Antoine Monot Jr.

Antoine Monot Jr. (born 22 June 1975 in Rheinbach, West Germany) is a Swiss-German actor and film producer with both German and Swiss citizenship. He had his breakthrough with the film Absolute Giganten in 1999 and became known to a wider audience especially through his work as a testimonial for technical trade chain Saturn. Since 2014, he has appeared as an advocate in the relaunch of the TV series Ein Fall für zwei. Life Childhood Monot was born in Rheinbach, Germany, as the son of composer and conductor Jean-Francois Monot and actress Gisela Monot. Due to his parents’ professional lives, the family moved places on a number of occasions before he was seven years old. His mother then took up a job as a teacher at the Rudolf Steiner boarding school Loheland near Fulda and Monot visited the school until he was 14, before first moving to Hochstadt where he attended the Free Rudolf Steiner school in Frankfurt am Main and then to Unterägeri near Zug in Switzerland. Monot has two sisters, Elise Hofner and Jeanne Monot.