André Jung was born in 1953 in Luxembourg. After attending actor’s training at Stuttgart’s Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst from 1973 to 1976, Jung performed at several theatres. Twice, in 1981 and in 2002, the theatre magazine "Theater heute" named him "Actor of the year". Furthermore, he was awarded with the Rita-Tanck-Schauspielpreis of Hamburgische Kulturstiftung in 2000. Since 1986, Jung has also participated in numerous radio plays, film and TV productions.

He made his movie debut in Alexander Kluge’s film "Vermischte Nachrichten" ("Miscellaneous News", 1986). Besides smaller roles in films like "Das Experiment" ("The Experiment", 2001), directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, or "Vorne ist verdammt weit weg" (2007), Jung starred in a leading role of Lola Randl’s film "Die Besucherin" ("Days In Between") that opened in cinemas in the spring of 2009. In the film, Jung plays a widower who starts a hopeless affair with Agnes (Sylvana Krappatsch), a woman unknown him.