Joel Basman

Biography

Joel Basman is a Swiss actor born on January 23, 1990, to a Swiss Christian mother and an Israeli-Jewish father. He began his career in 2004 with the soap opera Lüthi und Blanc, playing the role of Zizou. His breakthrough came in 2007 with director Tobias Ineichen's film Jimmie, where he played an autistic boy, followed by notable roles in films like Luftibus and Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter.