Cast & creator

Joel Basman

1990-01-23 (age 36) Zürich, Switzerland Website IMDb

Best known for Scene of the Crime, Scene of the Crime, Scene of the Crime

Joel Basman (born 23 January 1990) is a Swiss actor. Basman was born in Zurich, Switzerland, to a Swiss Christian mother and an Israeli-Jewish father, both of whom were tailors in the Swiss fashion industry. He grew up in the neighborhood of Aussersihl and was raised bilingual, speaking Swiss-German and Hebrew. He has one older sister who resides in Israel. In 2004 he started his career and played a bold teenager named Zizou for the weekly soap opera Lüthi und Blanc. In 2007 director Tobias Ineichen gave the main part to Joel for his film Jimmie. There he played an autistic boy. In February 2008 he got the prize Shooting Star for his part as a Russian teenager on the film Luftibus, written by director Dominque de Rivaz. In September 2008 Joel received the Schweizer Fernsehpreis (Swiss TV-Prize) in the category film. In October 2008 he got the prize for the best main part from Cinema Tous Ecrans. At the Schauspielhaus Zürich Joel Basman acted 2003 for a youth-theatre project. In 2004 and 2005 he played with students, who were at their final project. He finished his studies at the"European Film Actor School" in October 2008. In 2012 Basman got a part as Bertel in the three-piece TV film Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter (Our mothers, our fathers). He also played Pascal in the Swiss TV-film Ziellos (Aimless). Joel Basman played as Sebastien Leclercq in a game called ‘Late Shift’ in 2016. In 2018, Basman played the lead role in Wolkenbruch's Wondrous Journey Into the Arms of a Shiksa, picked up by Netflix. Source: Article "Joel Basman" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Also known as: Йоель Басман

Movies

film credits

Series

television credits

Career

1951–2026 · acting roles

Credit score

6.1

average across scored titles

Signature credits

Known for

Ordered by popularity

Mike

2004

Series

★ 6.0

German Film Award

Self

1951

Series

Aeschbacher

Self

2001

Series

★ 4.0

G&G - Gesichter und Geschichten

Self

Joel Basman

Known for

Scene of the Crime

Scene of the Crime

Scene of the Crime

Scene of the Crime

Scene of the Crime

Filmography (72)

Scene of the Crime

Scene of the Crime

Scene of the Crime

Scene of the Crime

Scene of the Crime

The Old Fox

Homeland

Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police

Abendschau

Polizeiruf 110

SOKO Wismar

German Film Award

Aeschbacher

G&G - Gesichter und Geschichten

The King's Man

Papillon

Generation War

The Monuments Men

Rosa Roth

Schawinski

Kafka

The Colony

Hanna

Clash of Futures (1918-1939)

A Hidden Life

Chess Story

Kursk

Land of Mine

Der Überfall

The Shadowers

Stella. A Life.

Adventures of a Mathematician

Ich und die Anderen

Puppylove

KaDeWe

The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch

The Working Man

Bye Bye Germany

Sennentuntschi: Curse of the Alps

We Are Young. We Are Strong.

Head Burst

Wacked..!

Breakout

Paula

Lubo

Picco

The Girl with the Leica

Caged Birds

Mein Schüler, seine Mutter & ich

Don't Be A Stranger

As We Were Dreaming

Keep Rollin'

Thousand Oceans

Ziellos

Once Upon a Time in Indian Country

Monte Verità

Amnesia

Jimmie

Dear Thomas

Cannabis - Probieren geht über Regieren

Rosannas Tochter

Nussknacker und Mausekönig

Songs of Love and Hate

Summer Outside

Late Shift

Chris the Swiss

Luftbusiness

The Swiss Miss Massacre

Löwenzahn - Das Kinoabenteuer

Dawn

Happy New Year

Mikado