Jan Liem

Jan Liem, actually Sun Jan Wonosutanto (born 1989 in Cologne) is a German actor. Jan Liem was born under the bourgeois name Sun Jan Wonosutanto as the son of Indonesian parents and grew up in his native city Cologne. His ancestors had once immigrated from China to Indonesia. He attended the Schiller Gymnasium Cologne, where he was a member of the cabaret ensemble "Schillers Gallensteine". In 2007 he stood in the production Ich schlamt euch! for the first time on a stage From 2010 to 2012 he attended the Film Acting School Cologne, which he graduated with distinction. He also took part in various film workshops (including in the United States and Portugal) and received singing lessons. His entry into the film and television business began with a small role in the ZDF crime series Marie Brand (2013) and with appearances in some short films. In order to "make a financial difference" in the early days, he also worked as a salesman, bartender and model.In the ZDF's Katie Fforde film series, he played a supporting role in the film Bruderherz (2017) as an ambitious assistant and secretary of a well-known photography professor at the side of Peter Sattmann, Anja Knauer and Lucas Reiber. He had episode roles in the TV series Ein Fall von Liebe (2014, as production employee Huang at the side of Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey), Meuchelbeck (2015, as bakery apprentice Hiru), Einstein (2017, as Asian Mafioso Tsao), Blaumacher (2017, as Yaros Bruder) and Club der roten Banden (2017, as police officer). He took over one of the episodes of the ZDF series SOKO Potsdam (2019) as a suspected student and brother of a young woman from Laos, who has to work as a prostitute in Germany. Liem also plays theatre. In 2016 he performed in the lead role of the song Liling in a stage version of M. Butterfly at the Mayen Burgfestspiele. In 2018 he made his debut at the Stuttgart Schauspielbühne as a Chinese-born banker Chao Ling in the play Monsieur Claude and his daughters in the comedy in the Marquardt. His hobbies include fitness and various Asian martial arts such as Wing Chun. FC Köln and the German national football team of the men. Jan Liem lives in Cologne.