Michael Kranz
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.
63 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 63
Scene of the Crime
1970
Heidi
2015
Inglourious Basterds
2009
Bettys Diagnose
2015
Die Bergretter
2009
Kommissarin Lucas
2003
War Horse
2011
Murder by the Lake
2014
München 7
2004
The Signal
2024
The White Ribbon
2009
Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood
2020
Die Augenzeugen
2024
The Fifth Estate
2013
Hammer & Sichl
2013
Hindafing
2017
Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord
2026
Time We Lost
2025
Rommel
2012
13 Minutes
2015
Nanga Parbat
2010
The Young Chief Winnetou
2022
Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
2025
The Diary of Anne Frank
2016
The Goldfish
2019
Hannes
2021
Sams im Glück
2012
Was Tun
2022
The Master Butcher
2019
The Pursuit of Unhappiness
2012
Siblings
2016
Onkel Wanja
2019
Rehragout-Rendezvous
2023
Hirngespinster
2014
King Laurin
2016
FrauMutterTier
2019
Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?
2013
Ein Sommer im Allgäu
2017
Another Kind of Light
2015
Finsterworld
2013
A Family of Three
2012
Sommer der Gaukler
2011
Mutter reicht's jetzt
2016
Ein Sommer in Masuren
2015
Räuber Kneißl
2008
Die Büffel sind los!
2016
Fräulein Else
2014
Raw Materials
2024
Das Leben meiner Tochter
2019
Hanna und die Bankräuber
2009
Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11
2013
Die Hummel
2010
I love Everything I Hate About You
2018
Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte
2013
Local Heroes
2013
The Last 30 Years
2010
Der Andi ist wieder da
2015
Morin
2023
12 Tage Sommer
2021
Falter
2019
Zwei Zimmer, Balkon
2009
Schildkröten Panzer
2017
Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?
2012
