Emilio Sakraya
Emilio Sakraya Moutaoukkil (born 29 June 1996), also known as Emilio, is a German actor and singer.

 Biography 
Sakraya, whose mother Meryem is from Morocco and his father from Serbia, was born in 1996 in Berlin and grew up there. His parents are separated, he has several half-siblings one of them being actor Ilyes Raoul. As a child, he spent the summer with his family in Morocco and attended the Annie Heuser Waldorf School in Wilmersdorf.

He started his career when he was nine years olf, making his first appearance in 2005 in the commercial Tell Children. As a child he also developed a passion for karate and kung-fu, he won a German championship in karate in the version of the World Kickboxing Association (WKA) in 2010. That same year he also made his first appearance in a movie, in the Zeiten ändern dich directed by Bernd Eichinger.

According to his own account, he started playing the piano, guitar and drums at the age of eleven and joined a school band, at the age of 15 or 16 he started to write his own songs. In May 2016 he released his debut single Down by the Lake.  At the end of the year Emilio decided to stop using his surname, Moutaoukkil, publicly and instead use his middle name as his stage name.

In January 2017 he played a leading role in the episode Tatort Saarland's episode Sons and Fathers.

Sakraya took over the leading role in the film Kalte Füße at the beginning of 2018, directed by Wolfgang Groos, starring along Heiner Lauterbach and Sonja Gerhardt.  In the summer he starred in the NDR Tatort episode The Missing Child in Göttingen. For his performances he was nominated for the Studio Hamburg Nachwuchspreis.

2019 Sakraya played JC in the new international Netflix drama series Warrior Nun, created by Simon Barry. That year he also was on of the main characters in Philip Koch’s new series Tribes of Europa.

During the summer of 2020 he shot the film Die Rettung der uns bekannten Welt directed by Til Schweiger, taking the lead role. On September 18, 2020, his debut album Roter Sand was released by Jive Records.

In 2022 Emilio was elected by EFP for the Shooting Stars Award. In the same year, Fatih Akin’s feature film Rheingold was released, in which Sakraya played the lead role of gangsta rapper Xatar.

During 2024 he starred in Schlag den Star, loosing to Bausa, and Sing meinen Song – Das Tauschkonzert.

Sakraya is the father of a son.

 Filmography 

 Cinema 

 2008: Speed Racer
 2010: Zeiten ändern dich
 2013: V8 – Du willst der Beste sein
 2013: Der Prinz von Gmünd (short film)
 2014: Bibi & Tina: Voll verhext!
 2016: Bibi & Tina: Mädchen gegen Jungs
 2017: Bibi & Tina: Tohuwabohu Total
 2017: Rock My Heart – Mein wildes Herz
 2018: Heilstätten
 2018: Meine teuflisch gute Freundin
 2018: Kalte Füße
 2021: Die Rettung der uns bekannten Welt
 2021: One Night Off
 2022: Lieber Kurt
 2022: Rheingold
 2024: 60 Minuten

 Television 

 2012: Die Draufgänger (tv series, episode Family Ties)
 2014: Kein Entkommen (tv film)
 2014: Die Detektive (tv series, 1 episode)
 2015: Mitten in Deutschland: NSU (miniserie, 1 episode)
 2015: Letzte Ausfahrt Sauerland (tv series)
 2016: Die siebte Stunde (tv film)
 2016: Löwenzahn (tv series, 1 episode)
 2016: Die Opfer – Vergesst mich nicht (2nd episode of the trylogy Mitten in Deutschland: NSU)
 2016: Solo für Weiss – Die Wahrheit hat viele Gesichter
 2016: Winnetou – Der Mythos lebt 
 2017: Tatort: Father & Son
 2017: 4 Blocks
 2017: Ferien vom Leben (tv film)
 2017: Der Schweinehirt (tv film)
 2019: Tatort: The missing child
 2020–2022: Warrior Nun
 2021: Tribes of Europa
 2024: Sing meinen Song – Das Tauschkonzert
 2024: Those About to Die 

 Discography 
+ Title Album details Peak chart positions GER AUT SWI Roter Sand Released: September 18, 2020
 Label: Jive Records (Sony) 40  47  86  1996Released: July 1, 2022
 Label: Jive Records (Sony)191732 BlessingsReleased: April 19, 2024
 Label: Jive Records (Sony)81550

 External links 

 
 Emilio Sakraya at filmportal.de
 Emilio Sakraya at castupload.com

 References 

Category:Living people
Category:1996 births
Category:Male actors from Berlin
Category:German male actors
Category:German male film actors
Category:German male television actors
Category:German child actors
Category:German singers
Category:German people of Moroccan descent
Category:German people of Serbian descent