--- name: "Adam Bousdoukos" canonical: "https://film.one/person/adam-bousdoukos" fi1m_id: "adam-bousdoukos" imdb_id: "nm0100196" tmdb_id: 5498 wikidata_id: "Q72883" roles: ["Actor"] born: "25 January 1974" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-26T18:18:18.523802+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Adam Bousdoukos ## Identity Adam Bousdoukos - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/adam-bousdoukos - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** adam-bousdoukos - **IMDb ID:** nm0100196 - **TMDB ID:** 5498 - **Wikidata ID:** Q72883 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Bousdoukos, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72883, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0100196/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5498 Actor. Born 25 January 1974 in Hamburg, Germany. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 25 January 1974, Hamburg, Germany - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Bousdoukos, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72883, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0100196/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5498 ## Streaming the US now - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Head-On*](https://film.one/film/head-on.md) (72) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Adam Bousdoukos is a German actor of Greek origin, born on 25 January 1974 in Hamburg. He grew up in the Altona district and trained at the Stage School Hamburg after appearing in commercials as a teenager. Bousdoukos made his feature debut in Fatih Akin's *Short Sharp Shock* (1998), for which he shared the Bronze Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival with co-stars Mehmet Kurtuluş and Aleksandar Jovanovic; the trio later received the Grimme-Preis in 2001. He has appeared in nearly all of Akin's films, including a leading role and co-writing credit on *Soul Kitchen* (2009). Other credits include *Head-On* (2004) as Barmann, *In July* (2000), *Kebab Connection* (2004), *Chalet Girl* (2011), *In the Fade* (2017) and *The Golden Glove* (2019). He ran the Greek restaurant Sotiris in Hamburg-Ottensen for nearly ten years and has supported the Soul Kids charity since 2009. *Sources: filmportal.de, de.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Head-On* (2004), Fi1m 72, as Barmann — [page](https://film.one/film/head-on.md) ## Complete filmography (61) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Billie* (2026), as Lewinsky - *Police* (2025), as Kostas - *The consulate of Julia* (2023), series, as Stratos Razinis - *Mein Vater, der Esel und ich* (2023), Actor - *German Genius* (2023), series, as Adam Bousdoukos - *A Summer in Crete* (2023), as Markos Dermizakis - *Skin Deep* (2023), as Kapitän - *Rhinegold* (2022), as JVA Guard - *All for Ella* (2022), as Restaurant-Chef - *Spätzle arrabbiata - oder eine Hand wäscht die andere* (2021), series, as Pipo Rossi · Creator - *Die drei Königskinder* (2019), as Hans - *Smuggling Hendrix* (2019), as Yiannis - *The Golden Glove* (2019), as Lefteris - *Unsere Jungs - Auch Strippen will gelernt sein* (2018), as Cem - *SOKO Potsdam* (2018), series, as Vojtech Drulak - *EneMe* (2018), as Ben - *SOKO Hamburg* (2018), series, as Marco Wemmer, Deniz Tokmak - *Vielmachglas* (2018), as Hotelbesitzer - *Rude Boys* (2018), as Adam - *In the Fade* (2017), as Knacki - *A Summer in Cyprus* (2017), as Elyas Basdekis - *Dimitrios Schulze* (2016), as Dimitrios Schulze - *Mein Sohn, der Klugscheißer* (2016), as Marco Schmitz - *Hubert und Staller - Unter Wölfen* (2016), as Stefan Wilde - *V8 - Revenge of the Nitros* (2015), as Angelo Michele - *Highway to Hellas* (2015), as Panos - *Super-Dad* (2015), as Alexander Georgis - *Wednesday 04:45* (2015), as The Driver - *Sibel & Max* (2015), series, as Mike Brandt - *The Cut* (2014), as Priest in Caravan - *Ein Geschenk der Götter* (2014), as Dimitri - *The Chosen Ones* (2014), as Thomas - *V8 - Start Your Engines* (2013), as Angelo Michele - *Crime Stories* (2013), series, as Manolis - *Vatertage - Opa über Nacht* (2012), as Nektarios - *Chalet Girl* (2011), as Willy - *Es war einer von uns* (2010), as Yanis - *Der letzte Bulle* (2010), series, as Lutz Görnemann - *SOKO Stuttgart* (2009), series, as Robert 'Rocky' Hofer - *Dicke Hose - Big Trouble in Little Ottensen* (2009), as Adam - *Soul Kitchen* (2009), as Zinos Kazantsakis · Writer - *Die Schimmelreiter* (2009), as Panaiotis - *Kebab Connection* (2004), as Valid - *Head-On* (2004), as Barmann — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/head-on.md) - *Wie krieg ich meine Mutter groß?* (2004), as One Night Stand - *Der Ärgermacher* (2003), as Grieche - *Unsre Mutter ist halt anders* (2003), as Piet - *Solino* (2002), as Partygast aus Hamburg - *Das Duo* (2002), series, as Mario - *Edel & Starck* (2002), series, as Luigi Ferrara - *Abschnitt 40* (2001), series, as Oliver Pankutz - *SOKO Leipzig* (2001), series, as Thorsten Weingarten - *Die Hässliche* (2000), as Florian - *In July* (2000), as Sänger im Club - *The Peppercorns* (1999), series, as Carlo, Miltos Sarantakos - *The Last Flight* (1999), Actor - *Short Sharp Shock* (1998), as Costa - *Sensin – Du bist es* (1995), Actor - *Anwalt Abel* (1988), series, as Max - *Polizeiruf 110* (1971), series, Actor - *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, as Henning ## Gallery - ![Adam Bousdoukos](https://film.one/media/person/3934175/gallery-d3e7c9ec49fd.jpg) Adam Bousdoukos — nicolas genin from Paris, France, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Adam_Bousdoukos.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Schauspieler Adam Bousdoukos während der Dreharbeiten zu dem Fernsehfilm Dimitrios Schulze in den Hallen und Büroräumen der Spedition Habicht (Seckenheimer Land (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/3934175/gallery-fe6f8bc4b0f6.jpg) Schauspieler Adam Bousdoukos während der Dreharbeiten zu dem Fernsehfilm Dimitrios Schulze in den Hallen und Büroräumen der Spedition Habicht (Seckenheimer Land (2015) — de:Benutzer:Smalltown Boy (Diskussion), CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Adam_Bousdoukos_Mannheim.jpg/1280px-Adam_Bousdoukos_Mannheim.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Schauspieler Adam Bousdoukos während der Dreharbeiten zu dem Fernsehfilm Dimitrios Schulze in den Büroräumen der Spedition Habicht (Seckenheimer Landstraße 204) (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/3934175/gallery-b1cbb25a4430.jpg) Schauspieler Adam Bousdoukos während der Dreharbeiten zu dem Fernsehfilm Dimitrios Schulze in den Büroräumen der Spedition Habicht (Seckenheimer Landstraße 204) (2015) — de:Benutzer:Smalltown Boy (Diskussion), CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Bousdoukos_Schulze_Mannheim.jpg/1280px-Bousdoukos_Schulze_Mannheim.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Adam Bousdoukos](https://film.one/media/person/3934175/gallery-f6045127d80a.jpg) Adam Bousdoukos — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Other awards — 0 won, 2 nominated - European Film Award for Best Film 2010: European Film Award for Best Film (nominated), for *Soul Kitchen* - European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2010: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *Soul Kitchen* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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