Paul Boche

Paul Boche is a German model and actor whose lean frame and expressive face have made him a distinctive figure in designer menswear. His fashion career developed alongside an interest in performance, eventually extending from runway shows and magazine stories to leading film roles.

Born in Eisenach, Thuringia, Paul was scouted on the street while in Berlin for a school internship. He began modeling internationally in 2004 and moved to New York after completing school in 2006. Work for designers including Jean Paul Gaultier and Dries Van Noten placed him within a fashion world that valued individual character as much as conventional male beauty.

His Kenzo spring-summer 2014 campaign, alongside Devon Aoki, became a memorable expression of that appeal. Magazine work also gave him room to perform, as in his 2013 story for Vulture, where exaggerated gestures brought a comic energy to the clothes. These photographs show a model willing to make a face or inhabit a character, extending the possibilities of a fashion portrait.

Paul studied at New York’s Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute in 2012 and 2013. Roles in German cinema followed, including a lead in Zazy (2016), before television work extended to SAS Rogue Heroes and The Tattooist of Auschwitz. He later played Hein in Der Heimatlose (2026), bringing his screen career into a new chapter.

Speaking to GQ Germany in 2026, Paul explained that writing had led him toward acting through an interest in how characters are built. He also discussed co-writing a screenplay inspired by his modeling years, with plans to work behind the camera as an executive producer. Fashion had supplied the travel and encounters; writing offered a way to examine what that experience had meant.