Louis Hofmann was born in the Bensberg district of Bergisch Gladbach, and grew up in Cologne.His first appearance on TV was for Servicezeit (1997), an evening magazine program on WDR Fernsehen television network. 2 years later, he decided to become an actor and applied to an acting agency and was subsequently represented by Agentur Schwarz.Hofmann guest-starred in legal comedy-drama Danni Lowinski (2010) and television series Der verlorene Vater (2010). He also appeared in the television film Tod in Istanbul (2010) and the TV series Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei (1996)Hofmann's first cinematic leading role was in the Tom Sawyer (2011) by director Hermine Huntgeburth's adaptation of Mark Twain's classic novel. Along with Leon Seidel, who played the role of Huck Finn, he sang on the soundtrack of the film in the song, "Barfuß Gehen" ("Going Barefoot"), and represented the same character in The Adventures of Huck Finn (2012).In 2013, Hofmann played a guest-starring role in an episode of the television series Stolberg (2006). Beginning on 24 October 2013 Hofmann appeared in the comedy The Almost Perfect Man (2013)His role as Wolfgang in film Sanctuary (2015) earned him the 2015 Bavarian Film Prize as Best Newcomer Actor and the 2016 German Actors Award (Deutscher Schauspielerpreis) in the newcomer category. His first international role as a German prisoner of war in the Danish-German co-production Land of Mine (2015) (Danish: Under sandet) earned him the Best Supporting Actor prize at Denmark's Bodil Awards in 2016. At the 2016 German Film Awards, he received with the Special Prize Jaeger-LeCoultre Homage to German Cinema presented to honor the work of German actors in international films.In 2016, Hofmann played Phil in Center of My World (2016), a coming-of-age romantic drama film directed by Jakob M. Erwa, based on the 1998 bestselling novel The Centre of the World by Andreas Steinhöfel. He was presented with a European Shooting Stars Award at Berlinale 2017 by the European Film Promotion organization.He was cast as Jonas Kahnwald in Dark (2017), a science fiction thriller released on Netflix on 1 December 2017 and followed with two seasons. Dark (2017) project was one of four projects he played in a single year, two of them in English.He played the lead role in the German film Prelude (2019). The film tells about the piano student David, who is going through the torments of first love. Hofmann himself described this picture as "a mixture of the films Whiplash and Black Swan". In an interview, he admitted that only after this film he realized what character parts he is drawn to: to a dramatic, suffering character overwhelmed by life circumstances.
Nếu tôi không đóng vai Jonas Kahnwald [trong Dark (2017)] thì tôi đã thích đóng vai Helge, vì Helge cho đến nay là nhân vật tôi yêu thích nhất. Anh ấy là một nhân vật buồn bã, cô đơn và tôi nghĩ điều đó sẽ rất thú vị.
Phỏng vấn viên: Tôi nghe nói bạn là fan của The Police.
Người được phỏng vấn: The Pol…?! Oh yeah! [cười] Tôi nghĩ bạn đang nói đến "cảnh sát" - tôi không rõ về tình hình đó!
Tôi ước rằng tôi có thể nói rằng mình là người thức dậy sớm, nhưng tôi thực sự thích ngủ nướng.
[cho đối tượng nhân vật trong bộ phim Dark (2017) mà anh ấy muốn đóng] Ai không muốn là Noah?! Mọi người đều muốn là Noah. Noah cũng muốn là Noah. Ý nghĩa là, không thể Mark Waschke muốn là ai khác.
Tôi thích những gì đã diễn ra với ngành điện ảnh ở Đức trong những năm gần đây. Chúng ta không còn sợ làm điều gì đó "sai". Điều này có thể thấy rõ trong bộ phim Toni Erdmann: qua ví dụ này, bạn có thể nhìn thấy cách kể chuyện độc đáo của người Đức.
