Langston Uibel


Langston Uibel is a German-British actor who appeared in films, television series, and theaters. He is known for the Netflix series Dogs of Berlin and Unothodox. and the Apple TV series Hijack.
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Biography

Uibel was born in London, England, to a German mother and a Jamaican father. He lived in London until 2006, when his family moved to Berlin. He completed his Abitur at a bilingual English-German high school in Berlin and chose not to attend university, pursuing acting instead.
Uibel began acting at age nine in the 2008 film Speed Racer, directed by the Wachowskis. In the same year, he played a child soldier in the short film The String Puppet, screened at Berlinale Talents.
In 2013, he appeared in Hanni & Nanni 3 as a boarding school student. In 2014, he had a guest role in the crime series Letzte Spur Berlin. In Freistatt, he portrayed an Afro-German student facing racial harassment. In 2017, he appeared in High Society and played Raphael Bou’Penga in Dogs of Berlin.
Uibel received the Blaue Blume Award in 2018 for his role in Liebesstreifen and the Young Icon Award in 2019 for Dogs of Berlin.
He played Finn in Isi & Ossi and portrayed Axmed in Unorthodox and its spin-off Unorthodox: The Next Chapter. In 2021, he joined How to Sell Drugs Online as Joseph. In 2023, he appeared in Afire, which won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival.
In 2023, Uibel made his professional theater debut in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Vienna’s Burgtheater, directed by Barbara Frey. He previously participated in youth productions at Berlin’s Schaubühne.
In addition, Uibel co-manages the Dalston Jazz Bar in London with his father, Robert Beckford. He has written about diversity in the film industry and contributed political opinion pieces to GQ Germany, Vogue, and Noizz.de.
Langston joins the Apple TV show Hijack for the second season.

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