Damian Hardung

Damian Hardung (born 7 September 1998) is a German actor.

Early life
Born on 7 September 1998, Hardung is from the city of Cologne. A keen footballer, he was part of the youth academy at SC Fortuna Köln. At the age of 14, he went to New York on a scholarship for gifted students. He later studied medicine.

Career
Hardung made his acting debut at the age of 12 with a couple of short movies such as Der Magische Umhang and Die Könige der Straße. Further screen appearances followed in Transpapa, Unter Frauen, and Die Holzbaronin. He had his first leading role portraying Thomas in 2013's Clara and the Secret of the Bears.

Between 2015 and 2017, Hardung played Jonas Neumann in all three seasons of the VOX television series Club der roten Bänder. This was followed by a lead role in the 2018 film  The Most Beautiful Girl in the World, a modern-day German comedy adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac. He also appeared in the alien-invasion series Spides.

In March 2019, Hardung starred in the RAI television show  The Name of the Rose, as Adso, alongside Rupert Everett and John Turturro. His next role was in the German Netflix series How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast), which aired in May, as Daniel Riffert. Hardung reprised the role in the 2022 spin-off series Buba.

Harding played Winnie Wolf in the 2023 television series Our Wonderful Years. That year, he was cast in a lead role in the television adaptation of Mona Kasten's bestselling novel Save Me. Titled Maxton Hall — The World Between Us, the series was broadcast in 2024 on Amazon Prime Video. It was renewed for a second season in May 2024.

Personal life
His brother Leon also studied medicine and the pair were among those vaccinating the German public during the COVID-19 pandemic. He has campaigned with Greenpeace against climate change, visiting Antarctica in 2022.