Jannis Niewöhner had his first acting role at the age of ten in a Tartot episode in 2002. He became known to a wider audience through his performance as the time-travelling Gideon de Villiers in the film version of Kerstin Gier's bestselling fantasy time-travel Ruby Red [+see also:
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