Overview
Lucas Reiber (born October 4, 1993) is a German actor. He is best known for his roles in the films Suck Me Shakespeer 2, The Red Band Society and Die Mutter des Mörders, and for portraying Niklas in the television series Binny and the Ghost.
Biography
He was born and raised in Lichterfelde before moving to Kreuzberg when he was 14.
His mother is Claudia Reiber and he has a sister, Lisa Reiber. His father became a vegan.
Reiber first appeared on stage in 2003 at the age of ten; he impersonated the young Gavroche in the musical Les Misérables at the Theater des Westens. From 2008, he was a member of the "junge Ensemble" (jE) of the Friedrichstadt-Palast, where he studied singing, acting and dance from 2008 to 2011. He took part in several productions there. From 2011 onwards, further acting coachings and singing lessons followed.
In 2009, under the direction of Peter Keglevic, he played his first film role in the two-part television film Ken Follett's (based on Whiteout). He impersonated the teenager Craig alongside Heiner Lauterbach (as Craig's grandfather 'Stanley Oxenford') and Sophie von Kessel (as Craig's mother 'Olga'). In his first feature film, the youth film Rock It! (2010), he played the role of Marc, the keyboarder of the rock band, alongside Maria Ehrich and Emilia Schüle. Before the film, he had keyboard lessons for six years and then got guitar lessons for the film. In 2011, he starred alongside Christian Ulmen in the feature film Einer wie Bruno; he played the young musician Benny Schmidtbauer.
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