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Marc Limpach was born on May 3, 1975 in Luxembourg. As a schoolboy, he gained his first acting experience in 1989 in the youth theater group "Namasté", including the lead role in the play "Die Weiße Rose - Hans Scholl" (1993). From 1990 to 1995, he also took courses at the Conservatory in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.
After graduating from high school, Limpach initially took a different career path. From 1990 to 1994, he studied law in Strasbourg, Cologne, Paris and Cambridge, and then worked for an international law firm before joining the Luxembourg Financial Supervisory Authority (CSSF). But even during these years of study and work, he continued to act on the side.
Since 2001, he has regularly appeared in theatrical productions at the Théâtre National du Luxembourg, the Luxembourg Kasemattentheater, and the Ruhrfestspiele. In 2007, he became the dramaturge of the Kasemattentheater.
In the field of film and television, Limpach has taken on small roles since 2004, primarily working as a narrator for documentaries. He has also written fictional and non-fictional texts for theater, film, and television, as well as historical studies, particularly focusing on the contemporary history of Luxembourg. He co-wrote the Luxembourgish sitcom "Weemseesdet" (2011) and wrote the play "En Tiger am Rousegäertchen" (2016) about the takeover of the Luxembourgish steel company Arcelor by the Mittal Steel Company.
His breakthrough in front of the camera came in 2018 with a recurring role as a Luxembourg banker in the highly acclaimed series "Bad Banks" (directed by Christian Schwochow). He also played this role in the second season (2020). Christian Alvart cast him in a supporting role in the thriller "Freies Land" ("Free Country", 2019). In the highly acclaimed youth adventure film "Nachtwald" ("Night Forest", 2021), he played the father of one of the two young protagonists who disappeared without a trace, and in the expressionistic thriller "Hinterland" (AT/LU/BE/DE 2021), he portrayed a Viennese police inspector.
Also directed by Christian Schwochow, Limpach was seen in the historical drama "Munich - The Edge of War" (GB 2021) as Dr. Paul Schmidt, Adolf Hitler's official interpreter at the time. Additionally, set during the Nazi era was Maggie Peren's "Der Passfälscher" ("The Forger", DE/LU 2022), with Limpach in the supporting role of a lawyer who helps people flee Germany. In Margarethe von Trotta's "Ingeborg Bachmann - Reise in die Wüste" ("Ingeborg Bachmann - Journey Into The Desert", CH/AT/DE/LU 2023), he portrayed the writer Tankred Dorst. Christoph Hochhäusler cast him in the lead role in the thriller "Der Tod wird kommen" ("Death Will Come", DE/LU/BE, 2023).