Jürgen Vogel was born on April 29, 1968, in Hamburg and already started acting as a teenager, for example in Volker Maria Arend"s drama "Kinder aus Stein". After finishing secondary school, Vogel enrolled for actor"s training at Munich"s Schauspielschule but left already after the first day of training. Then, Vogel went to Berlin where he played theatre on an irregular basis and worked in several low-paid jobs. In 1988, he enjoyed his first success with Egon Günther"s film "Rosamunde". His performance as a mentally labile kidnapper won him the award as best young actor at the 1990 Bayerischer Filmpreis.

Vogel made his break-through with the subtle portrait of a likeable hedonist in Sönke Wortmann"s "Kleine Haie" (Acting It Out) which won him another Bayerischer Filmpreis. Since then, Vogel maintained his high profile in the German movie and TV scene. Vogel played leading parts in Dani Levy"s "Stille Nacht" (Silent Night) and Matthias Glasner"s "Sexy Sadie", which was co-produced by Vogel, and inspired moviegoers and critics alike with his performance as daydreamer Jan Nebel who is unhappily in love in the X-Filme production "Das Leben ist eine Baustelle" (Life Is All You Get) by Wolfgang Becker.

Vogel, who won the Filmband in Gold at the 1997 Deutscher Filmpreis for this performance, was and still is a very busy actor. Among others, he played one of the leading parts in Doris Dörrie"s tragic comedy "Nackt" (Naked) and, in 2005, made his debut as a singer in "Keine Lieder über Liebe" (No Songs of Love).

The following years, Jürgen Vogel remained one of the most busy TV and movie actors in Germany. After completing a total of seven film and television productions in 2006, he continued in 2007 with appearances in "Alte Freunde", "Duell in der Nacht", "Die Schatzinsel" and the crime series "KDD – Kriminaldauerdienst". Apart from that, he also found time for a cameo in Til Schweiger"s hit comedy "KeinOhrHasen".

After his leading role in the youth drama "Die Welle" (2008), for which he was nominated for an European Film Award, Vogel again proved his versatility in 2009: He appeared in Matthias Glasner"s controversial drama "This is Love" and the comedy romp "Männersache", and also played a Viking in Michael Herbig"s adaptation of "Wickie und die starken Männer". On TV, Vogel joined the cast of Bernd Schadewald"s acclaimed drama "12 Winter", and since 2009, he is a regular on the improvisational comedy program "Schillerstraße".

In the spring of 2010, not less than two feature films starring Jürgen Vogel were released: He plays an East-German police officer in the comedy "Boxhagener Platz", and in the drama " Schwerkraft", he portrays the shady friend of a struggling bank accountant.

After supporting roles in Philipp Leinemann"s drama "Transit" and Lars Kraume"s "Die kommenden Tage", which is a grim vision of the future with a top-class cast, Jürgen Vogel for change performs again in a comedy: In Leander Haussmann"s "Hotel Lux", with Michael Herbig as co-star, he plays a stand-up comedian, who flees from the Nazis and escapes to Moscow, where he becomes involved in a grotesque intrigue.