Christian Rudolf

**Christian Rudolf** (born March 9, 1965 in Rathenow) is a German actor, moderator, singer and voice actor.

## Theater and singing

Christian Rudolf grew up in Premnitz near Rathenow. In the 10th grade he founded the band Utopia with school friends in 1981, where he was front man and singer. The amateur band had an official license to play and toured the former GDR in a Robur LO 2000 bus in the early 1980s. From 1986 to 1990 Rudolf studied singing and acting at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin. For his leading role in the musical Nerf - The Colossal Plot, Rudolf received the 1st prize from IG Medien at the German Musical Congress in 1997.

Rudolf has been on stage as a singer of various bands since 1981 and has performed around 1,500 performances to date (2017). In 2001 he appeared together with Helmut Lotti on the ARD show Ein Platz in der Sonne. In addition, Rudolf acted as Falco on his eponymous show.

Christian Rudolf is a fan of the clay stone shard singer Rio Reiser, who died in 1996. Rudolf toured with his Hamburg band Komitee für Unterhaltungkunst through Germany, which he founded in 2003, and interpreted Reiser's songs, among other things during an appearance on the 20th anniversary of his death in 2016 in Hamburg.

## Watch TV

Rudolf is known to German television audiences through a variety of guest roles in television series such as Die Rettungsflieger, Doppelte Einsatz, Der Bulle von Tölz, Die Cleveren, Polizeiiruf 110, SK Kölsch and Großstadtrevier. He also played supporting and guest roles in many German soap operas such as good times, bad times, forbidden love, among us and that's life! The Wagenfelds. In the Marienhof 2002 series and in Sturm der Liebe from 2005 to 2006, he played leading roles; in both series a role as ambiguous. From 2008 to 2011 Christian Rudolf played the role of "Jimi Stadler", a craftsman and staunch family man on Lindenstrasse. In 2017 and 2018, Rudolf, as one of the main characters of the 14th season of the Telenovela Rote Rosen, embodied the archaeologist “Dr. Arne Fries ”, who according to the film plot wanted to prove that the Varus battle on Höhbeck on the Elbe took place.

## Moderation

He also appears as a moderator of major events (including the Ecumenical Kirchentag 2003 in Berlin and on the cruise ship AIDA) and designed warm-ups for various television programs; among other things for ran - Sat.1 Bundesliga and the Champions League for TM3.

He hosted the Travel Channel Airport Festival and the Hein Gas Summer Festival in Hamburg, as well as for Vaillant at the ISH fair; the Gerry Weber Open and the children's television show In the realm of wild children on TV Munich. In the MDR he played in a sketch of the Heinz Rennack show. He also moderated and sang in the MDR New Year's Show 2001 and appeared in various skits. Rudolf also worked on the radio as a moderator and editor for Jazz Welle plus Hamburg.

## Speaker

As a voice actor, he lends his voice to Robert Downey jr. in the DVD version of Natural Born Killers, Brad Dourif in Chucky II, Matt Letscher in the television series Almost Perfect, Deezer D in the series Emergency Room - Die Notaufnahme and J. August Richards as Charles Gunn in the mystery series Angel - Jäger of darkness. His best known dubbing work also includes the anime cartoon The Great Soccer Stars, in which he lends his voice to the main character Tsubasa Ohzora.

In addition, Rudolf also works as a speaker in commercials and was heard in a large number of radio spots, he also worked for TV spots. Christian Rudolf often works as an off-speaker. In the radio comedy section, Rudolf was heard in "Goethe & Schiller". This project was produced on CD. Rudolf also played the role of the farmer “Cord Husemann” as a walk act, whose figure was created for the “AC” PR campaign of an energy supply company for customer acquisition. As a spokesman for documentary programs, he can be heard, for example, on the television station Arte and discussed the audio book Rise and Fall of the U.S.A. brand.

## Family

Christian Rudolf has two children. He has lived in Hamburg since 1989. His younger brother is the actor Stefan Rudolf.

## Involvement in *Duluth*

In the German dub of *Duluth*, he voices Philip R. Clarke, Whitefish Bay (seventeenth season onwards), and CSL Tadoussac (Audio Books only).