Simon Schwarz, born January 10, 1971, in Vienna, is the son of a theatre scholar and a German studies alumna. He is a trained dancer and attended drama school at Hochschule Ernst Busch in Berlin. Schwarz started his film and TV career in Austria and starred in films by Stefan Ruzowitzky ("Die Siebtelbauern", 1998), Wolfgang Murnberger ("Komm, süßer Tod", 2000), Paul Harather ("Die Gottesanbeterin", 2001), and Jörg Kalt ("Crash Test Dummies", 2004). He also played the associate of the Austrian police detective "Trautmann" in several TV movies.