Karim Chérif, born and raised in Frankfurt am Main, holds French and Algerian citizenship. After studying acting at the Berlin University of the Arts, he was first engaged at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, then at the Schauspielhaus in Bochum as a guest, and from 2005 in Vienna as a permanent ensemble member at the Burgtheater. From 2010 freelance works and translations (Wiener Festwochen and others), directorial debut with the DSE of The Sunshine Play by Peca Stefan at TAG Theater in Vienna in collaboration with Wiener Wortstätten. From 2011 Chérif was in Berlin among others as a guest at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm (Wer hat Angst vor Virginia Woolf, Achtung Deutsch…u.a.) and at the Ballhaus Ost (The Final Scream Queen) – and continued to be seen on the Viennese stages (among others in Werk X Unendlicher Spass and Eldorado). In parallel, he worked for cinema/television, e.g. as a protagonist in the ZDF series Verbrechen, which was nominated for the Grimme Award. Starting in the fall, he can be seen as an investigator in the ARD series Die Füchsin, among others. He is currently shooting the international feature film The Lake in Babelsberg. Der klügste Mensch im Facebook is his second directorial effort after The Sunshine Play.