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Biography

Size : 170 cm

Hair color: blond
Eye color: green-brown

Education : Tischler Studio Zürich Branch, Giles Foreman Centre for Acting London, Ivana Chubbuck Studio London

Place of residence : Switzerland
Native language: French, English and German (trilingual upbringing)

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Elijah Knight is a Swiss Actor known for "Miss Fallaci" (2024), "Unbreak My Heart" (2023) and the Swiss Lord of the Rings film "Battles of the Fords of Isen" (2022). With "Miss Fallaci", he was the first ever Swiss actor to be in the first ever Italian Paramount+ Show and with "Unbreak My Heart", he was also the first ever Swiss actor to be in the biggest coproduction in Phillipino History.

 

In Europe, he is known for his ability to act accent-free in French, English and German as well as his athletic and comedic capabilities on camera. After having played Junior Hockey in Utah (USA), he served in the Swiss Armed Forces as a Special Forces Soldier and his career started with sketch shows in which he impersonated military officers. Soon after that, he studied Business at the University of St. Gallen and became an Ensemble member of the StuThe Theater St. Gallen from 2014 to 2017. In 2018, he won the St.Gallen's Got Talent Competition with his comedic cover of Asher Roth's song "I love college".

In 2019, Knight took a sabbatical to China to expand his acting skills overseas and add some martial arts to his acting portfolio. The last 5 years, he has been establishing himself as a film and TV actor in numerous films and shows such as "RTL I Can See Your Voice", "The Safe" and "Es geschah am... Das Attentat von Zug".

 

Elijah Knight has trained at the Giles Foreman Centre for Acting in London, The Groundlings and Ivana Chubbuck Studios in Los Angeles, and the Tischler Studio in Zürich.

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Films

Thug Love    Homosexual Gangster    Pascal Schmidlin – ZFF72
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk2E0pAH6II&feature=youtu.be

Retrograders    Kevin K (drug dealer)    Visual Storytelling Crew – University of St. Gallen (HSG)

Drone    Victim    Cédric Spozio – Filmwerk St. Gallen 

https://youtu.be/Yg6LhbxWGDE

Stadt, Land, Flütsch   Philipp    Visual Storytelling Crew – University of St. Gallen (HSG)

 

Ghost Hunter    Viktor V.    Visual Storytelling Crew – University of St. Gallen (HSG)

 

Written in the Stars   Punk Rocker   Sandro Rossi – SoWasted Productions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuuxOM8-tiM 

 

Mount Yesterday   Francois Belvedere    IMT (HSG)– University of St. Gallen (HSG)

https://youtu.be/tAeFt-64W5Y

2010 - present
Theatre

Container Paris.   Heinrich H.   Sophia Stöckl – Student Theatre St. Gallen

Caligula  Cherea    Alfonso Hophan – Student Theatre St. Gallen

 

Der Gemeindepräsident  Muammar Ghallafi    Benjamin Gertsch – Student Theatre St. Gallen

Uncle Wanja  Iwán Petrówitsch (Uncle Wanja)    Benjamin Gertsch – Student Theatre St. Gallen

 

Earl Öderland  Wolfgang Schweiger   Benjamin Gertsch – Student Theatre St. Gallen

 

MacBeth  MacDuff    Benjamin Gertsch – Student Theatre St. Gallen

Hercules and the Stables of Augia  Cambyses    Benjamin Gertsch – Student Theatre St. Gallen

2010 - present
Commercials

Stockberg    Hat Guy    STÜRMER FOTO    Robert Stürmer 
https://vimeo.com/297178630?fbclid=IwAR1Acb7ajzF7aPEFMbZwEqFKDnI5_2C1K9Ik3mlraRjd_PK1ZZtJZkU5vtU  

Grotto Reale    Cyril (Weird Tinder Date Partner)    Tischgespräche 

Sika    Construction Worker    Undpartner.digital

https://vimeo.com/user12478307/review/277421490/5fa126cb90  

Zukrass.ch    Thug    Galactic-pictures.ch  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6kdqkgo6iY

Dein Robert    Beach Boy   Simon Saner/Ray Kroy – ManinRed Pictures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt3LQaDGYH4&t=10s

 

Aromat  (Student Commercial)  Aromat Man – Media Lab HSG 
https://youtu.be/kiyuDesqcsY

Courses and Training

Meisner Technik - The 7 Basic Emotions Marco Hausamman-Giliardi Zentrum für Entwicklung im Schauspiel (ZES)

Camera Acting Marco Hausammann-Giliardi Zentrum für Entwicklung im Schauspiel (ZES) 

Preparatory Course Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHDK)


Visual Storytelling Film Making Course University of St. Gallen (HSG) 


Private Coaching Marco Hausammann-Gilardi Zentrum für Entwicklung im Schauspiel (ZES)

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