Philippe Brenninkmeyer

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Philippe Brenninkmeyer
Born (1964-11-03) 3 November 1964 (age 59)
Occupation Actor

Philippe Brenninkmeyer (born 3 November 1964) is a Dutch actor. In Germany he is known as Philipp Brenninkmeyer.

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Biography

Brenninkmeyer was born in Wimbledon, London. He is a member of the German-Dutch Brenninkmeijer family which founded the clothing store chain C&A. Brenninkmeyer attended boarding schools in Brighton, Meerbusch/Düsseldorf, the Aloisiuskolleg in Bonn, and Switzerland. He then worked for C&A in Cologne before deciding to become an actor.

He studied at the William Esper Studio in New York City from 1997–1999, where he appeared in productions of Macbeth and King Lear with the Frog & Peach Theater. Brenninkmeyer worked with the theatre company "Theatre Tribe" in Los Angeles, California in 2004. He has also studied theater in London, where he performed in the title role of Woyzeck at the Etcetera Theatre.

Brenninkmeyer first achieved success in Germany with the role of hotel manager Christian Dolbien in the German television series girl friends – Freundschaft mit Herz. He has also appeared in several other German shows and telemovies, as well as had supporting roles on the American shows Sex and the City , Law & Order , and Guiding Light . For the American comedy troupe Broken Lizard, Brenninkmeyer has played a Swinging German car thief in Super Troopers , a German beer tournament referee in Beerfest and a perturbed diner in The Slammin' Salmon . Brenninkmeyer starred as an American businessman in the German-Singapore movie House of Harmony opposite the Singaporean film star Fann Wong. He also appeared in the 2008 episode "The Jet Set" of Mad Men .

The actor speaks Dutch, English, French, and German. Brenninkmeyer currently has homes in Los Angeles and Berlin (Germany) and is married to the American actress Tara Lynn Orr.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1998 Breathe Safely Chester De'ath "The Cripple Crusader"
1999 Watershed Lawyer
1999 Jane Maximillian
2000 Striplings in the Night Upset ManShort
2000 Entourage The Rock Star
2001 Super Troopers German Man
2003 Strategy of Seduction MaxTV movie
2004 The Cradle Will Fall Dr. Edgar HighleyTV movie
2005 House of Harmony Richard BarclayTV movie
2006 Choking Man Dutch Man
2006 Beerfest Herr Referee
2008 Love a Dream Charles HamiltonTV movie
2009 The Slammin' Salmon King Crab Customer
2009 30 Karat Liebe Percy van der WaltTV movie
2009 Detektiv wider Willen Wolf BernheimerTV movie
2010 Im Schatten des Pferdemondes Dr. Eric GustavsonTV movie
2010 Days of Forgiveness Gray SheridanTV movie
2010 Love Shack Oliver Snowden-Hicks
2010 All Alone Daniel
2012 The Babymakers Dr. Vickery
2012 I Heart Shakey Mattias Ober
2013 RockBarnes: The Emperor in You Mediator
2013 Dark Circles Michael
2014 Seitensprung Dr. HansenTV movie
2014 Reasonable Doubt DA Jones
2014 Bis Gleich FatherShort
2015 He Said CreightonShort
2015 The Unforgiven Mr. BlackShort
2016 Zazy Maximillian Berg
2016 Crossing Fences Captain Harold
2024 The Last Front Maximilian Von Rauch

TV series

YearTitleRoleNotes
1991 Screen One BartenderSeries 3 Episode "Ex" (uncredited) [1]
1999 Guiding Light MartinUnknown episodes
1999 Sex and the City BartenderS2 E11 "Evolution"
1999-2000 As the World Turns CarterE01.11142

E01.11229

2002 Law and Order Andrew SkinnerS12 E23 "Oxymoron"
2002-2003 Love, Lies, Passions Robert Fox
2002-2007 Girl friends – Freundschaft mit Herz Christian Dolbien
2002-2011 Rosamunde Pilcher Paul Gilmore & RobertS1 E40 "Bis ans Ende der Welt" as Robert

S1 E91 "Gefährliche Brandung" as Paul Gilmore

2005 Kanzleramt Patrik SheehanS1 E07 "Schattenkrieger"
2007 Stubbe - Von Fall zu Fall Professor HardenbergS1 E31 "Schmutzige Geschäfte"
2008 Im Tal der wilden Rosen Henry CastletonS3 E02 "Fluss der Liebe"
2008 Mad Men WillyS2 E11 "The Jet Set"
2008-2013 Inga Lindström Marcus Hansen & Kristian NordenS5 E03 "Sommer der Entscheidung"

S11 E02 "Herz aus Eis"

2008-2015 Those Damn Canadians Gunther Lipshitz
2009 CSI: Miami Clay BennettS8 E06 "Dude, Where's My Groom?"
2010 Undercovers KarlS1 E03 "Devices"
2011 Das Traumschiff Kai BrücknerS1 E64 "Bora Bora"
2013 Ein Fall für zwei Lars DiefenbachS32 E05 "Schöner Sterben"
2013 Jimmy Kimmel Live! AnnouncerE10.356
2014 Stuttgart Homicide Klaus SchatzschneiderS5 E24 "Die Tote auf dem Eis"
2014 Dr. Klein Henry von HelmeckeS1 E06 "Dicke Luft"
2014 NCIS Dapper Don & Alberto VelezS12 E09 "Grounded"
2015 Tatort Christian RanstedtS1 E943 "Der Himmel ist ein Platz auf Erden"
2015 NCIS: Los Angeles Wayne MorrisS7 E08 "The Long Goodbye"
2016 Heldt Jürgen BollS4 E06 "Bochum Singen und Sterben"
2016 Mondays Creepy KyleS1 E01 "That Time When I Leaned In"

S1 E08 "That Time When Kyle Gave Me the Creeps"

Video games

YearTitleRoleNotes
2009 Wanted: Weapons of Fate UnknownVoice

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References

  1. "Screen One" Ex (TV Episode 1991) , retrieved 21 July 2017