Jeff Wilbusch

About

Jeff Wilbusch (born November 14, 1987) is a German-Israeli actor. He has starred in numerous English and German film and television projects, including Park Chan-wook’s miniseries The Little Drummer Girl (2018), Unorthodox (2020), Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes (2021) and Netflix’s Something Very Bad is Going to Happen (2026).

Wilbusch was born on 14 November 1987 in Haifa, Israel, as the eldest of 14 children. He grew up in the Yiddish-speaking Hasidic Jewish Satmar community of Mea Shearim, Jerusalem.
At the age of 13, Wilbusch relocated to the Netherlands.
He attended the University of Amsterdam obtaining a Masters degree in Economics in 2011. After finishing his graduate degree, Wilbusch moved to Munich and studied theatre at the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts until 2015.

While studying at the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts, Wilbusch starred in numerous productions staged at the Munich Kammerspiele, working with directors Johan Simons, Stephan Kimmig, and Martin Kušej.
In 2018, he played Anton Mesterbein in the BBC–AMC miniseries The Little Drummer Girl, directed by Park Chan-wook, and starred as Noah Weisz…