Trivia

As cheese is his favorite food, some of the salary for appearing on a Swiss TV commercial for cheese was paid in cheese.

Due to the difficult pronunciation of his name in English, he was credited as Uwe Oxenknecht in some US productions.

His children -together with Natascha- are Wilson Gonzalez (b. 18 Märch 1990) and Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht (b. 27 December 1991), both young actors, and a girl, Cheyenne Ochsenknecht (b. 13 January 2000). His oldest son Rocco Stark (b. 27. Mai 1986) is from a Prior relationship with Rosanna Della Porta.

He has a grandchild, Amalia (b. 11 February 2013), from his son Rocco.

Since the early 1990s, he has also been a successful singer.

Graduated from the Bochum Drama School.

Dropped out of high school.

Both his parents are from East Germany and moved from Saalfeld, Thuringia, to Biblis, Hesse, in 1951.

His father was a trained opera singer and member of the Mannheim opera. He later worked as a precision mechanic for Daimler-Benz.

Was a boy soprano with the choir of the Nationaltheater Mannheim.

Absconded from home, aged eleven, for a year making his way through Spain without money, passport or the ability to speak Spanish.