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Jonas Nay Biography

Birth Name:Jonas Nay

Birth Place:Lubeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Profession Actor, Composer

Fast Facts

  • Quote: "When I was in school my iPod was filled with '80s songs by Elton John and Billy Joel, while everybody else was listening to hip-hop, I was quite uncool!"
  • Quote: "[On his spoken languages] "I started speaking English in school when I was about 10․ I learned French too, but I've forgotten it all, though I can still understand it․""
  • Quote: "I'm really monogamous in my relationships and it's the most important thing for relationships, to trust, I've been hurt once in a relationship and I don't want to do it to anybody else, so there's no way I could ever cheat․"
  • Received military training, weapon training, martial arts training and handling spy tech for his role in "Deutschland 83․"
  • Plays the piano and is the vocalist in the band Northern Lights
  • Has a scar above his eyebrow, the result of a car accident from his childhood
  • Is a big fan of the Police as well as Sting's solo work

Awards

  • 2011Promotional Award-: winner
  • 2012Adolf Grimme Award-Fiction: winner
  • 2012Günter Strack TV Award-Best Young Actor: winner
  • 2012New Faces Award-Actor: winner
  • 2012Individual Award-Best Actor: winner
  • 2015Bambi-Film - National: nominated
  • 2015Bambi-Best Actor - National: nominated
  • 2015Bavarian TV Award-Best Actor in a Movie Made for Television (Bester Schauspieler - Fernsehspiel/Fernsehfilm): nominated
  • 2016German Film Critics Award-Best Actor (Bester Darsteller): nominated
  • 2016German Television Award-Best Actor (Bester Schauspieler): winner
  • 2016Golden Camera-Best German Actor: nominated
  • 2020Bavarian TV Award-Composing: winner
  • 2022CinEuphoria-Best Supporting Actor - International Competition: nominated