German Film Academy Actor Ralph Kretschmar was born in Berlin, East Germany. He graduated from "Pierre de Coubertin" (Berlin), one of the best physical education college in Germany.
He was a competitive swimmer, later a full-time basketball player before becoming an actor.
Ralph appeared in a number of popular German films and shows, before landing a significant role in the popular German crime series Küstenwache (1997) in 2004.
He starred in nearly 70 episodes, shown European-wide.
After leaving the series by his own will in 2008, he took a memorable turn as an LSD & Cocain addict in Little Paris (2008), as a basketball star in Hangtime - Kein leichtes Spiel (2009), produced by Sönke Wortmann and as a lost student in the Oscar® Nominated feature film The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008).
In 2011, after a big audition marathon, Ralph played the part of Streetdancer Martin in Sony Pictures Entertainment's You Got Served: Beat the World (2011) of Stomp the Yard (2007) writer Robert Adetuyi.
Most recently, US-Director Matthew Mishory signed Ralph for his upcoming feature film Portland.
Ralph is about to play the rough and edgy part of 25 years old Stark. IMDb Mini Biography By: Iconoclastic Features
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