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Markus Knüfken wuchs in Essen auf. Knüfken machte 1985 in Essen-Kettwig sein Abitur und zog dann nach München, um seinen Zivildienst anzutreten. 1987 arbeitete er für sechs Monate im Paketpostamt München, um sich eine halbjährige Reise nach Australien zu finanzieren.
Im April 1988 kam er aus Australien zurück. Er machte den Taxischein und arbeitete als Dauerstatist bei der Bavaria Film für die ARD Reihe Rote Erde. Im Sommer 1990 begann er seine Ausbildung als Schauspieler bei der Schauspielschule Schauspiel München.
Nach drei Jahren schloss er die Ausbildung ab. Sein Anfänger-Engagement hatte er im Februar 1994 beim Stadttheater Herford. Zuvor drehte er jedoch bereits seine ersten Fernsehproduktionen. Seine erste große Rolle spielt Knüfken im November/Dezember 1993 als rechtsradikaler Skinhead in der Polizeiruf-110-Folge Samstags wenn Krieg ist unter der Regie von Roland Suso Richter. Es folgten Hauptrollen in Krimi-Reihen wie Tatort und Notruf Hafenkante.
Im Jahr 1995 etablierte sich Markus Knüfken mit der Hauptrolle des Eddie Velten in der Serie Auf Achse. Seitdem hat er in vielen Fernsehfilmen, Serien aber auch Kinoproduktionen mitgespielt. Als seine persönlichen Lieblingsprojekte nennt Knüfken Bang Boom Bang und Doppelpack. Weitere bekannte Produktionen, an denen Knüfken mitwirkte, waren unter anderem Das merkwürdige Verhalten geschlechtsreifer Großstädter zur Paarungszeit und Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.
Markus Knüfken war mit der niederländischen Schauspielerin Ellen ten Damme verheiratet. Er lebt seit 2003 in Hamburg und ist mit Andrea Lion verheiratet, mit der er ein Kind und eine Stieftochter hat.
Most Popular Markus Knüfken Trailers
Total trailers found: 49
23 October 2013
Short german horror comedy.
26 November 1998
Director Rufus Lindner is shooting his first film: " Die Vatikankiller". With audience favorite Kai Rabe in the leading role, success is guaranteed.
05 January 2021
In a dark world of violence and lies, an assimilated Ottoman frees a sentenced Witch from the pyre to start a new life with her.
06 January 2016
The peat farmer Hannes Gerhards wants his girlfriend Helen Dahms from the city to pull him to the countryside.
05 October 2012
The serial killer "Nachtschlitzer" keeps the city holding its breath. With the police always one step behind the murderer, only the radio DJ Doc Rock can lure him out of his hiding place.
20 February 1997
Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room.
30 January 2002
Bobby Kustermann is a young man with Down syndrome who lives in a loving family until his mother dies unexpectedly, leaving a hefty heritage.
27 August 1998
The film is a comedy centering on the lives of eight Germans who long for sexual excitement.
04 March 2001
An {explosive} love story, directed by Lutz Lemke.
18 October 2000
Joy can not accept the fact that her career as a model is over at 24. The star photographer Tom Kurz shows no interest in her.
26 August 1999
Bank robber Kalle Grabowski escapes from prison while his unemployed smalltime crook buddy is sitting around doing nothing after he just lost all their money.
19 April 2002
Anna, a lonely mother who runs a party service, lives primarily for Tobi, her little son, whose father had abandoned them years ago.
18 October 2002
The firefighter Erik wants to make a proposal to his girlfriend Sofie, but at the crucial moment sparkles the attractive Melissa in between.
01 November 2010
The construction of the new community center for a town on the Sognefjord could inspire Agnes' career.
21 March 2019
11-year-old Rocca, a clever, creative and brave girl who lives all by herself in defiance of her teachers and the authorities has to fight to keep her independence and prove to everyone that a child also has the power to change the world.
19 July 2001
Produced and directed by seven Munich Film School students, Honolulu takes place not in Hawaii, but inside of a rural town just outside of Munich, Germany.
14 January 2016
After her fiancee cancels the wedding, Merlin's life changes drastically when she moves in with one of her brother's best friends.
07 December 2000
The last three weeks of school life have begun: After the Abitur, Germany's leaving certificate, the friends and schoolmates of Gymnasium Kerkheim (Kerkheim High) will not see each other again so soon.
24 October 2008
Luisa Wagner is a successful event manager. At the same time she also manages to look after her two children, Krista and Jakob, the housework, her husband Michael and her father.
01 January 2007
A boarding game comes alive and drags a family into its world
25 November 2011
The ambitious business consultant and single father Edgar Strack is desperately trying to reconcile family and work needs.
17 August 2000
Naive, talkative Hoffi and mouthy Lehmi are as different as can be. But this doesn't dampen their friendship.
31 October 2013
Alex Gaul is convinced that he will soon make it big as an actor. Until then, he'll just have to continue playing the porn stud.
11 February 2010
After a painful separation from her husband, Barbara, an attractive woman in her mid-forties, wants to change her mind and really relax.
07 April 1995
Shortly before the end of the war in 1945, the Allies can already be heard in Nesselbühl in Swabia when three freight cars are uncoupled at the station.
01 September 2006
Little Theresa is the sole heir to a hotel on Usedom after her mother's death. Mother's friend continues to run it.
30 January 2009
The attractive Eva Färber has been the perfect wife for 22 years. However, the calm and steady married life of the mother of two is disrupted when she receives the news that her father is seriously ill and is visiting her sister Hanna in South Africa.
29 June 2000
The two sales clerks Tanja and Nicole hardly know each other, but they share something: their married lover, who is careful not to let them know anything about his marriage or the other.
30 May 2000
In war-torn Puglia, mute homeless but childlike in spirit fifty-year-old Sciusciù witnesses three Allied paratroopers landing one night and resolves to guide them to safety.
10 November 2003
Heinrich Lutter is unemployed and lives with his two sons Mike and Günni. Both need his full attention: Mike has a criminal record and Günni has been disabled since birth.
28 June 2014
The state in which we find ourselves, tests each citizen at the age of twelve years, just as Léon.
21 November 2008
When young judge Laura catches her husband Peter red-handed with his long-term mistress, she has finally had enough: she decides to file for divorce.
01 January 2006
Folklore student Pablo is more focused on his life with his girlfriend and friends than on his studies.
17 October 2000
29-year-old Liza can't believe her eyes when she catches her boyfriend in flagrante delicto with a stranger on the couch at home.
