Tom Wlaschiha stars as Berlin police officer Sebastian Berger in NBC's new international crime series "Crossing Lines."

Wlaschiha was born in Dresden and grew up in former East Germany.

In 1996, after finishing his studies at renowned drama schools Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Leipzig and Conservatoire pour les Arts in Liege, Belgium, he went on to be a member of various theater companies including Staatsschauspiel Dresden and Schauspielhaus Zurich for several years.

Tom's theater credits include the acclaimed production of "Clinic" directed by Falk Richter and "Henry IV" directed by Stefan Pucher.

In the past decade he has worked extensively in film and television both in Germany and abroad. His credits include "The Deep" for BBC, "Brideshead Revisited," "Christopher and His Kind" for BBC, "Krabat," "The Cloud" and "Munich."

Tom appears in the Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning television series "Game of Thrones" for HBO and feature films "Rush" directed by Ron Howard for Universal Pictures and Amit Gupta's "Resistance."

Tom lives in London and Berlin and speaks English, Russian, German and French.