Background
Born in Hannover, Markus Boysen is the son of stage actor Rolf Boysen and the brother of director and scenic designer Peer Boysen.
Born in Hannover, Markus Boysen is the son of stage actor Rolf Boysen and the brother of director and scenic designer Peer Boysen.
He received his acting education from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg. He got his first television part in 1977 in Wolfgang Petersen"s legendary Tatort television movie Reifezeugnis, where he played the victim who was murdered by Nastassja Kinski. Boysen has mostly worked on the stage, playing, among other places at: Schauspielhaus Bochum, Opernund Schauspielhaus Frankfurt, Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Deutsches Theater Berlin, Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel München, Burgtheater Wien, Thalia Theater Hamburg and Münchner Kammerspiele.
He has also had recurring appearances in television dramas such as Derrick, Der Alte, Kanzleramt and Tatort, as well as feature films, including:
1977: Tatort: Reifezeugnis
1978: Derrick, Season 5, Episode 5: "Steins Tochter"
1981: Derrick, Season 8, Episode 3: "Kein Garten Eden"
1986: Die Reise
1990: Wilhelm Tell
2003: Im Schatten der Macht (as Helmut Schmidt)
2004: Die Heilerin
2005: Mord am Meer
2005: Speer und Er
2008: Auftrag Schutzengel
2010: Tatort: Weil sie böse sind
2010: Wolfsfährte
2012: Lena Fauch und die Tochter des Amokläufers
1986 - Berengar von Arundel in Der Name der Rose (BR/SWR/NDR)
1981 - Ford Prefect in Per Anhalter ins All (English: The Hitchhiker"s Guide to the Galaxy) (BR/SWF/WDR)
2008 Rolf-Mares-Preis for his acting in Blackbird at the Hamburg Kammerspiele.