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Samuel Streiff’s Website

Biography

Samuel Streiff is a Swiss actor and speaker. He spent his childhood in London and in Walchwil, Switzerland. He studied acting at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Zurich from 1995–1998. His acting career began with a permanent engagement at the Theater St. Gallen from 1999–2001. This was followed by a permanent engagement at the Deutsches Theater in Göttingen from 2001–2004. He has been a freelance actor since 2004.

Samuel Streiff has also appeared in front of the camera for film and television since 2013. He gained fame between 2013 and 2019 with the crime series «Der Bestatter» in the role of the Aargau commissioner Reto Dörig.

Samuel’s favorite…

Film

  • Brazil  Terry Gilliam (1985)
  • Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock (1958)
  • Satte Farben vor Schwarz – Sophie Heldman (2010)

Music

  • Nature Boy – Nat King Cole (1948)
  • It’s a Shame – The Spinners (1970)
  • Butterflöigä – Nativ (2018)

TV programme

  • Echo der Zeit

Photocredits (c) Benjamin Hofer

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