Known For
Acting
Born
Apr 17, 1983
Place of Birth
Ravensburg, Germany
Credits
65 titles
Michael Kranz
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.
Known For
Filmography
Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord
Patrick Wams
Time We Lost
Lutz Schmauser
Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
Liebfried Cantor
Die Augenzeugen
Sascha Wolf
Raw Materials
Massenbach
The Signal
Gregor
Morin
Konrad Dramm
Rehragout-Rendezvous
Simon Steckenbiller
The Young Chief Winnetou
Freddy
Was Tun
Hannes
Florian
12 Tage Sommer
Henning / Reinhold / Corvin
Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood
Alfons Urban
The Master Butcher
Fidelis’ Bruder
FrauMutterTier
Hannes
The Goldfish
Kursleiter
Onkel Wanja
Telegin
Falter
Dave
Das Leben meiner Tochter
Norbert Holler
MyBorder's JOYFence
Director
I love Everything I Hate About You
Kai
Ein Sommer im Allgäu
Schildkröten Panzer
Narrator (voice)
Hindafing
Pfarrer Kraus
Mutter reicht's jetzt
Simon
Die Büffel sind los!
Landrat Häberle
King Laurin
Bauer Hans
The Diary of Anne Frank
Jan Hartog
Siblings
Niels
Heidi
Mr. Kandidat
Another Kind of Light
Ein Sommer in Masuren
Zugschaffner
13 Minutes
Franz Xaver Lechner
Der Andi ist wieder da
Michael Schäfer
Bettys Diagnose
Christoph Wendrup
Murder by the Lake
Peter Wolfahrt
Hirngespinster
Guido
Fräulein Else
Paul
Hammer & Sichl
Polizist
Finsterworld
The Fifth Estate
Otto
Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?
Mr. Rupprecht
Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte
Michel
Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11
Bossler
Local Heroes
Lazlo
The Pursuit of Unhappiness
Moritz
Rommel
Karl Daniel
Sams im Glück
Packer 1
Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?
German Sergeant
A Family of Three