Jeff Wilbusch

Jeff Wilbusch was born in 1987 in Haifa

Wilbusch was born in Haifa on November 14, 1987, the eldest of 14 children. He grew up in the Satmar Hasidic community of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, where Yiddish was spoken. At 13 he left home, and after a period on the street he lived with secular relatives.

He moved to the Netherlands and studied economics at the University of Amsterdam, earning a master's degree in 2011. He then moved to Munich and studied acting at the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts.

While still a student, he acted in many productions at the Munich Kammerspiele. In 2018 he played Anton Mesterbein in The Little Drummer Girl and Noah Weisz in Bad Banks. In 2020 he played Moishe Lefkovitch in the Netflix series Unorthodox and won a Satellite Award for the role.

In 2021 he played Uri Savir in the HBO film Oslo. In 2022 he appeared in Keep Breathing and played Detective Avraham Avraham in The Calling. In 2026 he appeared in the Netflix series Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen.

He speaks English, Dutch, German, Hebrew and Yiddish. Since 2021 he has lived in Los Angeles.