- After graduating from school, he worked in the real estate industry. His company imported plastic moldings from the USA. After the bankruptcy, the failure of his marriage and a life crisis, he decided to pursue a career as an actor and singer.
- He was a German voice actor, dubbing artist and singer.
- Cohn came from a family of musicians.
- His parents moved with him to Vienna , where he attended the Rudolf Steiner School .
- He became known in 2012 with his sonorous bass voice as the program spokesman for the television talk show Roche & Böhmermann on ZDFkultur , in which he presented the talk guests in clips. Since then he has received in Neo Magazin Royale and Circus HalliGalli also appearances in front of the camera, which increased its popularity among young viewers.
- He was also the German commentator on MTV's new series Fear Factor .
- In 2016, Cohn had a guest role in the German soap opera Lindenstrasse .
- He took on an election commercial for the Bundestag election campaign of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party .
- According to Cohn, his stage name goes back to his Jewish great-great-great-grandmother.
- As an actor, Cohn held smaller roles in television series and films such as Kupetzky and House of Boys , and later in Together Forever and Der Alte . He starred in the short film Der Tag, on which Herr Müller simply couldn't think of anything more, directed by Philipp Käßbohrer , who later became the producer of the Roche & Böhmermann show .
- His performances were legendary: when William Cohn appeared in the studio of "Neo Magazin Royale" in pullovers, some of which were enormously colorful, with very ugly patterns and wearing nerd glasses, the audience cheered.
- In December 2015 it was announced that Cohn was acting as a new digital advertising testimonial for Nissan , from mid-January 2016 this cooperation was also extended to radio advertising .
- He took acting lessons from Juri M. Krasowski at the State Academy for Theater Arts in Saint Petersburg and from Stacey Martino at the Actors Studio West in Los Angeles .
- As a singer he worked among other things from 2005 to 2007 in the musical Ludwig² in the role of the arms dealer Kaspar [8] [9] and for the opera workshop on the Rhine as Zuniga in Carmen .
- The fact that he was deliberately dressed poorly quickly made him a cult figure.
- An ugly sweater, striking glasses - and an unmistakable voice: William Cohn was loved by the audience for his appearances in the programs of Jan Böhmermann and Joko und Klaas.
- From 2013 to 2016 he worked in Jan Böhmermann's program Neo Magazin Royale (until 2014 Neo Magazin ) as a sidekick and speaker. Since 2016 he has only appeared there in clips and less often in direct broadcasts.
- He worked as a spokesman for the mission terra incognita of Ö1 .
- After longtime voice actor Donald Arthur passed away in September 2016, Cohn took over the German voice of Kent Brockman from The Simpsons in November 2016.
- Since May 2015, he could also be heard in the radio comedy 'The best day in the world', broadcast on various ARD channels.
- He studied singing with Hans Blaschke in Munich , with Kurt Rydl in Vienna and Dennis M. Heath in Munich and Los Angeles.
- In March 2014, Cohn took on a part in the television program Circus HalliGalli for two episodes.
- In 2013 he was the voice-over of RTL reality show - Wild Girls on high heels - through Africa.
- Cohn was in 2013 the narrator of the radio play Die Maintöchter by Ulrich Bassenge for SRF, a humorous soap opera about the Wagner family on the occasion of the 200th birthday of the composer Richard Wagner .
- In 2011 he took part in the new edition of the musical Ludwig² , this time in Kempten , again in the role of Kaspar.
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