Tobias Moretti studied music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (MDW) and then acting at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich. His first engagements took him to the Staatstheater Hannover with Frank Baumbauer, to the Residenztheater Munich and as an ensemble member to the Münchner Kammerspiele. He made his debut at the Vienna Burgtheater in 1995.
This was followed by leading roles in Pancomedia by Botho Strauß, in Peter Turrini's Da Ponte in Santa Fe under the direction of Claus Peymann or in Martin Kušej's production of Grillparzer's King Ottokar at Vienna's Burgtheater, where he has been a member of the ensemble since the 2019/20 season.
In addition to his work in the theater and as an opera director, Moretti has been active in film and television for more than three decades. Moretti has appeared in films such as Workaholic (Director: Sharon von Wietersheim), Krambambuli (Director: Xaver Schwarzenberger), Mortal enemies (Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel), Swabian children (Director: Jo Baier), in the The little lady of Heilbronn (Director: Jürgen Flimm), In the name of my son (Director: Damir Lukačević), Homicide Berlin 1 (Director: Marvin Kren), Your Honor (director: David Nawrath) as well as in many other important film and television productions. He became known to a wide audience as the devil in Everyman at the Salzburg Festival.
Tobias Moretti has received numerous awards, including the Bavarian Television Prize, the Grimme Prize, the German Film Prize Lola, the Grand Acting Prize of the Diagonale, the German Media and Television Prize Bambi, the European Culture Prize and the Austrian Film and Television Prize Romy.
