Michael Koch

Michael Koch is a young Swiss actor who received his training at the Actor's Academy at the "Junges Theater Basel", in Switzerland. Some of his many theater credits include the leading role in "Playboy of the Western World", featured at the Theaterspektakel in Zürich. He also played in "Die Schaukel", a theater play which won the 2001 Jury Prize and Audience Award at the Impulse Off-Theater Festival, and was invited to the prestigious Vienna Festwochen in 2002. His notable debut in cinema was in the motion picture "Achtung, Fertig, Charlie!" ("Ready, Steady, Charlie!"). A Swiss movie which became, during its 8 weeks of theater projection in Switzerland, the most successful film for years to be released in the country. It was nominated for the 2004 Swiss Film Prize.