Biography

Daniel Axt is a German actor, voice artist, and musician, best known for his role as Nick in Disneys "Rock it!", as Jannik Anders in the German TV-Series "Forbidden Love" and as Jürgen Neuhaus in Die Brücke (2008).

Axt was born in Langenhagen in 1991 and he got into acting in Hanover in 2005. At age 13, Axt started attending an acting school called TASK. When a tape from a camera acting class was sent to the corresponding kids and teens agency TASK, they saw his potential and signed him at the age of fifteen. He has been with his manager for ten years now. In 2007-08 he started to appear on the German TV-Show crime.de and soon after that starred in the remake of Die Brücke (2008), which starred Franka Potente.

In 2009, at age 17, he got cast in Disney's "Rock it!" for the leading role Nick which he was later nominated for a "New Faces Award" for best actor. The movie's band "Rock it!" (of which Axt was lead singer) played some festivals before they split up. In 2009-10, he signed with the FC Norden 02 agency. In 2010, he started working as a voice actor, when he dubbed the voice of "Hickup" (in German) in Paramount Pictures' How to Train Your Dragon (2010) and How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014). He also did the German dubbing for the role of "Winston" in The Maze Runner film franchise.

When he graduated from school in 2011 he moved to New York City to perfect his English and to study acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School Of The Theatre, where the Meisner technique is taught. After being asked back to the second year in 2012, he graduated from the two year full-time acting program in 2013.

Before he moved back to Germany in 2013 he starred in Jeffrey Sweets play "Cover" as Marty and in Murphy Guyers play "Loyalties" as Rudy in the Rita Morgenthau Theatre, NYC. He appeared as "Wining Boy" in August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson" and as Eric in Jason Katims's "The Man Who Couldn't Dance" at the Signature Theatre (Off-Broadway).

When Axt was seven years old he started playing the guitar and took guitar lessons for seven years. He has been playing ever since and started songwriting early on. In 2012, he was introduced to some some musicians who he later released his first EP "54th street" with (in September 2014). At age 22, he was asked to direct the stage adaptation of "Rock it!" for the theatre at Kurfürstendamm in Berlin. The production including 70 people on stage (orchestra, band, choir and ensemble) premiered in March 2015, ran again in September/October 2015 and in June 2017. From 2011-17 he appeared in several German television shows, TV movies and shorts.

Axt is fluent in German and English.
- IMDb mini biography by: Daniel Axt