Hans Werner Meyer (born 14 April 1964 in Hamburg, West Germany) is a German film and television actor.
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Life and career
Hans-Werner Meyer attended the Albert Schweitzer Gymnasium in Hamburg. He studied at the
School for Music and Theater in Hannover and started his acting career at the Residenztheater in Munich. In 1993 he went to Berlin and worked at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz with renowned directors such as Andrea Breth, Luc Bondy, Leander Haußmann, Robert Lepage.
His first film was Charlie & Louise in 1992 directed by Joseph Vilsmaier, followed by more movie and television work. In 1997 Meyer gave up his Schaubühne engagement and mainly concentrated on film and TV work. Meanwhile he has starred or featured in about 80 film or TV productions, among them the 48 episodes of the crime TV series Die Cleveren, with Meyer starring as a police psychologist, for which he was awarded the Bavarian TV award. In 2000 and 2001 he was a nominee for the German TV award.
In the following years his roles became more and more versatile, comprising diverse characters, such as long distance runner Dieter Baumann in Ich will laufen – der Fall Dieter Baumann (English: “I want to run – the case of Dieter Baumann”) or the son of a Prussian Officer, Albrecht Sterenberg, who slowly develops insanity in the historical two-part TV production Platinum. He also acted as Thomas Menz, a loser suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder in Doppelter Einsatz – Fluch des Feuers .
Meyer published his first audio book "Spider" in 2007 and was awarded the "Ohrkanus Award".
Since April 2006 Meyer has been an honorary board member of the German actors’ trade union Bundesverband der Film- und Fernsehschauspieler.
Hans Werner Meyer is married to the British actress Jacqueline Macaulay.
Selected filmography
Movies
1993: Charlie & Louise – Das doppelte Lottchen
1994: Der Schatten des Schreibers
1996: Busenfreunde
1997: Ende des Frühlings
1998: Marlene
2000: Laissez-Passer
2006: Lapislazuli: In the Eyes of the Bear
2008: Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
2009: Albert Schweitzer
2010: Someone Like Him
2013: Adieu Paris
Television
1997: It Happened in Broad Daylight
1997: Schimanski: Blutsbrüder
1998: Hauptsache Leben
1998–2006: Die Cleveren (TV series)
1999: Gefährliche Wahrheit
2000: Und morgen geht die Sonne wieder auf
2000: Vera Brühne
2001: Liebe darf alles
2001: Tatort: Gute Freunde
2002: An Unusual Affair
2003: Two Days of Hope
2004: Platinum
2004: Ich will laufen – Der Fall Dieter Baumann
2004: Doppelter Einsatz: Der Fluch des Feuers
2005: Was für ein schöner Tag
2006: Prager Botschaft
2007: Contergan
2007: Ich leih' mir eine Familie
2008: The Secret of Loch Ness
2008: Mordshunger
2008: The Wall: The Final Days
2010: Das zweite Wunder von Loch Ness
2011: Die Schäferin
2011: Beate Uhse