Acting

Siegfried Terpoorten

Profession
Acting
Born
September 15, 1971 · München, Bayern, Germany

Biography

Siegfried "Sigi" Terpoorten (born September 15, 1971, in Munich) is a German actor. After completing an apprenticeship as an electronics technician at Siemens, Siegfried Terpoorten pursued his acting training at the University of Music and Performing Arts Hamburg and at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich. His first theater engagements took him to the Schauspielhaus Hamburg under the artistic direction of Frank Baumbauer, and later—together with Stefan Bachmann—to the Schauspiel Basel. Terpoorten gained his first on-camera experience at the Hamburg Film Studies program under the direction of Hark Bohm. During this time, he collaborated with, among others, Kilian Riedhof and Marcus Hägg. He became known to a wider audience through the ARD television series *4 gegen Z*. Further television appearances followed in series such as *Tatort*, *SOKO Leipzig*, and *Ein Fall für zwei*, as well as in the two-part miniseries *Eine Liebe in Saigon*, alongside Désirée Nosbusch. Terpoorten also appeared in feature films, including *Der Schuh des Manitu* and *Erkan und Stefan*. From 2006 to 2007, he played the lead role of Chief Inspector Mark Brenner in the Sat.1 crime series *Stadt, Land, Mord*. In 2010, he founded a film production company in Zurich and has since focused increasingly on his work as a producer. Terpoorten is married to actress Barbara Terpoorten-Maurer and has two children.

Known for

Manitou's Shoe poster
Manitou's Shoe
Film · 2001 · ★ 6.8
(T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1 poster
(T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1
Film · 2004 · ★ 6.2
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police poster
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
Series · 1996 · ★ 6.6
Scene of the Crime poster
Scene of the Crime
Series · 1970 · ★ 6.2
Buddy poster
Buddy
Film · 2013 · ★ 6.1
Erkan and Stefan poster
Erkan and Stefan
Film · 2000 · ★ 4.6
Mary, Queen of Scots poster
Mary, Queen of Scots
Film · 2013 · ★ 5.1
Hubert ohne Staller poster
Hubert ohne Staller
Series · 2011 · ★ 6.4
Die Rosenheim-Cops poster
Die Rosenheim-Cops
Series · 2002 · ★ 6.2
Three Quarter Moon poster
Three Quarter Moon
Film · 2011 · ★ 5.7
Benjamin the Elephant poster
Benjamin the Elephant
Film · 2019 · ★ 4.5
Leipzig Homicide poster
Leipzig Homicide
Series · 2001 · ★ 5.9

Filmography