Michael Kranz
Known For
Acting
Born
1983-04-17 in Ravensburg, Germany
Biography
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. 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.
Most Known For
Scene of the Crime
as Karsten
Inglourious Basterds
as Herrman #3
Bettys Diagnose
as Christoph Wendrup
Die Bergretter
as Steffen Haflinger
Heidi
as Mr. Kandidat
Murder by the Lake
as Peter Wolfahrt
War Horse
as Junior German Officer
Nanga Parbat
as Hans Saler
München 7
as Jörg
The Signal
as Gregor
The White Ribbon
as The Tutor
Rommel
as Karl Daniel
Kommissarin Lucas
as Kai Benner
Räuber Kneißl
as Gendarm Hildebrand
Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood
as Alfons Urban
Die Augenzeugen
as Sascha Wolf
Siblings
as Niels
The Fifth Estate
as Otto
Fräulein Else
as Paul
The Pursuit of Unhappiness
as Moritz