Background
Ingo was born in Iserlohn, West Germany, to Arndt and Roswitha Rademacher.
Ingo was born in Iserlohn, West Germany, to Arndt and Roswitha Rademacher.
In 2012, he played Officer Sacks in the film Alex Cross. Rademacher placed 5th on the 16th season of Dancing with the Stars. He has a sister named Anne.
Arndt and Roswitha decided to move the family to Australia when Ingo was 10.
He dropped out of the University of Queensland (Brisbane) after six months and began to model. After the modelling stint, he entered the acting profession.
His first role was the character of surfer Sean Hayden in the Australian soap opera Paradise Beach. After that show was canceled, he moved to Los Angeles in 1994.
His former Paradise Beach co-star, Jaason Simmons, who had appeared on Baywatch, arranged a place for him to stay in Los Los Angeles
General Hospital producer Wendy Riche saw his (unsuccessful) audition tape for the soap opera The City and immediately cast him as Jasper "Jax" Jacks. The character, a suave tycoon, has been involved with a succession of General Hospital characters, most notably Brenda Barrett (played by Vanessa Marcil), who was also a love interest of Sonny Corinthos" (played by Maurice Benard). Jax and Carly"s relationship has been a passionate and tempestuous one, marked by separations and reunions.
Jax came close to legally adopting Carly"s younger son, Morgan.
Together, Jax and Carly have a baby daughter, Josslyn. During a one-year break from General Hospital, Ingo appeared on the short-lived primetime soap opera Titans.
Jax reappeared on General Hospital on August 23, 2012. Rademacher sits on the board of Heal the Bay, a Santa Monica-based environmental organization.