Ulrich Tukur is an actor and musician from Viernheim, Germany who fell into acting while playing music for some extra money. After he was asked to appear in a play, he soon fell in love with the craft and enrolled in acting school at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in 1980. He made his film debut in the 1982 film Die Weiße Rose, and went on to theater, where he had his breakthrough role in director Peter Zadek's production of Ghetto. For the next decade, he was a staff actor at Deutsches Schauspeilhaus in Hamburg and appeared in starring roles such as Caesar in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Though he has been touring as a musician since 1989, Tukur finally assembled his own band Ulrick Tukur & the Rhythmus Boys in 1995, and continues to create upbeat swing music with the four-piece band.
