Christopher Nell, born in 1979 in Kaufbeuren in the Allgäu, studied at the Rostock University of Music and Drama from 2002 to 2006. During his studies he worked regularly at the Volkstheater Rostock and the Staatstheater Schwerin. In 2005 Claus Peymann brought him to the Berliner Ensemble, where he was and still is a permanent member of the ensemble for several years and later as a freelance actor in numerous performances under the direction of Claus Peymann, Peter Stein, Leander Haußmann, Robert Wilson, Mona Kraushaar and Manfred Karge. In Robert Wilson's production The Life and Death of Marina Abramović, which premiered at the Manchester International Festival in 2011, he played alongside Willem Dafoe, Anthony Hegarty and Marina Abramović and since then at major theatres worldwide. In 2016 he made his debut in a world premiere of Peter Handke's Die Unschuldigen, ich und die Unbekannte am Rande der Landstraße at the Burgtheater Vienna. In December 2018 he appeared in the tragicomedy Haußmann's Staatssicherheitstheater at the Volksbühne Berlin. Since 2003 he has also been touring with Claudia Graue and Marcus Melzwig as the award-winning a cappella trio Muttis Kinder in German-speaking countries as well as in Singapore, Taiwan, Canada, Great Britain, Romania and Croatia.