Torben Liebrecht

• Name — Torben Liebrecht • Born — 3 December 1977 • Birthplace — Reinbek, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany • Citizenship — German • Occupation — Actor • Years Active — 1996–present • Website — http: www.torben-liebrecht.de/

Liebrecht starting his acting career as Heiner in Doppelter Einsatz. His first large role came as Karl von Sassnitz in Die Schule am See. He also played Alois in the ITV television drama Monsignor Renard. Among other minor roles, Liebrecht then played Friedrich in the 2002 horror film Deathwatch. The year after, he played Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor in the film Luther, and starred in a minor role in Kevin Spacey's film, Beyond the Sea. In 2005, he played the role of Bernd Steher, a copy shop/pub employee, in the film Rose, and in 2006, plays the role of Marco, a German paparazzo, in the film Eine Krone für Isabell. Next, he played the role of Anton in the German show Verrückt nach Clara, and then as Matz in the crime thriller show Die Patin – Kein Weg zurück. Afterwards he played the lead role of Eddie in Mein Flaschengeist und ich, and then was cast Hannes Wenisch in Das Wunder von Merching. He then played Lennard in the film The King's Surrender. He was then cast as Franz Faber in the Canadian television series X Company, in which he won a Canadian Screen Award for best performance by an actor in a featured supporting role in a dramatic program or series. He also starred as Rolf "The Wolf" Dannenberg in the German miniseries Morgen hör ich auf, and is set to star as Rudolf Dassler in the German biodrama film Adidas vs. Puma: The Brother's Feud. Liebrecht studied film directing at University of Television and Film Munich, and is currently living in Munich. In February 2019, it was announced that Liebrecht was cast in the main role of Colonel Ivan Carrera for the second season of Netflix's science-fiction series, Altered Carbon.

Torben Liebrecht, born in Reinbek in 1977, is recorded as a German actor, screenwriter, and director holding citizenship of Germany. Biographical documentation preserved in English Wikipedia records that Liebrecht undertook his formal academic training at the University of Television and Film Munich, where he studied film directing. Following his studies in Munich, Liebrecht established his residence in the city while working across cinema, television, and screenwriting projects. The available institutional records do not document any surviving manuscript holdings, physical archival collections, or signed correspondence in Liebrecht's hand within public libraries or repository holdings. Furthermore, while structural classification records associate his family background broadly with film directors, the available evidence does not provide verified details regarding specific relatives or further genealogical context beyond this general attribution.

The initial stage of Torben Liebrecht’s professional screen acting career is documented primarily in television broadcasting records and film production credits cited by English Wikipedia. Liebrecht made his initial professional acting appearance playing the character of Heiner in the German television series Doppelter Einsatz. His first major ongoing television role followed shortly thereafter when he was cast as Karl von Sassnitz in the series Die Schule am See. Following these domestic German television engagements, Liebrecht expanded into international multi-part television drama and feature film productions. Liebrecht subsequently secured his initial role in feature-length cinema by portraying the character Friedrich in the 2002 horror film Deathwatch. The available documentation across reference publications records these early appearances as establishing his working repertoire across both German domestic networks and foreign television co-productions. It is not established in the available source evidence whether Liebrecht received formal theatrical stage awards or independent critical notices for these earliest screen roles prior to 2002.