Fabian Busch (born 1 October 1975, Berlin) is a German actor and director. Fabian Busch was born in the district of Treptow and grew up in East Berlin. When he was 13, he appeared as extra in theatre plays. At age 15 and with no acting training, he applied for and received a first casting small film role in Wolfgang Kohlhaase's Inge, April und Mai (Inge, April and May). He was then taken by an agency in 1993 and played his first leading role in Matthias X. Oberg's Unter der Milchstraße (Under the Milky Way), which at the 1995 Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis won the prize of the Saarland Prime Minister. This was followed by key roles in Andreas Dresen's Out of the skin (1997), Hans-Christian Schmid's 23 (1998), Rainer Kaufmann's and Cold Is the Breath of Evening (1999). In 2000, Busch won the