Patrick Dewayne

Patrick Dewayne is an actor, director and producer. He was born in Germany. He grew up mostly in Frankfurt/Germany where he received a creative education in music, acting and dancing. During school he joint choirs, founded a hip-hop dance-performance group and a theatre group playing, arranging plays and musicals. After finishing German high-school, he made an apprenticeship in the banking business in Frankfurt and worked at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange as a stock trader and Market Maker. After quitting his banking job, he went to the US and Australia where he studied acting, Film & Television in L.A. and Brisbane. At the gold coast Australia, he shot his first own music video (Let this love be real), together with award winning director Chris O'Kelly , came back to Germany and became part of Europe's most popular daily soap "Gute Zeiten - Schlechte Zeiten." He released his hit single "Alles was bleibt" (2004) a Top 20 single in Germany and Europe and his album "Close up" in November 2004. In 2006/2007 he met Director Fernando Scarpa and played in the Musical "Martin Luther King - the king of love" the preacher and Malcolm X. In January 2008, Patrick Dewayne worked together with L.A. acting coach legend Ivana Chubbuck. Starting in 2009, Dewayne also worked for NGO's as a host and presenter, awarded as best TV Host Germany in 2014. Working with the german TV Network WELT, where he is screened daily as a stock exchange correspondent, giving info about the world wide financial markets. But acting always was his passion, so meanwhile he shot the international awarded show and features, 'The heavy load', 'Tatort' and in 2017/2018 the ARTE/ZDF Banking mini series 'Bad Banks'.