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German actor
Emilio Sakraya
BornEmilio Sakraya Moutaoukkil
(1996-06-29) 29 June 1996 (age 28)
Berlin, Germany
CitizenshipGermany
Occupation(s)Actor, singer
Years active2005-present
Known forTribes of Europa,Warrior Nun, 60 Minutes, Those About to Die
Children1
MotherMeryem Moutaoukkil
RelativesIlyes Raoul (step-brother)

Emilio Sakraya Moutaoukkil (born 29 June 1996), also known as Emilio, is a German actor and singer.

Biography

Sakraya, whose mother Meryem is from Morocco and his father from Serbia, was born in 1996 in Berlin and grew up there. His parents are separated, he has several half-siblings one of them being actor Ilyes Raoul. As a child, he spent the summer with his family in Morocco and attended the Annie Heuser Waldorf School in Wilmersdorf.

He started his career when he was nine years old, making his first appearance in 2005 in the commercial Tell Children. As a child he also developed a passion for karate and kung-fu, he won a German championship in karate in the version of the World Kickboxing Association (WKA) in 2010. That same year he also made his first appearance in a movie, in the Zeiten ändern dich directed by Bernd Eichinger.

According to his own account, he started playing the piano, guitar and drums at the age of eleven and joined a school band, at the age of 15 or 16 he started to write his own songs. In May 2016, he released his debut single Down by the Lake. At the end of the year Emilio decided to stop using his surname, Moutaoukkil, publicly and instead use his middle name as his stage name.

In January 2017, he played a leading role in the episode Tatort Saarland's episode Sons and Fathers.

Sakraya took over the leading role in the film Kalte Füße at the beginning of 2018, directed by Wolfgang Groos, starring along Heiner Lauterbach and Sonja Gerhardt. In the summer he starred in the NDR Tatort episode The Missing Child in Göttingen. For his performances he was nominated for the Studio Hamburg Nachwuchspreis.

2019 Sakraya played JC in the new international Netflix drama series Warrior Nun, created by Simon Barry. That year he was also one of the main characters in Philip Koch’s new series Tribes of Europa.

During the summer of 2020 he shot the film Die Rettung der uns bekannten Welt directed by Til Schweiger, taking the lead role. On September 18, 2020, his debut album Roter Sand was released by Jive Records.

In 2022 Emilio was elected by EFP for the Shooting Stars Award. In the same year, Fatih Akin’s feature film Rheingold was released, in which Sakraya played the lead role of gangsta rapper Xatar.

During 2024 he starred in Schlag den Star, losing to Bausa, and Sing meinen Song – Das Tauschkonzert.

Sakraya is the father of a son.

Filmography

Cinema

Television

Discography

Title Album details Peak chart positions
GER
 AUT
 SWI
Roter Sand 40 47 86
1996 19 17 32
Blessings 8 15 50

External links

References

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  17. "Songs für ein begnadetes Talent". vox.de (in German). 2024-05-21. Retrieved 2024-09-01.
  18. dpa (2024-02-09). "Schauspieler und Sänger: Emilio Sakraya: Habe Vatersein immer geheim gehalten". Die Zeit (in German). ISSN 0044-2070. Retrieved 2024-09-01.
  19. "Suche – Offizielle Deutsche Charts". www.offiziellecharts.de. Retrieved 2024-09-01.
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