Wayne Carpendale

Wayne Howard Carpendale (born 3 March 1977 in Frechen) is a German actor and entertainment host. He is the son of pop singer Howard Carpendale.

Biography

Wayne Carpendale studied at the Stowe boarding school in Buckingham, England, from 1992 to 1995, and graduated with an English university entrance qualification. There he first came into contact with acting when he took part in the school musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. After graduating from high school, Carpendale initially studied business administration at the University of Applied Sciences for Management (WHU) in Vallendar. He also completed his intermediate diploma at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. He dropped out of his studies after completing his intermediate diploma to pursue acting. In 1999, Carpendale took acting classes at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute in New York.

After a three-year relationship with Yvonne Catterfeld from 2004 to 2007, Carpendale has been in a relationship with presenter Annemarie Carpendale since November 2007 and has been married since September 28, 2013.^[1][2] The two have a son named Mads together.

Career

Carpendale became known through the soap opera Unter uns, where he played the role of Maximilian Pfitzer from February 2000 to October 2001. He also appeared in the hospital series alphateam - The life savers in the operating room and in various television productions such as The Crystal Princess. In 2003 he portrayed Old Surehand at the Karl May Theater in Bad Segeberg.

From November 2005 to May 2007 he played one of the main roles in the ARD series Sturm der Liebe, appearing in 60 episodes until his character was killed off. At the end of 2007 through April 2008, he returned as the twin brother of his deceased character. In 2006, Carpendale played the role of Dirk Scheerer on Unser Charly. During the show's summer break, he took on the male lead in the Rosamunde Pilcher film The Love of Her Life, directed by Michael Steinke.

From January 2009 to May 2013 he played the title character Dr. Jan Bergmann in the series The Country Doctor. He has had additional guest roles in other television series. In the summer of 2013 and 2014 he appeared again at the Karl May Festival, this time playing the main role of Old Shatterhand.

2006: Let’s Dance

In 2006, Wayne Carpendale was a participant in the first season of the RTL show Let's Dance. His dance partner was the Swedish professional dancer Isabel Edvardsson. In the final, the couple defeated actress Wolke Hegenbarth and her dance partner Oliver Seefeldt.

As a host

From October to December 2006 he hosted the eight-part Saturday evening show Dancing on Ice on RTL with Mirjam Weichselbraun. Since July 2014 he has hosted the new edition of the show Deal or No Deal and from December 2014 to February 2015 the new edition of Only Love Counts. He also hosted the new edition of Save the Million! under the title Keep Your Money. Since September 11, 2015, he has hosted the show Superkids - The Biggest Little Talents in the World. In 2016, he and his wife hosted the show Ran an den Mann for two seasons.

Filmography

Acting roles

Television appearances

Theater

• 2003: Karl-May-Spiele Bad Segeberg; Role: Old Surehand
• 2013–2014: Karl-May-Spiele Bad Segeberg; Roll: Old Shatterhand

Social engagement

• Since 2004 Carpendale has been a supporter of Aktion Mahlzeit
• Since 2007 he has been an ambassador of the Deutschen Kinderpreises for the broadcast commissioner of the Protestant Church in Germany und World Vision Deutschland.^[3]
• Since 2018 he has been involved with McDonald's Kinderhilfe Stiftung and he and his wife Annemarie are patrons of Ronald McDonald Haus München-Großhadern^[4]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wayne Carpendale.

• Wayne Carpendale at IMDb
• Official website (in German)

This page was last edited on 28 January 2024, at 00:31