Jerry Hoffmann was born in Hamburg in 1989. He first studied acting at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich and then transferred to the Berlin University of the Arts. He made his film debut in 2009 with the portrayal of Samir in the feature film Shahada, which was shown as a competition film at the Berlinale in 2010, among others. Since 2011 he can be seen at the Volksbühne Berlin in Schmeiß dein Ego weg by René Pollesch. The serial Wir sind wieder wer (with Heiner Lauterbach and others, directed by Thomas Stuber) won the No Fear Award at the German Young Talent Award First Steps in 2012. In 2012 he shot the TV multi-part Zeit der Helden directed by Kai Wessel, which won the German Television Award. In 2013 he was selected for the Berlinale Talent Campus.