Philipp Hochmair has been a crowd-puller on theater stages for years and was awarded the ROMY by ORF and the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation as Austria's most popular actor. Courier has been honored. His performances in "Jedermann" at the Salzburg Festival are celebrated by audiences and critics alike, and as Joachim Schnitzler in the successful ORF series "Vorstadtweiber", he captured the hearts of television viewers. With his energetic one-man performance "Jedermann Reloaded", he and his band "Elektrohand Gottes" regularly ensure sold-out halls and frenetic applause.
Born in Vienna in 1973, Philipp Hochmair studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar (master student of Klaus Maria Brandauer) in Vienna and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique in Paris. From 2003 to 2009 he was a protagonist at the Vienna Burgtheater and from 2009 to 2016 a member of the ensemble at Hamburg's Thalia Theater. Philipp Hochmair has appeared in numerous cinema and television films and plays the leading role of blind detective Alexander Haller in the crime series "Blind ermittelt".
His biography "Hochmair, wo bist du?", which he wrote together with author Katharina von der Leyen, was published in July 2025.