![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Biography:Born to Austrian actors Hans Brenner and Monika Bleibtreu, Moritz Bleibtreu started acting at the age of six. He traveled the U.S. and Paris as a teenager before becoming a prominent German actor in television and film. After a few roles in productions with his mother, he appeared in the drama Einfach nur Liebe (Simply Love) and the comedy Stadtgespräch (Talk of the Town). In 1997, he earned his first major acclaim as the comedic gangster Abdul in Knockin' On Heaven's Door. The next year he made his international breakthrough as Franka Potente's slightly dim boyfriend Manni in Run Lola Run. With his sweetly sensitive looks, Bleibtreau continued playing mostly nice guys in German comedies and dramas: the idiot brother in Luna Papa, a hustling DJ in Fandango, and a schoolteacher in Im Juli. He appeared in four films in 2001, including his first American production, The Invisible Circus, and the goofy... Full Biography
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