Sky du Mont

Sky du Mont (born Cayetano Neven du Mont; 20 May 1947) is a German actor.

Sky du Mont
du Mont in 2011
Born
Cayetano Neven du Mont

(1947-05-20) 20 May 1947
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Other namesSky DuMont
Spouse(s)
    Helga Lehner
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    (m. after 1972, divorced)​
      Diane Stolojan
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      (m. 1992; div. 1995)​
        Cosima von Borsody
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        (m. 1995; div. 2000)​
          Mirja du Mont
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          (m. 2000; div. 2016)​
          Websitehttp://www.skydumont.de/

          Early life

          Sky du Mont's family, who is related to the famous publishers DuMont Schauberg, fled the Nazis in the 1930s to South America.[1] He was born in Argentina as the son of a German and the British Chiquita Neven du Mont (1921–2018).[2] He grew up in England,[3] but came to Germany in 1969,[4] where he studied acting between 1969 and 1972 in Munich.

          Career

          In Germany, he is well known for playing suave and urbane, sometimes villainous or shady upper-class-characters since the 1970s.[5] He appeared in three of the commercially most successful German film comedies of all time: In Otto – Der Film (1985) as an aristrocratic-looking swindler, as the villain "Santa Maria" in the Western comedy Der Schuh des Manitu (2001) and in Traumschiff Surprise – Periode 1 (2003), where he reprised his role as "Santa Maria" and played a second role as "William der Letzte", an English duke in the Middle Ages.

          In international cinema, Sky du Mont portrayed the Hungarian businessman Sandor Szavost in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999) and played one of the Nazi killers in The Boys from Brazil (1978). Other international roles include the US-miniseries War and Remembrance as Claus von Stauffenberg and a recurring role in the soap opera General Hospital in the 1980s. Du Mont also made an uncredited appearance in Das Boot as the officer aboard the resupply ship Weser[6] to whom the U-96 Second Watch Officer demonstrates Depth-Charging. While he only appears in the background in the theatrical and director's cut, his full appearance is featured in the uncut mini-series.

          Du Mont also serves as the German narrator of the children series Thomas & Friends. He is also known for his voiceover work for commercials as well as television continuity for German channel Pro 7.

          Personal life

          Sky du Mont lives in Hamburg and has been married four times. In 2016, he separated from his wife Mirja Du Mont, who is also the mother of two of his three children, Tara Neven du Mont and Fayn Neven du Mont.[7] His third and oldest son is named Clemens Neven du Mont.

          He was a member of the Free Democratic Party and supported them in campaigns, but left them in early 2018.[8]

          Selected filmography
          Sky du Mont reading Confessions of Felix Krull in 2005

          Film

          Television

          References
          1. https://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/altona/article131825746/Gentleman-Sky-du-Mont-bittet-nach-Rissen.html
          2. https://www.stern.de/lifestyle/leute/sky-du-mont--grosse-trauer-um-seine-verstorbene-mutter-8414050.html
          3. https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article464138/Wie-Caetano-Bremme-Neven-Dumont.html
          4. https://www.zeit.de/2017/05/sky-du-mont-schauspieler-gehalt-finanzen
          5. https://www.zeit.de/2017/05/sky-du-mont-schauspieler-gehalt-finanzen
          6. https://www.t-online.de/unterhaltung/kino/id_78249190/si_32/foto-show-die-maenner-von-das-boot-frueher-und-heute.html
          7. https://www.n-tv.de/leute/Mirja-du-Mont-erklaert-die-Trennung-von-Sky-article20190742.html
          8. https://www.bz-berlin.de/leute/sky-du-mont-ist-aus-der-fdp-ausgetreten
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