He is best known for his work on The Devil Wears Prada, Marry Me and the movies directed by Robert Schwentke, such as Flightplan, The Time Traveler's Wife and The Divergent Series: Insurgent.
[1] At the age of 16, he moved to the U.S. with his family, when his father began working on American films such as After Hours.
He returned to Germany in his adulthood to make his own name in his father's profession, debuting in episodes of the television show, Alles außer Mord, then in 1996 with Sandman.
He returned to the U.S. seven years later to shoot episodes of Sex and the City.
Later he reunited with David Frankel, one of the Sex and the City directors, for The Devil Wears Prada.