Biography

Emilio Sakraya started his career at the age of nine with several appearances in film productions. In his childhood years, he discovered his passion for music, karate, kung fu and parkour. He won the German Championship in "Full-Contact Karate" twice.

2010 he had his cinema debut in the film "Zeiten ändern dich", produced by Bernd Eichinger. This was followed by numerous film and television productions like "V8- Du willst der Beste sein", "Mitten in Deutschland: NSU - Die Opfer" and "Die 7. Stunde".

Since 2014 he plays "Tarik Schmüll" in the very successful German cinema series "Bibi and Tina". At the end of 2016 he played the role of the Indian "Neke Bah" in the RTL short series "Winnetou". In the same year, he was filming the international series "4 Blocks" with Frederick Lau and Kida Ramadan for TNT-Series and the film "Rock my Heart".

At the beginning of 2017 he played the leading role in the TV episode "Tatort - Söhne und Väter". Since the 23rd of February the fourth and last part of "Bibi und Tina" has been showing in cinemas. In March 2017 the actor was shooting the German horror film "Heilstätten", which aired at German cinemas in October 2017.

The leading role in the TV movie "Tatort - Söhne und Väter" followed 2017. Also the fourth and the last part of "Bibi und Tina" was showed in cinemas. In the same year Emilio Sakraya was shooting the German horror film "Heilstätten" and the cinema film "Meine teuflisch gute Freundin". This was followed by a leading role in the TV movie "Der Schweinhirt".

Emilio Sakraya also shot the TV movie "Tatort: Das verschwundene Kind" together with Maria Furtwängler and Florence Kasumba. The film with the actor in the episode lead role was shown on ARD at the beginning of February 2019. For his performance he was nominated for the Studio Hamburg Nachwuchspreis.

At the beginning of 2018 Emilio Sakraya took over the leading role in the film "Cold Feet" directed by Wolfgang Groos. He appeared alongside Heiner Lauterbach and Sonja Gerhardt. The film was showed in cinemas at January 2019.

In the first half of 2019 Emilio Sakraya stood as JC with Alba Baptista for the new international Netflix's drama series "Warrior Nun" based on the manga novels by creator Simon Barry (Ghost Wars, Continuum) in front of the camera.

The release of his first songs like "Bisschen allein", "Berlin an der Spree" and "Drauf bist" followed in spring 2019.
- IMDb mini biography by: Senkbeil PR