Christian Oliver (March 3, 1972 - January 4, 2024) was a German actor. Oliver was born in Celle and grew up in Frankfurt am Main. He relocated to the US to work as a model and subsequently take acting lessons in New York and Los Angeles. In 2003 and 2004, Oliver co-starred in 28 episodes of the German action TV series Alarm für Cobra 11. He died alongside his two daughters in a plane crash off the coast of a Caribbean island.

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Oliver wuchs in Frankfurt am Main auf und ging zur Freiherr-vom-Stein-Schule. Er wurde in Deutschland unter anderem durch den Film Götterdämmerung – Morgen stirbt Berlin und durch die deutsche RTL-Action-Serie Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei, in der er die Hauptrolle des Hauptkommissars Jan Richter spielte, bekannt. Sein Stuntdouble ist Patrick Doetsch.