Thomas Huber, born in Munich in 1963, is a German actor and translator. He learned acting at the Folkwangschule in Essen-Werden and was part of the ensemble of the Nationaltheater Mannheim from 1989 to 1993. From 1993 he was part of the ensemble of the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus for seven years. From 2005 to 2009 he was an ensemble member at Schauspiel Leipzig. This was followed by ensemble membership at Schauspiel Frankfurt from 2009 to 2016. Thereafter he was in the ensemble at the Residenztheater. He has worked with Karin Beier, David Bösch, Mateja Koležnik, Tina Lanik, Hans Neuenfels, Amélie Niemeyer, Oliver Reese and Michael Thalheimer, among others.
Since the early 1990s, Thomas Huber has also been known as a film and television actor. Among others, he played in television multi-part series such as Dieter Wedel's Der große Bellheim and Der Schattenmann. In 2006 he played the cannibal victim Simon Grobeck in Martin Weisz's Rothenburg.
Huber and his film partner Thomas Kretschmann won the Best Actor category at the South Korean Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (2006), as well as at the Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya (2006).
Huber also works as a translator. Among other things, he has translated Eric Bogosian's play Notes from Underground into German. He also translated Tim Firth's musical Our House from English into German.
Past roles:
- Muzil / Bill in Dem Freund, der mir das Leben nicht gerettet hat