Tobias Moretti

TV Actor

MINI BIO :

Tobias Moretti was born on July 11, 1959 in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria. He is an actor, known for Kommissar Rex (1994), A Hidden Life (2019) and The Hard Cops (2004). He has been married to Julia Moretti since August 31, 1997. They have three children.

Born in Gries am Brenner, Tyrol, Moretti is the eldest of four brothers, including Thomas, Christoph and fellow actor Gregor Bloéb. Since 1997, he has been married to Julia Moretti (née Wilhem), an oboist. They have three children, Antonia (born August 1998), Lenz Valentino (born February 2000) and Rosa Cäcilia (born February 2011). His professional surname comes from his mother, who is of Italian descent.

Moretti studied composition at the Vienna University of Music and Applied Arts, then went to Munich to train for the stage at the renowned Otto-Falckenberg-Schule. After graduation he was a permanent member of the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel ensemble (Frank Baumbauer) and played at the Munich Kammerspiele (Dieter Dorn) from 1985 to 1995 where he earned critical praise in a sweeping variety of productions, appearing in Bertolt Brecht's Man is Man, Achternbusch's Der Frosch (The Frog) and playing the lead in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida.

Moretti appeared in the TV series Inspector Rex from 1994 to 1998 as Richard Moser, the main policeman in the murder unit.

About

Austrian actor who starred during the 1990s in the television series, Inspector Rex.

Before Fame

He studied music composition at the Vienna University of Music and Applied Arts before training in stage acting at Munich's Otto-Falckenberg Schule.

Trivia

He was born to an Italian mother and an Austrian father (his birth name was Tobias Bloéb, and he later took his mother's surname), and he grew up speaking Italian, German, and English.

• Lives on a 400-year-old farm near Innsbruck.
• Speaks German, Italian and English fluently.
• Has three children named Antonia Moretti (1998), Lenz Valentin (2000) and Rosa Cäcilia (2011).
• Brother of actor Gregor Bloéb, who took their father's surname. "Moretti" is their mother's maiden name.
• Enjoys riding horses, climbing, skiing, motorbiking and martial arts.
• After studying composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, he attended acting lessons at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich, where he was ensemble member at the Kammerspiele.
• Born to Waltraud Bloéb-Moretti and Harry Bloéb, he is the oldest of four brothers. His brothers are named Thomas, Christioph and Gregor.
• Also successful stage actor in different roles at the Salzburg Theatre Festival.
• After an injury on stage during a performance at the Vienna Burgtheater, his leg had to be operated on (2006).

Family Life

He married musician Julia Wilhem in 1997. The couple became parents to two daughters and a son between 1998 and 2011.

Associated With

He starred in William Shakespeare's famous play, Troilus and Cressida, at the Munich Kammerspiele, a prominent German theatre company.