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Oliver Alexander Reinhard Petszokat (born August 10, 1978, in Berlin), better known by his stage name Oli P., is a German actor, singer, and presenter. Oliver Petszokat was born and raised in Berlin-Spandau. He is the son of a policeman who worked as an instructor at a police school. His mother passed away in 2021 at the age of 69. At the age of ten, he began competitive dancing; his greatest dancing success came in 1995 as a participant in the winning team for the Youth Team Cup of the North Rhine-Westphalia Dance Sport Association. In 1999, Petszokat married former Unter uns actress Tatiani Katrantzi. They have a son together, Ilias (born February 1999). The couple separated in November 2007 and divorced in 2009. Since 2009, he has been in a relationship with his new partner, former figure skater Pauline Schubert, whom he married on August 7, 2014. The two own a delicatessen store for dogs in Cologne's Südstadt. Schubert underwent surgery to remove a brain tumor in early 2020. Television He achieved his first successes as an actor starting in 1996 in the daily soap opera Alle zusammen – jeder für sich, which aired on RTL II. Through his role as Ricky Marquart in the RTL series Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten, which he played from 1998 to 1999, he quickly became a heartthrob. In 2002, Petszokat founded the internet platform 23HeadZtorms GmbH in Berlin. In 2003, he played a leading role in the German film Motown and was a jury member on the ZDF casting show Die deutsche Stimm