Biografía
Patrick Dewayne is an actor, director, and producer born in Germany. He spent most of his childhood in Frankfurt, where he received creative training in music, acting, and dance. During school, he joined choirs, founded a hip-hop dance-performance group, and created a theatre group that performed and arranged plays and musicals. After completing high school in Germany, he apprenticed in banking in Frankfurt and worked as a stock trader and Market Maker at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. After leaving banking, he traveled to the US and Australia to study acting, film, and television in Los Angeles and Brisbane. On Australia's Gold Coast, he filmed his first music video, "Let This Love Be Real," with award-winning director Chris O'Kelly. Returning to Germany, he joined the popular daily soap "Gute Zeiten - Schlechte Zeiten." In 2004, he released the hit single "Alles was bleibt," which reached the Top 20 in Germany and Europe, along with his album "Close Up."
In 2006 and 2007, Dewayne collaborated with director Fernando Scarpa, performing as a preacher and Malcolm X in the musical "Martin Luther King - The King of Love." In January 2008, he worked with renowned L.A. acting coach Ivana Chubbuck.
From 2009 onward, Dewayne also worked as a host and presenter for NGOs, earning the Best TV Host Germany award in 2014. He is featured daily as a stock exchange correspondent on the German TV network WELT, providing updates on global financial markets. Despite his broadcasting career, acting remains his passion. He has appeared in internationally acclaimed shows and films such as "The Heavy Load," "Tatort," and the ARTE/ZDF banking miniseries "Bad Banks" in 2017 and 2018.
