acting career Sergei Moya's first acting role aged 12, was in 2001 in the German movie Female 2 Seeks Happy End with Ben Becker. There followed a small role in the remake of the Erich Kästner 's novel Emil and the Detectives. The acting breakthrough came in 2003 alongside Götz George and Klaus J. Behrendt in the multi-awarded (Emmy and a Grimme Award,) WDR television movie Mein Vater. In 2005, he once again acted beside Götz George in a Schimanski episode.

In the Sat.1 series, he played a case for the Old Fox, as the son of Walter Sittler and then in the ARD series Commissario Laurenti, he was alongside of Henry Hübchen. For his role in Keller - Teenage Wasteland, Moya received the 2006 Undine Award for best actor in a feature film. In 2006, he was next to Uwe Ochsenknecht in Der beste Lehrer der Welt. In 2007, he was nominated for a Golden Romy as "Most Popular Shooting Star". Moya has no degree and has been focusing on acting since the beginning of 2006. He has appeared in several TV series such as Polizeiruf 110, Commissario Laurenti, Der Alte and several Tatort episodes.

Career as a director and screenwriter He founded a film company, Von Fiessbach Film, with his girlfriend and producer Julia Lischinski, and friend Sascha Pollack.

Since 2009, Moya has also worked as a director and author. His short film Hollywood Drama was part of the competition at the film festival Max Ophüls Preis 2010 and was shown in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino series of the Berlinale 2010. His film project Hotel Desire, an erotic film with Clemens Schick and Saralisa Volm, was funded by crowdfunding. The sum of 170,000 euros was collected before the official deadline of 80 days. Pressemitteilung der Produktionsfirma teamWorx vom 19. August 2011 The later found the budget of $241,000 to complete the film.

In 2014, the 26-year-old Moya directed a TV film, about actor Jan Josef Liefers, Jan Josef Liefers - soundtrack of my life on the MDR channel . Tatjana Kerschbaumer noted in Tagesspiegel about the film, "Rarely has it been possible to summarize the biography of a person, music history and politics in such a condensed and anything but tenuous way".

Awards 2005 - (Austrian Media Prize) Undine Award for Best Young Leading Actor in the film Keller – Teenage Wasteland 2008 - "Best Actor" at the Madrid Mostoles International Film Festival 2009 - Moya received the Max Ophüls Award for "Best Newcomer"

Filmography

Film Year Title Role Notes2001 Female 2 Seeks Happy Endill little boy Emil and the DetectivesFlügel 2005 Out of HandSebastianalso known as Keller - Teenage Wasteland2006 Der Engel heute Nacht (or "The Angel Tonight")(Short)The CloudJannes (credited as Sergej Moja)2007 Evil Images Jonas(Short)2008 Kronos. End and Beginning Kronosoriginal german title Kronos. Ende und AnfangDer zweite Bruder Tobias(Short) 2009 Jedem das SeineMilosFreunde von früher Sunny aged 17also known as Les Amis du passé2010 ShahadaDaniel2017 The InvisiblesLudwig Lichtwitz

Television Year Title Role Notes2003 Mein VaterOliver Esser(TV movie) 2003-2013 Tatort (TV series) Philipp Rabe 2003 / Mika Mende 2007 / Mischa Celinski 2009 Joachim Hess / Tobias Rothgerber 2010 / Konstantin 2013TV series, 5 episodes2004 Die Farben der Liebe Alex(TV movie)2004-2007 Ein Fall für den FuchsLukas KernerTV series, 6 episodes2005 Schimanski DavidTV series, 1 episodeIm Namen des Gesetzes Pit DaublerTV series, 1 episode2006 Ein Fall für zweiTobias von KleistTV series, 1 episodeDer beste Lehrer der Welt Igor(TV movie)2006-2009 Commissario Laurenti Marco LaurentiTV series, 5 episodes2007 Der Kriminalist Sascha RohrbachTV series, 1 episode2007-2012 Polizeiruf 110Jürgen BaumannTV series, 2 episodes2008 Rosa Roth Sascha BremerTV series, 1 episodeStille PostNiklas / Andrea's student(TV movie)2008-2014 Leipzig Homicide Sven Kaspari 2008/ Heiko Bender 2014TV series, 2 episodes2009 The Old FoxMarkus FletzingerTV series, 1 episode2010 Des Kaisers neue KleiderJakob(TV movie)Lutter (TV series) Lukas TaschenbeckTV series, 1 episode2011 FugitivesFrank KorbachTV series, 2 episodes2012 Der Dicke Björn MatuschekTV series, 1 episodeCologne P.D. Mick GebertTV series, 1 episodeStolberg Marcel KaminskiTV series, 1 episodeThe TowerEzzo Rohde(TV movie)2013 Beste FreundinnenBastian Ellermann(TV movie)Letzte Spur BerlinTom HarthofTV series, 1 episode2014 München 7KubaTV series, 1 episodeHeiter bis tödlich - HauptstadtrevierAdamTV series, 1 episode2017 Die ChefinTobias WeidenbachTV series, 1 episode2018 WolfslandClemens OlmützerTV series, 1 episode

(as) Director Year Title Notes2010 Die blaue Periode ('The Blue Period')(Short, written and directed by Moya), premiered at the Max Ophüls Film Festival Hollywood Drama(Short, written and directed by Moya), was screened at the Berlinale2011 Hotel Desire (Short, written and directed by Moya), 2015 Stefanie Heinzmann's song In the End(music Video short)2016The Huntingtans: Chewing Gum and Love Affairs (Short, written and directed by Moya) won 'Best Casting' at Berlin Fashion Film Festival.

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