Jeff Wilbusch

Jeff Wilbusch

Jeff Wilbusch is an Israeli-German actor.Wilbusch was born on 14 November 1987 in Haifa, Israel. He grew up in the Hasidic Jewish Satmar community of Mea Shearim, Jerusalem. He is the eldest of 14 siblings. When he was 13, he left the community and moved to Amsterdam to finish his education. He studied economics, and, in 2011, obtained a master's degree in international economics from the University of Amsterdam. After finishing his graduate degree, he moved to Munich and studied theatre at the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts until 2015. In 2018, he played the role of Anton Mesterbein in the BBC - AMC miniseries The Little Drummer Girl, and Noah Weisz in the German-Luxembourgian television series Bad Banks. In 2020, he portrayed Moishe Lefkovitch in the German-American Netflix original miniseries Unorthodox. Wilbusch speaks five languages: English, Dutch, German, Hebrew, and Yiddish. He lives in Berlin.

Movies

Keep Breathing
When a small plane crashes in the middle of the Canadian wilderness, a lone survivor must battle the elements — and her personal demons — to stay alive.
Making Unorthodox
  • Mar 25, 2020
  • English
A look at the making of one of the first series to authentically portray and explore issues in a Hasidic community as they pertain to women's lives.