Swen Temmel
Swen Temmel is an actor, born 1991.
Born in Graz in 1991 and now Austrian American, Temmel has built the kind of career that barely existed twenty years ago: a dense, unglamorous run through the direct-to-streaming action economy, where mid-budget thrillers are made fast, star an ageing name or two, and go straight to a platform.
Look at the run from 2018 onward and the shape is obvious. Truby in Backtrace, Baxter in 10 Minutes Gone, Fitzgerald in Breach, Dash Hawkins in Hard Kill, Hodges in Force of Nature, Cal in Survive the Game, Hoffman in Bandit, Elvis Kincaid in Savage Salvation, Chuck in The Clean Up Crew, Willis in Outlaw Posse. He is Cop Number Two in Boss Level and Team Member Joe in Guy Ritchie's The Covenant, which is what supporting work in a real production looks like from the inside. The parts get names and a little more weight as the run goes on, and by Den of Thieves 2: Pantera he is Milan Lovren, in a sequel with a real theatrical release. He plays the same character, Georgios Caras, in both Cash Out and High Rollers.
The more interesting half of his career is behind the camera. As a producer he took a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Digital Drama Series in 2020, for the soap opera The Bay, which is a considerably rarer credit than anything in his acting column and suggests where the ambition actually points.
Movies (19)
- After (2019)
- Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023)
- Boss Level (2021)
- Den of Thieves 2: Pantera (2025)
- High Rollers (2025)
- Backtrace (2018)
- Midnight in the Switchgrass (2021)
- Cash Out (2024)
- Bandit (2022)
- Breach (2020)
- Savage Salvation (2022)
- Force of Nature (2020)
- Hard Kill (2020)
- 10 Minutes Gone (2019)
- Holiguards Saga: The Portal of Force
- American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally (2021)
- The Clean Up Crew (2024)
- Survive the Game (2021)
- Outlaw Posse (2024)
Where to start with Swen Temmel
There is no prestige entry point here, so pick by what you want. For the best-made film he appears in, Guy Ritchie's The Covenant, with the caveat that his role is a small one inside a large unit. For the largest audience, After, which reached a readership rather than a film crowd.
For his own biggest part, go to Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, where Milan Lovren is a named piece of the crew rather than a body in the background.
If the VOD action lane is your thing on its own terms, Boss Level is the sharpest of these films by a distance, Bandit and Cash Out are the most watchable of the straight thrillers, and High Rollers continues the same character he plays in the latter, which is a small piece of continuity almost nobody notices.