Christoph M. Ohrt

German actor Christoph M. Ohrt (1960) is best known for his roles in popular TV series like HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin (1998), and Edel & Starck (2002). He also appeared in German and some international films.


German autograph card by SAT. 1, Berlin. Photo: SAT.1 / Trenkel. Christoph M. Ohrt in the TV series HeliCops (1998-2001).

A delicious gender-bender comedy

Christoph Marius Ohrt was born in 1960 in Hamburg, Germany, and also grew up in this city. He attended the Gymnasium Eppendorf, a high school, which he left a few years before his graduation to study acting.

He attended the Schauspielschule Bühnenstudio, a drama school in Hamburg, from 1977 to 1979 and studied acting in New York at the Center for the Acting Process from 1979 to 1983.

The following year, he made his film debut with a lead role in the romantic comedy Kassensturz/Cash drop (Rolf Silber, 1984) with Britta Pohland and Tilo Prückner.

It was followed by such little known, German films as Dann ist nichts mehr wie vorher/Then Nothing Is the Same Anymore (Gerd Roman Frosch, 1987) with Barbara Rudnik and Karin Baal, and Die Richterin/The Judge (Jörg Grünler, 1990).

He also appeared on television in series and TV films. He played the lead in such popular series as the situation comedy Das Nest/The Nest (1989-1992), and in the US he appeared in the NBC series The Fifth Corner (1991-1992). He was one of the stars of the TV series HeliCops (1998-2001), about an elite unit of the Berlin police which fights crime using a high-tech prototype helicopter.

In the cinema, he co-starred with Katja Riemann in the romantic comedy Nur über meine Leiche/Over My Dead Body (Rainer Matsutani, 1995) and starred in the delicious gender-bender comedy Echte Kerle/Regular Guys (Rolf Silber, 1996).


German autograph card.


German autograph card by Sat.1. Photo: Sat.1 / Torsten Eichhorst. Christoph M. Ohrt in the TV series Edel & Starck (2002-2005).

A witty screwball comedy situated in a law firm

In the new century, Christoph M. Ort continued to combine TV work with feature films. He had a role in the Swedish thriller Livvakterna/Executive Protection (Anders Nilsson, 2001), starring Jakob Eklund.

Then he co-starred with Rebecca Immanuel in the romantic comedy series Edel & Starck (2002-2005), a witty screwball comedy situated in a law firm. For his role as Felix Edel, he won a German Television Award in 2002 and a Bavarian TV Award in 2003.

Other films included the award-winning comedy Barfuß bis zum Hals/Barefoot to the Neck (Hansjörg Thurn, 2009) in which he starred as a conservative textile manufacturer from Bavaria, who buys a nudist site in Eastern Germany, and the excellent comedy-drama Dieter Not Unhappy (Christian Schäfer, 2017), a student film that got international acclaim.

He also played a supporting part in the American film Reach me/Out of Sight (John Herzfeld, 2014) with Sylvester Stallone, Kyra Sedgwick, and Thomas Jane.

In recent years, he could be seen in several popular German TV series, such as Frühling/Spring (2018-2021), Das Traumschiff/The Dream Boat (2012-2020), and Daheim in den Bergen/At home in the mountains (2018-2021).

Christoph M. Ohrt met his wife Stevee DeNike in Sherman Oaks, a district of Los Angeles. They have two children, daughter Lilly and son Spencer. The couple divorced in 2012. Orth is now in a relationship with actress Dana Golombek.


German autograph card.


German autograph card.

Sources: Wikipedia (English and German), and IMDb.