Mišel Matičević, was born in West-Berlin in 1970. Between 1994 and 1998, he studied acting at the HFF Konrad Wolf in Potsdam-Babelsberg. During that time, he already appeared in stage productions at the Deutsche Theater, Berlin and the Kleist-Theater, Frankfurt/Oder.

In 1996, he made his screen debut in "Müde Weggefährten", which compiles five episodes about refugees from the civil war in Yugoslavia and received the Max-Ophüls-Award. He got his first leading role in Dito Tsintsadze"s "Lost Killers" (2000), and won the Actor Award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival for his performance as a luckless hitman. In the following years, he primarily worked in television and displayed a wide range: He appeared in successful TV series like "Tatort", "Alarm für Cobra 11" and "Kommissar Rex", popular entertainment fare like "Die Eltern der Braut" (2003) and acclaimed dramas like "Hotte im Paradies" (2003) and "Kalter Frühling" (2004), both directed by Dominik Graf.

In 2006, he played a Hungarian poet and revolutionary in the international co-production "The Company", a thriller about the history of the CIA. The same year, he starred in Graf"s crime drama "Eine Stadt wird erpresst". Again teaming up with Graf, he played poet Clemens Brentano in the 2007 production "Das Gelübde". This role, along with his performances in "Todesautomatik" and "Die dunkle Seite", won him the Best Actor Award at the Deutsche Fernsehpreis in 2008.

Matičević returend to the big screen with a supporting role in Caroline Link"s "Im Winter ein Jahr", and appearances in "Effi Briest" and "Hangtime – Kein leichtes Spiel". After Dominik Graf cast him as the lead for his spectacular TV series "Im Angesicht des Verbrechens", he starred in Thomas Arslan"s thriller "Im Schatten". His sixth collaboration with Graf, the drama "Dreileben – Komm mir nicht nach", will air in 2011.