Dirk Martens is an actor from Germany who began his career on the stage, but achieved the greatest success and recognition in television series. He now continues to actively star in diverse film projects.
Biography of Dirk Martens
The future theater and film actor was born on July 2, 1964 in the German city of Mülheim an der Ruhr. At an early age, he wanted to become an actor, so he decided to study acting at the theater schools of Berlin and Dusseldorf.
In addition to the cinema, he played on the stages of theaters in Dusseldorf, Zurich, Munich and Hamburg. In parallel, he began to build a career in the film industry.
The first attempts to get into the cinema began in the 80s of the twentieth century, but real popularity came to him in the beginning of the 90s, when he began to actively appear in television series.
Dirk Martens: movies
To date, in the professional piggy bank of the actor, there are 103 works in various projects, mainly series and full-length films. He continues to act actively and now. Only in 2018, he played 4 roles in different projects.
The most prominent films with his participation are considered to be the fantastic action movie of 2002 "Equilibrium", where he played the role of Gate Garth, and the American military drama "Conspiracy" of 2001, which tells about the Second World War.
You can also highlight the following works: "Til Uhlenshpiegel", "Eric and Otto" and "Nobody except you." The actor "specializes" in roles in military and historical dramas, in roles in criminal television series.
It was thanks to the TV series that he gained worldwide fame. The most prominent multi-part projects starring Dirk Martens are the German crime action movie Special Forces Cobra, the Russian-Ukrainian military series Ballad of a Bomber, and the legendary Austrian-German television series Commissar Rex.
Interesting Facts
Dirk Martens is actively starring in Russian films and TV shows. For example, in his track record there are such Russian works: the 2012 sports drama “Match” with Sergey Bezrukov in the title role, the military picture about World War II “The White Tiger” and the debut work of Konstantin Khabensky “Sobibor”, released in 2018. Dirk Martens starred in Beckman’s tape.
In 2018, he was invited to one of the key roles in the military series "Lost" under the leadership of Andrei Malyukov. His colleagues on the set are M. Porechenkov and V. Panfilova.
Few people know, but the actor played the role of Tommy in the spin-off series "Commissioner Rex" called "Stockinger". He appeared on television in 1996-1997. As the name implies, the series tells the story of one of the main characters of the first season of "Commissioner Rex" teammate Richard Moser named Ernst Stockinger.
Conclusion
Dirk Martens is one of the most prominent German actors who managed to build a successful career not only in his homeland, but also abroad. He often appears in American and Russian films. Severe, brutal appearance and personal interest push him to star mainly in military and criminal dramas.
During his career, he played a huge number of roles, but he does not intend to stop there. Dirk Martens continues to actively act in diverse projects, embodying characters with difficult fates and characters on the screen, and he can equally well perform both an inveterate scoundrel and a positive character with a difficult fate. Thanks to his talent and natural charisma, he managed to fall in love with a large number of film enthusiasts, so his fan base is quite large and continues to grow. It is surprising that in Russia its popularity is no less, and perhaps even more than in its native Germany.