ATHENS, Greece
LUDWIG HERTZ.
Ludwig Hertz was born in Athens, from an Austrian father and a Greek mother. While
he was still a child, they migrated to America.
He studied at the Royal College of Art in London. He was photographed for the cover
of “Photoplay” by Cecil Beaton. He takes a small role in the famous movie “Star
Wars”. He is awarded with the first prize for the prototype costumes in the stage play
“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, and that falls under the celebration of the 150
years from the birth of Lewis Carol. He enters in the U.S.A.’s top 10 “face of the year”
and he is included in its 100 unexplored talents. He took very good reviews for a Standup
Comedy Show at COMIX Theater of New York.
His cover in “People” magazine and his participation in the short film “Give me your
cell phone” makes him famous in various U.S.A. festivals. He’s working in Hollywood
as a stage actor and he is deified in a Hollywood Stand up Comedy at UCB Theater,
where he collects money for the earthquake victims of Chile.
In Europe, he participates in an Italian Photo video clip with Patty Bravo and in a video
clip with Grace Jones. In a Broadway comedy with Meg Ryan and Dustin Hoffman, he
replaces the second.
He is the unique Greek, who gains the TONY prize for the costumes of “Anthony and
Cleopatra” of Shakespeare in London, and also the Film Academy prize for the role of
Wally Cox in the Last Tango with Marlon. It’s the first time that the Film Academy
rewards a theater actor.
His separation with the Universal’s general distribution agent in Europe and the illness
of his mother brings him back to Greece.
He returns back to Greece with the plays “Sweet Marlon”, “Goodbye Tennessee”,
which became the most discussed prototype plays for the years 2013 and 2014. For
2015 he is preparing in Athens the play “LOVE”. “Broken Blossom”, written by
himself. In 2015 performed in U.K “Edward II” by F. Dexter.

.