Hardy Krüger Junior. is a German actor.
Background
He is the son of the German actor-writer Hardy Krüger and the Italian painter Francesca Marazzi. Shortly after his birth, his father took his wife and son to Tanzania to live on the farm which had served as the backdrop for the film Hatari!, in which Krüger senior had appeared.
Education
Krüger junior attended an international school in Germany and then, after training as a bartender, in 1989 he took acting classes in Los Angeles and acted in United States television shows. In an interview in Volle Kanne (ZDF) Hardy Krüger Junior. stated he had also completed training as a chef.
Career
After graduating in 1991 he began his career in Germany with an appearance in the Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator series Nicht von schlechten Eltern and with the lead role in Gegen den Wind. He has since appeared in several international productions such as Du gehörst mir! (France, 1999), Asterix and Obelix vs Caesar (France, 1999) and Roger Young"s Dracula. In May 2006 he first appeared as the replacement for Christian Wolff in ZDF"s Forsthaus Falkenau, in which he now plays the lead role of the forester Stefan Leitner.
He is a United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund ambassador against child prostitution, a role for which he was rewarded by Kinderlachen with the "Kind-Award 2006".
He has also become a patron of the charity "TukTuk-Tour" from Asia to Europe. He also accompanied Bundesminister Sigmar Gabriel on the creation of the Naturallianz by the Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics-COP9.
In 2009 he remarried to Austrian communications-trainer and painter Katrin Fehringer, with whom he lives in Starnberg near Munich and with whom in 2009 he adopted a girl from Thailand.