- As cheese is his favorite food, some of the salary for appearing on a Swiss TV commercial for cheese was paid in cheese.
- Due to the difficult pronunciation of his name in English, he was credited as Uwe Oxenknecht in some US productions.
- His children -together with Natascha- are Wilson Gonzalez (b. 18 Märch 1990) and Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht (b. 27 December 1991), both young actors, and a girl, Cheyenne Ochsenknecht (b. 13 January 2000). His oldest son Rocco Stark (b. 27. Mai 1986) is from a Prior relationship with Rosanna Della Porta.
He has a grandchild, Amalia (b. 11 February 2013), from his son Rocco. - Since the early 1990s, he has also been a successful singer.
- Graduated from the Bochum Drama School.
- Dropped out of high school.
- Both his parents are from East Germany and moved from Saalfeld, Thuringia, to Biblis, Hesse, in 1951.
- His father was a trained opera singer and member of the Mannheim opera. He later worked as a precision mechanic for Daimler-Benz.
- Was a boy soprano with the choir of the Nationaltheater Mannheim.
- Absconded from home, aged eleven, for a year making his way through Spain without money, passport or the ability to speak Spanish.
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