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- Matthias Hues was born on Valentine's Day in Waltrop, Germany, to the late Dr. Josef Hues and Maria Humperdinck Hues who still resides in Germany. Maria is the niece of Engelbert Humperdinck, composer of the opera Hansel and Gretel.
Matthias was very involved in sports from an early age on. By the time he was 19 he was part of the team that won the German pentathlon championship in Hannover and he later became Germany's hopeful in track and field. He also took up martial arts due to his ability to move extremely fast for his 6'5" height and 250-pound weight.
After graduating from school, Matthias moved to Paris to fulfill his early dream of entering Hotel management. Once there he joined one of the most prestigious health clubs in Paris, which had just been bombarded with the new Jane Fonda aerobic exercise program from the US. Matthias recognized an opportunity when he saw one, then and after returning to Germany he gave up his idea of going into Hotel management and instead opened two health clubs, flying in aerobic teachers from the USA.
It was during that time when he became obsessed with America and the American way of life, and due to his spectacular physique and bigger-than-life appearance and personality, it wasn't long before some people suggested that he should try to enter the entertainment industry, so he sold his clubs and boarded a plane to Los Angeles.
He immediately joined Gold's Gym in Venice, California, the mecca of bodybuilding and entertainment personalities. Within a few weeks Derek Barton, a former Hollywood stuntman, and formerly one of Gold's managing directors, received a frantic call from a producer who had just lost Jean-Claude Van Damme for his movie and needed someone to replace him immediately. Derek didn't hesitate to send Matthias to test for the role, and Matthias managed to convince the producers to give him the part, despite having no acting experience whatsoever. The movie, No Retreat, No Surrender 2 (1987), was a moderate success, and opened the door for Matthias to make more films.
He established himself quickly as a powerhouse in the action genre and began appearing in more films, his most successful to date being Dark Angel (1990). Over the years he recognized that his outstanding physique and size would not always be a plus in his acting career, so if needed he would reshape his look, dropping up to 40 pounds at times for various roles, and he began studying with some of the industry's best acting and speech coaches.
Matthias played a variety of roles in his films, from a gladiator turned private investigator in Age of Treason (1993) to an aging hit-man in Finding Interest (1995) to a bumbling idiot trying to kidnap a rich kid in Alone in the Woods (1996) to a dancing lion tamer in Big Top Pee-wee (1988). He also played a Klingon general in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). Matthias is one of the few foreign actors who managed to loose his accent to the extent that many people in his own country don't even know that he is from Germany.
Matthias recently began writing and producing. He is set to direct and produce his first full feature film; a spy thriller to be shot in Frankfurt and Rome. - Actress
Jenny Bach was born on 19 October 1987 in Waltrop, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. She is an actress, known for Mila (2015), In aller Freundschaft (1998) and Rosamunde Pilcher (1993).- Yorck Polus was born on 16 November 1970 in Waltrop, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Johannes Knittel was born on 11 August 1910 in Waltrop, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Musterknaben (1959), Der Fackelträger (1957) and Der Arzt von Bothenow (1961). He died on 3 January 1989 in Berlin, Germany.- Attended market school in Ickern, graduated from Ernst-Barlach-Gymnasium in 1990. 1990 to 1991 military service in Pinneberg, Delmenhorst and Goch. Subsequently studied economics in Osnabrück and regional planning, history, political science and sociology in Essen.
Worked as a research assistant for a member of the Bundestag and a member of the European Parliament. Tour guide at various industrial-cultural sites in the Ruhr region.
Member of BUND, IG BCE, AWO, the German-Austrian miners' association and Schalke 04, among others. 2001 to 2005 honorary judge at the administrative court of Gelsenkirchen, 2004 to 2005 deputy chairman of the police advisory board police headquarters Recklinghausen. Member of the Board of Directors of Sparkasse Vest Recklinghausen.
Joined the SPD in 1991, since 1992 member of the Ickern local association executive committee, member of the city association executive committee, sub-district executive committee and district executive committee of the Jusos, since 2002 chairman of the Castrop-Rauxel city association and member of the Westphalia regional executive committee, since 2000 member of the SPD federal party council. Since 1994, expert citizen in committees of the Castrop-Rauxel City Council; since 2004, member of the Castrop-Rauxel City Council, where he was deputy parliamentary group chairman from 2004 to 2005; from 2004 to 2005, member of the Recklinghausen District Council.
Member of the Bundestag since 2005. - Nadine Rennack was born in 1983 in Waltrop, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is an actress, known for Lady Pochoir (2010), Inga Lindström (2004) and Alles was zählt (2006).
- Norbert Brockmeyer was born on 18 March 1952 in Waltrop, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.