After attending acting classes in Munich, Hamburg and Zürich, he got his first stage-roles at German and Swiss theatres.
He also got the lead role in the short film Der Zauberregen alongside German actress Alexandra Kamp.
In 2010 he starred in the feature film Simplify your soul for the screenwriter and director Markus Boestfleisch.
By 2012 he also started being cast in international productions, most notably Andrey Malyukov's historical World War II soccer-drama Match and Fedor Bondarchuk's 3D-production Stalingrad, which was Russia's official entry for the foreign-language Oscars in 2013.
In 2021, Philippe Reinhardt starred in the 6th film of the ARD series Die Diplomatin, entitled Mord in St. Petersburg, in the role of a Russian spy.