Ralph Herforth

Ralph Herforth (actually: Ralph Schwachmeier; * 15 January 1960 in Herford) is a German actor. He chose his stage name based on his place of birth. Ralph Herforth was discovered in 1979 when he was an assistant for teaching planning in a Salzburg musical seminar. In the same year he began his training at the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna, which he completed in 1982. He made his first screen debut in 1992 in the film Schattenboxer directed by Lars Becker, followed by various film and television productions with renowned directors such as Fatih Akın, Roland Suso Richter and Friedemann Fromm. He also acted as a supporting actor in larger cinema productions, such as Knockin-on-Heaven-Door, Short and painless and Der Eisbär alongside Til Schweiger before being offered one of the leading roles in Dominik Graf's Der Felsen. In 2005, Herforth played a killer alongside Charlize Theron in Aeon Flux. Ralph Herforth married actress Zora Holt in the summer of 2011. At the end of August of the same year he became father for the third time. The couple lives with their son and daughter in the district of Klosterheide of Lindow (Mark), district of Ostprignitz-Ruppin. From an earlier relationship Herforth has two other sons. He has a twin brother, five minutes younger than Herforth.