Emilio Sakraya Moutaoukkil (born 29 June 1996), also known as Emilio, is a German actor and singer.
Biography
Sakraya, whose mother Meryem is from Morocco and his father from Serbia, was born in 1996 in Berlin and grew up there. His parents are separated, he has several half-siblings one of them being actor Ilyes Raoul. As a child, he spent the summer with his family in Morocco and attended the Annie Heuser Waldorf School in Wilmersdorf.[1]
He started his career when he was nine years old, making his first appearance in 2005 in the commercial Tell Children. As a child he also developed a passion for karate and kung-fu, he won a German championship in karate in the version of the World Kickboxing Association (WKA) in 2010.[2] That same year he also made his first appearance in a movie, in the Zeiten ändern dich directed by Bernd Eichinger.[3]
According to his own account, he started playing the piano, guitar and drums at the age of eleven and joined a school band, at the age of 15 or 16 he started to write his own songs.[4] In May 2016, he released his debut single Down by the Lake. At the end of the year Emilio decided to stop using his surname, Moutaoukkil, publicly and instead use his middle name as his stage name.[5]
In January 2017, he played a leading role in the episode Tatort Saarland's episode Sons and Fathers.[6]
Sakraya took over the leading role in the film Kalte Füße at the beginning of 2018, directed by Wolfgang Groos, starring along Heiner Lauterbach and Sonja Gerhardt.[7] In the summer he starred in the NDR Tatort episode The Missing Child in Göttingen.[8] For his performances he was nominated for the Studio Hamburg Nachwuchspreis.[9]
During the summer of 2020 he shot the film Die Rettung der uns bekannten Welt directed by Til Schweiger, taking the lead role.[12] On September 18, 2020, his debut album Roter Sand was released by Jive Records.[13]
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