Jonathan-Elias Weiske (born in Berlin on 4 February 1996) is a German film and television actor and voice actor.
Jonathan was born in Berlin son of Oliver Betke and Claudia Weiske, an artistic family, with his father being a film/television/theatre actor who had also appeared in musicals in addition to working also a synchronspeecher (voice over) and a photographer. Jonathan's mother also worked as an actress who had appeared amongst others in Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten in the role Elke Opitz. She had also appeared in a number of theater productions in Berlin (in Theater am Kurfürstendamm), Dresden and in Hamburg.
Jonathan started as a child actor at age five. He had his screen debut appearing in the series Herzschlag-Die Retterand two years later in the short film Jesus Christ, directed by U. Preatel. He became well-known through the series Fünf Sterne that ran from 2005 to 2008 on ZDF, where he starting as a 9-year old, he played the character Martin Amann, who after his family faces financial difficulties, moves to Berlin to live with his mother to begin a new live.
Since then he took the lead in many productions, such as Hameln, Dornröschen und der Fluch der siebten Fee, F4LKENB3RG - Mord im Internat and the feature Films Misfit, Allein gegen die Zeit and The Vagabonds. He also made voice overs for popular International TV series like "Beauty in Black", "Heated Rivalry" and "Murdaugh: Death in the Family".
In popular culture Jonathan Elias Weiske voiced over the character "Frodo" for The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest video game (in German Die Abenteuer von Aragorn)
Filmography
Film 2001: Herzschlag – Die Retter as Guido 2003: Jesus Christ as Christian 2005-2008: Fünf Sterne as Martin Amann 2008: Typisch Mann! as Leon 2009: Sind denn alle Männer Schweine? as Niklas Nielsen 2010: Bitte nicht stören as Tim 2011: Mandy will ans Meer 2014: Alkohol? Kenn dein Limit! as Niklas 2015: SOKO Wismar - Gras drüber as Joris Thiel 2015: Alles was zählt as Kevin 2015: Allein gegen die Zeit as Phil 2016: Notruf Hafenkante - Engel as Jonas Ravenstein 2016: Kleidercode as Basti 2016: Der Lehrer as Niklas Hardenberg 2016: Ellas Baby as Gregor 2017: Jannik as Dennis 2017: Respringendo as Max 2017: Der Kriminalist as Krys 2017: Das Pubertier as Paul 2017: Der Lehrer as Niklas Hardenberg 2017: Immigration Game as Yob 2018: AU/RA - Panic Room as Cleaner 2018: Mad Max - Beauty of the Heart as Yob 2018: Notruf Hafenkante as Michail Grigorov 2018: Wake Up Call as Mike 2018: Aimbot as Kai Neumann 2018: Grenzgänger as Joachim "Dschockie" Bergmeister 2018: Misfit - The movie as Justin Himmelmann 2019: Die jungen Ärzte as Viktor Lehmann 2019: Black Forest Witch as Hermann 2019: Circle of Life as Max Schröter 2019: Starnet as Lucas 2019: Leipzig Homicide as Daniel Behrens 2019: Die Wiederkehr as Thorben 2019: A War Poem as Pawel 2020: Unter Uns as Sebastian Hoffmann 2020: Cologne P.D. as Jan-Philip Curtius 2020: Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei as Bennie Kaiser 2020: Jungfernfahrt as Niko 2020: Blutige Anfänger as Kai 2021: Nix Festes as Mateo 2021: Letzte Spur Berlin as Daniel Lamprecht 2022: The Vagabonds as Leon 2023: SOKO Wismar as Finn Borglund 2023: Leipzig Homicide as Max Kette 2024: Schnee im Juni as Leonard 2024: Die Bergretter as Bernd Göbner 2024: Dornröschen und der Fluch der siebten Fee as Prince Torin 2025: Notruf Hafenkante as Jesko Dreyer 2025: Hameln as Sam Mannheimer 2026: Aus der Stille as Ernst 2026: Skogstad as Vaadrim
Voice-over 2009: D.I.E Detektive im Einsatz / Kid's Detectives as Tom 2009: The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest as Frodo 2022: 9-1-1 (TV series) as Frankie 2022: Walker (TV series) as Cole 2022: Arthur, malédiction as Momo 2023: Door Mouse as Mooney 2023: Where Is Anne Frank as Sam 2025: Everybody Still Hates Chris as Jason 2025: Murdaugh: Death in the Family as Kai 2026: Bloodhounds (TV series) as Jae-Myeong 2026: Heated Rivalry as Hayden Pike 2026: If Wishes Could Kill as Min-Soo 2026: Mousetrap (TV series) as Min-Ho 2026: Voicemails for Isabelle as Walter 2026: Our Sticky Love as Gang-Rok 2026: Teach You a Lesson as In-Beom 2026: Beauty in Black as Angel 2026: Crew Girl as Bronson "Baloo" Garner
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