Michael Kranz
Actor
- Born
- April 17, 1983 (age 43) · Ravensburg, Germany
Since his father was the senior physician of a ward in the Bad Schussenried Centre for Psychiatry, he grew up with his three siblings in a service flat on the former hospital grounds. He attended the Studienkolleg St.Johann Blönried and graduated from there in 2003. At the age of 17, he lived for one year on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where he graduated from Red Cloud High School in 2001. In 2008 he completed his acting education at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich.
He studied at the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München and graduated there in March 2018 with a diploma in documentary film directing and television journalism.
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Internationally, Kranz was seen in the drama The White Ribbon (2009) by Michael Haneke, in Quentin Tarantino's war film Inglourious Basterds and in Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies. He became known to a wider television audience with the series Hindafing, in which he plays the city priest Kraus. The series was awarded the Austrian film prize Romy in 2018.
His spot myBorder's joyFence was awarded the First Steps Award and the Porsche Award in 2018.
Known for
Inglourious Basterds
August 2, 2009
War Horse
December 25, 2011
The White Ribbon
September 24, 2009
The Fifth Estate
October 11, 2013
Heidi
December 10, 2015
13 Minutes
April 9, 2015
The Diary of Anne Frank
March 3, 2016
The Goldfish
February 28, 2019
Rommel
November 1, 2012
Finsterworld
October 17, 2013
Nanga Parbat
January 14, 2010
Rehragout-Rendezvous
August 10, 2023
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