Michael Kranz

Known for ActingBorn 1983-04-17 (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. 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Die Augenzeugen

Inglourious Basterds

Was Tun

The Master Butcher

Time We Lost

The White Ribbon

München 7

War Horse

Heidi

The Diary of Anne Frank

Murder by the Lake

Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?

Hindafing

Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting

Das Leben meiner Tochter

13 Minutes

Rehragout-Rendezvous

Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood

Pink Palace, Paradise Beach

Nanga Parbat

King Laurin

The Signal

Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte

The Goldfish

Finsterworld

Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord

Ein Sommer im Allgäu

Die Bergretter

Rommel

The Fifth Estate

Sommer der Gaukler

The Pursuit of Unhappiness

Another Kind of Light

Scene of the Crime

12 Tage Sommer

Kommissarin Lucas

Hirngespinster

Ein Sommer in Masuren

Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?

Hannes

Raw Materials

Sams im Glück

FrauMutterTier

Bettys Diagnose

Fräulein Else

A Family of Three

Die Büffel sind los!

Räuber Kneißl