Biography

Martin Halm was born (1961) and raised in Munich. When listening to him speak though, you won't make out any regional or local dialect in his articulate diction which is carried by his signature, gentle voice. Early on in his childhood, Martin Halm began gathering experience in acting and went on to be trained in that profession in both Germany and stateside where he attended the University of California. It was also the latter where he majored in film studies and acquired his fluency in English. He started his career playing the lead in an Italian film for the big screen, Ernesto, which was whelmed by Salvatore Samperi. The German audience came to experience him playing the lead of a 19 year old opposite Heinz Bennent in the suspenseful TV mini-series called Der Fall Mauritius which aired on ZDF network. Ratings went through the roof and Martin Halm became famous overnight. He then worked with prestigious directors like Michael Verhoeven, Sigi Rothemund, Martin Enlen, Roland Suso Richter, Michael Steinke, Florian Gärtner, Matthias Steurer, Uli Moeller to name but a few. The genres of the films he was first cast in were very much in the direction of drama and crime. The mid-nineties brought a lot of TV series that mainly focused on family entertainment and Martin Halm was right at the center of it when he became a series-regular on the popular SAT1 show Für alle Fälle Stefanie.

- IMDb mini biography by: Beate Mittermayer