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Kai Wiesinger, born in Hanover in 1966, is firmly established in the German film industry. He took acting lessons even before he received his Abitur (university/college entry qualification), and successfully completed training as an actor in Munich following school and community service.

He made his theatrical debut in the Bavarian capital in 1990 in Harold and Maude. His cinema debut followed two years later with Kleine Haie, directed by Sönke Wortmann. The film made Kai Wiesinger famous and led to his first Bavarian Film Award.

This was followed by his first international productions such as Backbeat and The Sunset Boys, as well as the German comedy Frauen sind was Wunderbares by Sherry Hormann. With Talk of the Town, Kai Wiesinger was once again involved in a successful German film in 1995. Initially conceived as a TV play, Rainer Kaufmann's comedy quickly developed into a box-office success.

In 1996, Kai Wiesinger gave an outstanding performance in the thriller 14 Tage lebenslänglich, which was acclaimed by both audiences and the press and at the same time meant a change in image for the actor. The role of the arrogant, hotshot lawyer von Seidlitz gave Kai Wiesinger his third Bavarian Film Award (after Kleine Haie 1992 and The Harmonists – Special Award 1998) and a nomination for the German Film Award.

This success was followed by serious films such as Hunger, with Dana Várová making her debut as director. Kai Wiesinger enjoyed international success in 1999 in the much discussed movie After the Truth. Alongside Götz George, Kai Wiesinger played the defence lawyer in a fictitious court case involving the cruel concentration camp physician Josef Mengele. This was followed in 2001 by the second most successful Austrian movie of all time, Poppitz, where he starred alongside Roland Düringer and Marie Bäumer.

Kai Wiesinger has been married to his colleague Chantal de Freitas since 1998. In 1999, he founded the production company "Arranque Filmproduktion" together with his wife and sister.

Kai Wiesinger has appeared in front of the camera in a wide variety of foreign television productions. In England in 2001, he worked with Carl Schenkel on Murder on the Orient Express; in Budapest, he appeared in Dracula for Italian television. He also acted in Fallen Angels, a horror film for Canadian television.

Kai Wiesinger, who appeared in such films as The Reason Why, Unschuld, or in the TV play Gustloff – Ship of No Return, has also lent his voice to the main animal characters in the successful Hollywood productions Dr. Doolittle 2 and Disney's A Bug’s Life.

For the project ERUV - The Wire at the beginning of 2005, Kai Wiesinger assumed the role of director to create a portrait of everyday life in a Jewish community in Teaneck, New Jersey. With this idea, Kai Wiesinger won the Planet Documentary Award. This was followed in 2007 by the documentary Für immer und ewig, as commissioned by North German Broadcasting NDR.

In 2009, Kai Wiesinger could be seen in the two-part German TV play Gier, the fairy tale film Der gestiefelte Kater and the RTL event production Die Jagd nach der heiligen Lanze.

Recently, Kai Wiesinger caused a stir in the film Until Nothing Remains, in which he assumed the role of the scientology lawyer Ruppert.

A year ago, Kai Wiesinger initiated the project "Schärfe deine Sinne", which roughly translated means "Sharpen Your Senses". The aim is to educate children and adolescents through art.