Jeff Wilbusch


Jeff Wilbusch is an Israeli-German actor.

Early life and education

Wilbusch was born on 14 November 1987 in Haifa, Israel. He grew up in the Hasidic Jewish Satmar community of Mea Shearim, Jerusalem. Yiddish is his native language, and he is the eldest of 14 siblings.
When he was 13, he left the community and moved to Amsterdam to finish his education. He studied economics, and, in 2011, obtained a master's degree in international economics from the University of Amsterdam. After finishing his graduate degree, he moved to Munich and studied theatre at the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts until 2015.

Career

In 2018, he played the role of Anton Mesterbein in the BBC - AMC miniseries The Little Drummer Girl, and Noah Weisz in the German-Luxembourgian television series Bad Banks. In 2020, he portrayed Moishe Lefkovitch in the German-American Netflix original miniseries Unorthodox.

Personal life

Wilbusch speaks five languages: English, Dutch, German, Hebrew, and Yiddish.
He lives in Berlin.

Filmography

Television

Film