Antoine Monot Jr.

Antoine Monot Jr. (born 22 June 1975 in Rheinbach, West Germany) is a Swiss-German actor and film producer with both German and Swiss citizenship.

After that, Monot exclusively acted on theatre stages until 1996 – at first in the independent scene under the directorship of Volker Lösch, who had left the ensemble of the Theater am Neumarkt Zurich in order to make his director’s debut with Gerettet in 1994.

In 1996, Monot, who until this point had exclusively acted on theatre stages in Switzerland, attempted to make inroads into the German film and television market.

The casting process took more than a year, and after the second round in spring 1998, Monot was accepted to play the role of “Walter” alongside Frank Giering, Florian Lukas and Julia Hummer.

In 2004, he made Der Wixxer (English: The Trixxer) in Prague, together with Bastian Pastewka, Oliver Kalkofe, Olli Dittrich, Anke Engelke and Christoph Maria Herbst.

In 2005, he starred as “Moemme Bief” in Till Franzen’s film debut A Quiet Love [de] at the side of Hanna Schygulla and Dominique Horwitz.

Since 2013, Monot has portrayed the mostly silent salesman “Tech-Nick” in an advertising campaign for the consumer electronics retail chain Saturn[3][4] On 6 September 2014 the thriller Who Am I had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Since 2014, Monot has played the advocate Benjamin “Benni” Hornberg in the TV series Ein Fall für zwei together with Wanja Mues.

In 2015, he took a lead role in the crime series Tatort (episode: Ihr werdet gerichtet), which the broadcasting company SRF produced in Swiss German.

[5] In 1998, Monot founded Creative Artists Management PLC in the course of which he represented actors and actresses from the German-speaking film industry, at first actively as an agent, and then as a consultant to the company from 2000.

He founded Zuckerfilm Limited, headquartered at the Bavaria Film studios in Grünwald near Munich, together with director Daniel Krauss and Franz Meiller in 2009.