Gallery
All Pictures (19)Biography
Thomas Schubert, born on 15 August 1993 in Vienna, came to acting by chance: at the age of 17 he accompanied a friend to the casting of Karl Markovics' feature film "Atmen" ("Breathing", AT 2011), for which the producers explicitly sought an amateur actor to play the lead role. Schubert was selected for the leading role of a young prisoner who accepts a job in a Viennese funeral home after his release. It was of great importance to director Markovics that Schubert’s performance was as authentic as possible, which is why he only received basic training in breathing and facial expressions. "Atmen" premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 in the Quinzaine des réalisateurs section and received very positive reviews; also Schubert's performance was well received. At the Sarajevo Film Festival and at the Austrian Film Prize he was awarded Best Actor.
After this success, Schubert dropped out of high school before graduating to become a full-time actor. In Andreas Prochaska's award-winning alpine western "Das finstere Tal" ("The Dark Valley", AT/DE 2014) he had a central role as a mountain farmer's son. Nikolaus Leytner cast him in the family drama "Am Ende des Sommers" (AT/DE 2015) as an 18-year-old student who finds out that he was conceived during a rape. In the coming-of-age film "Chucks" (AT 2015) Schubert had a leading role as a punk and squatter, in the biopic "Egon Schiele: Tod und Mädchen" ("Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden", AT/LU 2016) he impersonated the painter Anton Peschka. The NS drama "Nebel im August" ("Fog in August", 2016), based on true events, showed him as the compliant assistant of a euthanasia doctor. Schubert also played an important role in the TV four-parter "Pregau - Kein Weg zurück" (2016), as a mentally unstable young man who wants to solve the mysterious accidental death of his sister. In addition, he repeatedly guest starred in series such as "SOKO Kitzbühel" and "Der Bozenkrimi".
Thomas Schubert had a leading role in Jan Bonny's dark drama "Wintermärchen" ("Germany. A Winter's Tale", 2018), as a young right-wing radical who starts murdering migrants and foreigners together with his girlfriend and a friend. After this, Schubert was part of the ensemble of Ulrich Köhler's family story "Das freiwillige Jahr" ("A Voluntary Year", 2019).
In early 2020, he was awarded a special prize at the German Film Critics' Award for his performance in "Wintermärchen" together with Jean-Luc Bubert and Ricarda Seifried.
After several television roles, among others as a nurse instrumentalized by a murderess in the "Tatort" episode "Gefangen" (2020), Schubert was seen in the feature film "Windstill" (2020) as the out of his depth and unfaithful partner of the female lead character.
Dominik Graf cast him as a suspected serial killer in the "Polizeiruf 110" episode "Bis Mitternacht" (2021); in the highly acclaimed character study "Axiom" (2022), he played the work colleague of a notorious liar. In Jan Bonny's satirical streaming series "Kind of Stonks" (2022), which is based on the Wirecard scandal, Thomas Schubert was given a leading role as an IT manager who becomes entangled in a web of corruption shortly before a major career move. Christian Petzold's "Roter Himmel" ("Afire") premiered in the Berlinale competition in 2023, a friendship story with Schubert in the role of an author dissatisfied with himself.