Tonio Arango

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

Tonio Arango
Born	January 31, 1963 Berlin, East Germany
Nationality	German
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1993-present

Born in 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, Zurich, 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.[1]

Selected appearances

• Back to Square One (1994) as Banker
• No Place to Go (2000) as Ronald
• March of Millions (2007) as Count Gernstorff[2]
• 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

Notes

1. TONIO ARANGO ALS HEINRICH GRAF VON GERNSTORFF at daserste.de
2. Axel Bangert, The Nazi Past in Contemporary German Film: Viewing Experiences of Intimacy and Immersion (Boydell & Brewer, 2014), p. 153

External links

• Tonio Arango at IMDb
• arango.de (official site)
• English Interview from Tonio Arango at YouTube