He left school before Grade 10, due to having to travel and stay away for periods of time to make films,[2][3] such as "The Angel Tonight" in Munich for 14 days in 2006.
[2][4] Sergei Moya's first acting role aged 12,[2] was in 2001 in the German movie Female 2 Seeks Happy End with Ben Becker.
The acting breakthrough came in 2003 alongside Götz George and Klaus J. Behrendt in the multi-awarded (Emmy and a Grimme Award,[2]) WDR television movie Mein Vater.
For his role in Keller - Teenage Wasteland, Moya received the 2006 Undine Award for best actor in a feature film.
Tatjana Kerschbaumer noted in Tagesspiegel about the film, "Rarely has it been possible to summarize the biography of a person, music history and politics in such a condensed and anything but tenuous way".