Langston Uibel
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Langston Uibel | |
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| Born | February 4, 1998 London, England, UK |
| Citizenship | British, German |
| Occupation | Actor |
Langston Uibel (born February 04, 1998) is a German-British actor who appeared in films, television series, and theaters. He is known for the Netflix series Dogs of Berlin (2018) and Unorthodox (2020), Christian Petzold’s Afire[1][2] as well as the Apple TV series Hijack.
Uibel was born in London, England, to a German mother and a Jamaican father. He lived in London until 2006, when his family moved to Berlin. He completed his Abitur at a bilingual English-German high school in Berlin and chose not to attend university, pursuing acting instead.[3]
Uibel began acting at age nine in the 2008 film Speed Racer, directed by the Wachowskis. In the same year, he played a child soldier in the short film The String Puppet, screened at Berlinale Talents.[1][4]
In 2013, he appeared in Hanni & Nanni 3 as a boarding school student. In 2014, he had a guest role in the crime series Letzte Spur Berlin. In Freistatt (2015), he portrayed an Afro-German student facing racial harassment. In 2017, he appeared in High Society and played Raphael Bou’Penga in Dogs of Berlin.[1][3]
Uibel received the Blaue Blume Award in 2018 for his role in Liebesstreifen and the Young Icon Award in 2019 for Dogs of Berlin.
He played Finn in Isi & Ossi (2020) and portrayed Axmed in Unorthodox and its spin-off Unorthodox: The Next Chapter (2020–2023). In 2021, he joined How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) as Joseph.[3] In 2023, he appeared in Afire, which won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival.
In 2023, Uibel made his professional theater debut in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Vienna’s Burgtheater, directed by Barbara Frey. He previously participated in youth productions at Berlin’s Schaubühne.[1]
In addition, Uibel co-manages the Dalston Jazz Bar in London with his father, Robert Beckford.[2][3] He has written about diversity in the film industry and contributed political opinion pieces to GQ Germany, Vogue, and Noizz.de.
Langston joins the Apple TV show Hijack for the second season.[5][6]