The actor, active on stage, television, screen but also musically, completed his apprenticeship as “Eleve” at the Playhouse Cologne under the directorship of Günter Krämer and Torsten Fischer. Manuel Struffolino acted in various short-films and television productions (i.a. “Tatort” (Crime Scene), “Soko Leipzig”, “SK-Kölsch”). Between 2004 and 2007, he was constant ensemble member of the State Theater Gießen. For the last two years he has played as a guest actor on various scenes (i.a. Ernst Deutsch Theater Hamburg, Schloss Neersen Festival, Gießen State Theatre and Karlsruhe State Theatre). After celebrating his first cinema début with the film “Selectivity” (in German ”Trennschärfe”) at the beginning of 2009, he just finished the shooting of the German- American co-production “Neander-Jin”, which is supposed to run in German and American cinemas starting 2011. Furthermore, he had a guest appearance at the Karlsruhe State Theater and newly at the Gostner Court Theater in Nuremberg with the solo act “Thom Pain – based on nothing” (Will Eno, Direction: Andreas Bauer), play which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and had the première at the Gießen State Theater in 2007.