Elijah Knight

Playing age: 25-35

Height: 5 feet 7 inches (170.2cm)

Nationalities: Swiss-German

Appearance: Scandinavian, White

Eye colour: Green

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Actors biography:

Elijah Knight is known for the Paramount+ Show “Miss Fallaci” (2025), “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 Switzerland based actor to be in the first ever Italian Paramount+ Show and with “Unbreak My Heart”, he was also the first ever european actor to be in the biggest coproduction in Phillipino History (Nr. 1 on streaming platform VIU 2023).

Internationally, Elijah is known for his USP (unique selling proposition), which is the following combination:

– 3 Mother Tongues (no accent) : English (US), Français, German & Swiss German

– Physicality (performs own stunts/Special Forces background)

– Comedy & Drama: Range from Shakespeare to Slapstick (own comedy shows)

Elijah was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, and grew up in Boston, USA, Basel, Switzerland and Vienna, Austria. He spent his teenage years as an ice hockey goaltender and credits a big part of his acting journey to his hockey days. Just as on the ice, the camera will catch your biggest saves, but it will also catch you if you try to cheat. And just like it’s about a team win in hockey, it’s always about the production as a whole – there are no small parts.

After having played Junior Hockey in Utah (USA), he served as a Ranger in the Swiss Armed Forces and his career started with sketch shows in which he impersonated military officers. Soon after that, he studied Business at the Ivy League University of St. Gallen from which he graduated 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, Elijah took a sabbatical to China to expand his acting skills overseas and add some martial arts to his repertoire. The last decade, he has been establishing himself as a film and TV actor in numerous European films and shows such as “RTL I Can See Your Voice”, “The Safe” and “Esgeschah am… Das Attentat von Zug” whilst simulatneously building a presence in LA.

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, amongst others.

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