Kai Wiesinger
Birthday: 1966-04-16 | Place of Birth: Hannover, GermanyKai Wiesinger (born April 16, 1966, in Hanover) is a German actor, director, screenwriter, and voice actor for dubbing and audio dramas. He rose to fame in 1992 with the comedy film *Kleine Haie*. Wiesinger made his television debut in the late 1980s on the ZDF program *Aktenzeichen XY … ungelöst*. He achieved his breakthrough in 1992 with the lead role in *Kleine Haie*, for which he—alongside Jürgen Vogel and Gedeon Burkhard—received the Bavarian Film Award. In the years that followed, Wiesinger starred in numerous successful German films, including *Der bewegte Mann*, *Frauen sind was Wunderbares*, and *Stadtgespräch*. He also appeared regularly in historical and dramatic productions, such as *Comedian Harmonists*, *14 Tage lebenslänglich*, and *Nichts als die Wahrheit*, starring alongside Götz George. Wiesinger also took on numerous lead roles in television productions, including *Dresden*, *Die Gustloff*, and the series *Die Anwälte*. In 2014, he portrayed former Federal President Christian Wulff in the TV movie *Der Rücktritt*, for which he received the Bavarian Television Award. Since 2015, he has starred—alongside his partner, Bettina Zimmermann—in the self-developed web series *Der Lack ist ab*, which he also directed. Since 2022, he has also been seen in the title role of the crime series *Dr. Hoffmann*. In addition to his work in front of the camera, Kai Wiesinger is active as a voice actor for dubbing and audio dramas. Among other roles, he voiced a character in the animated film *Das große Krabbeln* (the German dub of *A Bug's Life*) and appeared alongside his then-wife, Chantal de Freitas, in the audio drama series *Bibi Blocksberg*.
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Acting
Role
as Dr. Felix Hoffmann
as Prof. Dr. Theo Rotschild
as Wagner
as Hubertus
as Simon
as Thomas
as Tillmann
as Tom
as Christian Wulff
as Mark Kress
as Dr. Hans-Joachim Kapenheuer
as Eik Meiers
as Jakob Braunstein
as Max Reich
as Werksleiter Wessel
as Alfi Baumer
as Dr. Gerd Ruppert
as Eik Meiers
as König Otto
as Lorenz Thiel
as Alexander
as Kapitän Hellmuth Kehding
as Sebastian Britten
as Michael Fürstenberg
as Michael Lehmann
as Tom Gerling
as Simon Goldberg
as Dr. Wolfgang Schlegel
