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Golo Euler was born in Starnberg on September 8 1982. From 2002 until 2006, he studied acting at the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding. During that time, he already appeared in stage productions at the Münchner Akademietheater and the Metropoltheater. Moreover, he worked at the Theater Halle 7 in Munich, the Staatstheater Braunschweig and the Gostner Hoftheater in Nuremberg.
Euler had his first major screen role in the 2006 romantic drama "Auftauchen" ("Amour fou"). In the following years, he frequently guest-starred in TV shows, and had recurring roles in the soap "Sturm der Liebe" (from 2009 until 2016) and the police procedural "Heiter bis tödlich: Henker & Richter" (2011-2012). In 2011, Euler starred in a TV adaptation of Ödön von Horváth's play "Kasimir und Karoline". His performance won him the Förderpreis Deutscher Film at the Munich Film Festival.
On TV, Euler also starred in the drama "Die Frau aus dem Moor" (2014), the romance "Die Fischerin" (2014) and the acclaimed "Tatort" episode "Im Schmerz geboren" (2014). The latter two performances garnered him a nomination for the 2014 Hessian Film Award. In addition to this, he continued to guest-star in popular TV shows like "Der letzte Bulle" and "Spreewaldkrimi".
After minor roles in the theatrical releases "Lauf Junge lauf" ("Run, Boy, Run!", 2013) and "Grand Budapest Hotel" (2014), Euler was one of the leads of the award-winning drama "Anderswo" ("Anywhere Else", 2014), playing the German boyfriend of an Israeli student. In 2016, Golo Euler had starring roles in "Ferien", "Fado" and the tragicomedy "Die letzte Sau" ("The Last Pig", 2016), in which he played a bankrupt hog farmer going on a droll road trip with his last pig.
After that Euler again starred in a number of television productions. In the comedy "Leichtmatrosen - Drei Männer in einem Boot" (2017), for example, he went on a houseboat tour as a crisis-stricken city dweller, and he played a leading role as a small-town policeman in Hans Christian Schmid's award-winning mini-series "Das Verschwinden" ("The Vanishing", 2017).
In 2018 he impersonated an ambitious sports official and violent husband in Hermine Huntgeburth's "Tatort" episode "Unter Kriegern". In the same year he took on a leading role as an investigator in the crime series "Schwartz & Schwartz" alongside Devid Striesow. On the big screen Golo Euler appeared in a supporting role in Aron Lehmann's much acclaimed youth film "Das schönste Mädchen der Welt" ("The Most Beautiful Girl in the World", 2018). He played a leading role in Doris Dörrie's "Kirschblüten & Dämonen" ("Cherry Blossoms and Demons", 2019), a sequel to "Kirschblüten - Hanami" ("Cherry Blossoms", 2007): Euler embodied the son of Elmar Wepper's character, who is led out of his life crisis by his late father's wise Japanese girlfriend.
In 2019, Euler won the German Acting Award, presented by the German actors' association, for his role as a pedophile murderer in "Unter Kriegern", an episode of "Tatort", Germany's long-running and highly popular television crime series. In the years that followed, he appeared in a number of successful TV productions, including the miniseries "Schneller als die Angst" ("Faster Than Fear," 2022) and "Der Greif" ("The Gryphon," 2023), as well as episodes of the crime series "Polizeiruf 110", which began on East German television, and "Landkrimi", a series of crime films set in rural Austria. From 2026, he played a regular lead role as a chief inspector in "Thüringenkrimi", a crime series set in the eastern German state of Thuringia.
On the big screen, Euler appeared in two films directed by Aron Lehmann: the comedy "Jagdsaison" ("Hunting Season," 2022) and the family drama "Lügen über meine Mutter" ("Lies About My Mother," 2026), in which he played the father. In the fantasy film "Ein Mädchen namens Willow" ("A Girl Named Willow," 2025), he played the father of the young title character.