Branko Tomović

Branko Tomović (born June 17, 1980, in Münster, Germany) is a German-Serbian actor, writer, and director, 6′ 1″ (185 cm) tall, of Serbian descent. His parents emigrated in the 1970s from the Golubac Fortress area on the Danube, and he was raised between Germany and Serbia before studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York City. He is based in London, speaks English, German, Serbo-Croatian, and some Russian, and is also a painter. He made his film debut in the AFI/Sundance drama Remote Control (2001), for which he received the OmU Award at the Potsdam Film Festival, and won Best Actor at the San Francisco Short Film Festival (2010) for Inbetween (2008). His most notable film credits include a Russian Policeman in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007, directed by Paul Greengrass), Milan in It's a Free World… (2007, directed by Ken Loach), Roman in The Wolfman (2010, directed by Joe Johnston), Paschal in Pope Joan (2009), Yuri Levkov in Entity (2012), Big John in City of Tiny Lights (2016, with Emily Blunt), and a German Corporal in Fury (2014, directed by David Ayer, with Brad Pitt). On television he is best known as Belcheck in 24: Live Another Day (2014, 10 episodes, with Kiefer Sutherland), Elmir in Killing Eve (2018, 1 episode), and Doctor in Counterpart (2017, 1 episode), with additional credits in Whitechapel (2009), Dogs of Berlin (2018), and Homeland (2012). He made his directorial feature debut with the Serbian horror film Vampir (2021, in which he also stars as Arnaut), which world-premiered at Sitges, and directed the short Red (2016). He has been nominated for the German Cinema New Talent Award and the Hof Gold Prize.

Branko Tomović (born June 17, 1980, in Münster, Germany) is a German-Serbian actor, writer, and director, 6′ 1″ (185 cm) tall, of Serbian descent. His parents emigrated in the 1970s from the Golubac Fortress area on the Danube, and he was raised between Germany and Serbia before studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York City. He is based in London, speaks English, German, Serbo-Croatian, and some Russian, and is also a painter. He made his film debut in the AFI/Sundance drama Remote Control (2001), for which he received the OmU Award at the Potsdam Film Festival, and won Best Actor at the San Francisco Short Film Festival (2010) for Inbetween (2008). His most notable film credits include a Russian Policeman in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007, directed by Paul Greengrass), Milan in It's a Free World… (2007, directed by Ken Loach), Roman in The Wolfman (2010, directed by Joe Johnston), Paschal in Pope Joan (2009), Yuri Levkov in Entity (2012), Big John in City of Tiny Lights (2016, with Emily Blunt), and a German Corporal in Fury (2014, directed by David Ayer, with Brad Pitt). On television he is best known as Belcheck in 24: Live Another Day (2014, 10 episodes, with Kiefer Sutherland), Elmir in Killing Eve (2018, 1 episode), and Doctor in Counterpart (2017, 1 episode), with additional credits in Whitechapel (2009), Dogs of Berlin (2018), and Homeland (2012). He made his directorial feature debut with the Serbian horror film Vampir (2021, in which he also stars as Arnaut), which world-premiered at Sitges, and directed the short Red (2016). He has been nominated for the German Cinema New Talent Award and the Hof Gold Prize.