Michael Kranz
Acting
- Born:
- 1983-04-17
- Place of birth:
- 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.
Known For
Filmography
Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord
Time We Lost
Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
Die Augenzeugen
Raw Materials
The Signal
Morin
Rehragout-Rendezvous
The Young Chief Winnetou
Was Tun
Hannes
12 Tage Sommer
Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood
The Master Butcher
FrauMutterTier
The Goldfish
Onkel Wanja
Falter
Das Leben meiner Tochter
I love Everything I Hate About You
Ein Sommer im Allgäu
Schildkröten Panzer
Hindafing
Mutter reicht's jetzt
Die Büffel sind los!
King Laurin
The Diary of Anne Frank
Siblings
Heidi
Another Kind of Light
Ein Sommer in Masuren
13 Minutes
Der Andi ist wieder da
Bettys Diagnose
Murder by the Lake
Hirngespinster
Fräulein Else
Hammer & Sichl
Finsterworld
The Fifth Estate
Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?
Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte
Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11
Local Heroes
The Pursuit of Unhappiness
Rommel
Sams im Glück
Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?
A Family of Three
War Horse
Sommer der Gaukler
The Last 30 Years
Die Hummel
Nanga Parbat
Die Bergretter
The White Ribbon
Inglourious Basterds
Hanna und die Bankräuber
Zwei Zimmer, Balkon
Räuber Kneißl
München 7
Kommissarin Lucas
Scene of the Crime