Biography

Donatas Simukauskas is an Eastern European actor. He was schooled in acting at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. The breakthrough role of Donatas' career was in a cult Lithuanian comedy "Zero: Alyvine Lietuva" in 2006 where he played a corrupt police officer. After that came numerous roles in local and international productions such as "Die Flucht/March of Millions" directed by Kai Wessel, TV mini-series "War &Peace" by Robert Dornhelm starring Clemence Poesy and Malcolm McDowel, Japanese TV series "Clouds Over the Hill". Among the highlights of Donatas' career there are roles in feature films "The Crown Jewels" directed by Ella Lemhagen starring Alicia Vikander and Bill Skarsgard, "Gitel" directed by Robert Mullan where Donatas played Rabbi Ozerovski and a Lithuanian blockbusters "Zero II" and "Redirected" where Donatas astablished himself as a prominent comedy actor. His most recent work include Swedish TV series "Moscow Noir" by Mikael Håfström, Johan Brisinger and Mårten Klingberg in 2018 and "Kalifat" in 2020 and a feature film "Sasha Was Here" nominated for Best First Feature in Tallin Black Nights Festival in 2018 and Golden Duke in Odessa International Film Festival in 2019.
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