Damian Hardung

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Damian Hardung
Born (1998-09-07) 7 September 1998 (age 25) [1]
Cologne, Germany
OccupationActor
Years active2010–present

Damian Hardung (born 7 September 1998) is a German actor.

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Early life

Born on 7 September 1998, [2] Hardung is from the city of Cologne. [3] A keen footballer, he was part of the youth academy at SC Fortuna Köln. [4] At the age of 14, he went to New York on a scholarship for gifted students. [5] He later studied medicine. [6]

Career

Hardung made his acting debut at the age of 12 with a couple of short movies such as Der Magische Umhang and Die Könige der Straße. Further screen appearances followed in Transpapa, Unter Frauen, and Die Holzbaronin [2] He had his first leading role portraying Thomas in 2013's Clara and the Secret of the Bears. [7]

Between 2015 and 2017 he played Jonas Neumann in all three series of the VOX television series Club der roten Bänder . [8]

In 2018, he had a lead role in The Most Beautiful Girl in the World , a modern-day German comedy adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac . [9] He also appeared in the alien-invasion series Spides. [10]

In 2019, he played Adso in the RAI television show The Name of the Rose alongside Rupert Everett and John Turturro. [11] That year, he also appeared in the German Netflix series How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) as Daniel Riffert. [12] He reprised the role in the 2022 spin-off series Buba. [13]

In 2023 he played Winnie Wolf in the television series Our Wonderful Years. [14] That year, he was cast in a lead role in a television adaptation of the Mona Kasten bestselling novel Save Me. [3] That series was broadcast in 2024 on Amazon Prime Video entitled Maxton Hall — The World Between Us . [15] It was renewed for a second series in May 2024. [16]

Personal life

His brother Leon also studied medicine and the pair were among those vaccinating the German public during the COVID-19 pandemic. [17] He has campaigned with Greenpeace against climate change, visiting Antarctica in 2022. [18]

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