Swen Temmel (born August 25, 1991, in Graz, Austria) is an Austrian–American actor and producer. He is best known for roles in the films After (2019), Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023), and Den of Thieves 2: Pantera (2025). As a producer, he earned a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Digital Drama Series for the soap opera The Bay in 2020.
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Early life
Temmel was born in Graz, Austria. His father Charly Temmel, a restaurateur who managed Arnold Schwarzenegger's restaurant Schatzi on Main in Santa Monica, California. The family relocated to the United States in 1997. He attended Santa Monica Elementary School and graduated from Malibu High School. He became a naturalized United States citizen in 2018. He currently resides in Brentwood, Los Angeles, with his wife, Vanessa Temmel.
Education and training
Temmel completed a two-year acting program at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in West Hollywood, CA, studied improvisation and comedic performance at The Groundlings in Hollywood, and attended a Shakespeare course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London.
Career
Stage
Temmel began his performance career on stage. He appeared in productions including The Laugh Lines, Master Harold...and the Boys and The Sunshine Boys sharing the stage with Dick Van Dyke in the latter production at the Malibu Stage Company, the musical Legally Blonde at the Marilyn Monroe Theatre.
Film
Temmel gained wider recognition in the 2019 romantic drama After, based on the novel by Anna Todd, playing the role of Jace; he also served as an executive producer on the film. His other film credits include Backtrace (2018), 10 Minutes Gone (2019), Hard Kill (2020), Force of Nature (2020), and Survive the Game (2021).
He appeared in American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally (2021) as attorney Billy Owen, and co-produced Aileen Wuornos: American Boogeywoman, for which he received a nomination at the 2022 Septimius Awards for Best American Actor. In 2022 he appeared in Bandit and served as an executive producer, and played Elvis Kincaid in Savage Salvation.
In 2023 he had a minor role in Guy Ritchie's The Covenant as "Team Member Joe". In 2024 he appaeared in the western Outlaw Posse and the crime-comedy The Clean Up Crew. In 2025 he played Milan Lovren and served as executive producer on Den of Thieves 2: Pantera.
Television
Temmel had a recurring role as Logan on the digital daytime drama series The Bay (2018–2020). As an executive producer of the series he received the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Digital Drama Series at the 47th Daytime Emmy Awards in 2020; the series also received nominations in 2019 and 2021.
Filmography
Awards and nominations
46th Daytime Emmy Awards (2019)—Nominated Outstanding Digital Drama Series, The Bay (as executive producer)
47th Daytime Emmy Awards (2020)—Winner Outstanding Digital Drama Series, The Bay (as executive producer)
48th Daytime Emmy Awards (2021)—Nominated Outstanding Digital Drama Series, The Bay (as executive producer)
Septimius Awards (2022) — Nominated Best American Actor for American Traitor:The Trial of Axis Sally
