Michael Koch(II)
- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Michael Koch is a young Swiss actor who received his training at the
Actor's Academy at the "Junges Theater Basel", in Switzerland. Some of
his many theater credits include the leading role in "Playboy of the
Western World", featured at the Theaterspektakel in Zürich. He also
played in "Die Schaukel", a theater play which won the 2001 Jury Prize
and Audience Award at the Impulse Off-Theater Festival, and was invited
to the prestigious Vienna Festwochen in 2002. His notable debut in
cinema was in the motion picture "Achtung, Fertig, Charlie!" ("Ready,
Steady, Charlie!"). A Swiss movie which became, during its 8 weeks of
theater projection in Switzerland, the most successful film for years
to be released in the country. It was nominated for the 2004 Swiss Film
Prize.
