Tim Ricke is an actor and was born in 1977 in Duisburg, a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. After school, he completed an apprenticeship as a surveying technician. In 2007 he decided to start acting. Since then, he has played in a variety of series mainly in the scripted reality genre. Later other formats followed. In his youth, Ricke was a competitive swimmer and water polo player. In 1993 he started the bodybuilding sport, which he still runs today. In the period from 2008 to 2013, Ricke also participated actively in amateur bodybuilding competitions. He is known for Tatort: Maleficius (2019), Hüftkreisen mit Nancy (2019), Wilsberg: Treuetest (2013).
