Tonio Arango

German actor

Tonio Arango
Born	(1963-01-31) 31 January 1963 (age 61) Berlin, East Germany
Nationality	German
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1993-present

Tonio Arango (born 31 January 1963) is a German actor.

Born in Berlin, Arango is the son of a German mother and a Colombian father and grew up in Wilmersdorf, then part of West Berlin, surrounded by East Germany, with his brother Sascha Arango, now a screenwriter. He went on to train for an acting career at the Max Reinhardt Seminar, a drama school in Vienna, from 1986 to 1990, and left without graduating. He then became a successful stage actor, appearing in Hamburg, Bochum, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Zürich, and Vienna.

In the Oskar Roehler film No Place to Go (2000) Arango played Ronald alongside Hannelore Elsner. In 2007, he had his first notable television role as a Nazi lawyer, Heinrich von Gernstorff, in March of Millions, with Maria Furtwängler.^[1]

Selected appearances

Back to Square One (1994) as Banker
No Place to Go (2000) as Ronald
March of Millions (2007) as Count Gernstorff^[2]
Der Kriminalist (2007) "Totgeschwiegen"
Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei: Highway Maniac (2000) as Jochen 'Joe' Fischer
Buddenbrooks (2008) as Kistenmaker
SOKO Wismar: Spieglein, Spieglein (2010) as Tom Dahlmann
Cologne P.D.: Waschen, schneiden, töten (2011) as Jesco Brandt
Shakespeares letzte Runde (2016) as Othello
Cologne P.D.: Der Mann mit der Geige (2017) as Dr Felix Dambrosy
SOKO Wismar: Die Freuden des Alters (2017) as Dr Alexander Immel
Großstadtrevier: Der Master (2018) as Sky Masterssohn
Spy City (2020) as August Froben
The Phoenician Scheme (TBA) as TBA

References

^ TONIO ARANGO ALS HEINRICH GRAF VON GERNSTORFF at daserste.de
^ Axel Bangert, The Nazi Past in Contemporary German Film: Viewing Experiences of Intimacy and Immersion (Boydell & Brewer, 2014), p. 153