Denis Moschitto, born June 22, 1977, in Cologne, did not attend any actor's training before he made his movie debut in 1999 in Rolf Schübel's "Gloomy Sunday". In the following years, Moschitto was mainly seen in youth films and "coming of age" movies such as "Schule" ("No More School", 2000) or "Nichts bereuen" ("No Regrets", 2001), where the son of an Italian father and a Turkish mother most often appeared as the cunning Italian or Turkish sidekick to the main protagonists. He also impressed critics and movie goers alike with his portrayal of DAF singer Gabi Delgado in "Verschwende deine Jugend" ("Play It Loud!", 2003).

One year later, Moschitto played his first leading role in the comedy "Süperseks" as a Hamburg-based Turk who sets up a phone sex hotline for fellow countrymen. Moschitto then played another leading role in a comedy as a wannabe star movie director in Anno Saul's film "Kebab Connection". The drama "Chiko", produced by Fatih Akin, features Moschitto as a small-time gangster from Hamburg who wants to get "to the top" by all means, a performance that might become his breakthrough. Although the film was very well received by critics and Moschitto was especially lauded for his performance, which also garnered him a nomination for the German Film Award, he continued to appear mostly in memorable supporting roles in films like "1 1/2 Ritter – Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde" (2008), "Zweiohrküken" (2009) and "Almanya – Willkommen in Deutschland" (2011).

Moschitto went on to star in  Fatih Akin's contribution to the compilation film "Deutschland 09", the sports drama "Gegengerade" (2011) and  Detlev Buck's box office hit "RubbeldieKatz".

At that time, Moschitto was also part of the ensemble cast of the real-time TV crime series "Allein gegen die Zeit" (2010-2012). In the Austrian romantic comedy "Zweisitzrakete" ("Rocket for Two",2013), he played a supporting role as a frightened participant of a support group who unexpectedly grows beyond himself; in the American-British thriller "Closed Circuit" (2013), he portrayed a young man who is arrested in London as a terrorism suspect, despite his guilt being far from proven.

Moschitto demonstrated his comedic talent in Marco Kreuzpaintner's comedy "Coming In" (2014), as the chauffeur of a gay celebrity hairdresser (Kostja Ullmann). He also had an important supporting role in the ensemble of the drama "Uns geht es gut" ("We Are Fine", 2015), about a group of young people searching for their place in life. Moschitto also appeared in several television roles, such as the "Tatort" episode "Türkischer Honig" (2014) and the "Großstadtrevier" double episode "Der gute Bulle" (2014). The miniseries "Im Knast" (2015) showed him in an outstanding role as the leader of a prison gang.

In 2016, Moschitto had a supporting role in the dystopian thriller "Volt". He had a starring role in Fatih Akin's thriller "Aus dem Nichts" ("In the Fade"), which was released in 2017. Also in 2017, he was part of the ensemble cast of Josef Hader's black comedy "Wilde Maus" ("Wild Mouse", AT).

In the following years, Moschitto appeared in several television productions, including episodes of "Ein Fall für zwei" (2018) and "Jerks" (2019), as well as a lead role in the three-part series "Bella Germania" (2018), which follows a German-Italian family from 1954 to 2019.

For the cinema, he played a brutal gangster in "Die Zukunft ist ein einsamer Ort" ("Future is a Lonely Place", 2021), the buddy of a German film star in the comedy "Liebesdings" (2021), and a colleague and friend of the male protagonist in the comedy "Nesting" (2021). Moschitto had supporting roles in Fatih Akin's Xatar biopic "Rheingold" (2022) and in the tragicomedy "Over & Out" (2022).

At the Munich Film Festival in 2023, Moschitto presented his directorial debut "Schock" ("Shock"), in which he also plays the lead role of a doctor who practices without a license and becomes increasingly involved in the affairs of a criminal patient.

Besides his work as an actor, Moschitto is the co-author of the computer books "Hackerland" and "Hackertales" and a musician with the bands "Scoopex" and "Shining-8".