Acting

Manuel Santos Gelke

Manuel Santos (born February 10, 2005, in Berlin; born as Manuel Philipp Santos Gelke) is a German actor. Santos began acting at a young age. At the age of eleven, he signed with an acting agency and, following an audition, landed the lead role of Otto in the feature film *Benjamin Blümchen*. Filming took place in 2017. In 2018, he took on the lead role of Karl Vierstein in the film *TKKG*. This was followed by further appearances in television productions, including the hospital series *Nachtschwestern* and, in 2024, the first season of *Das Küstenrevier*.