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.
Filmography
all 61
Movies 49
TV Shows 12
self 1
Director 1
Voice 1
The Signal (2024)
Morin (2023)
Raw Materials (2023)
37 Sekunden (2023)
Rehragout-Rendezvous (2023)
The Young Chief Winnetou (2022)
Was Tun (2022)
Hannes (2021)
12 Tage Sommer (2021)
Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood (2020)
The Master Butcher (2019)
Helena. Die Künstliche Intelligenz (2019)
The Goldfish (2019)
Onkel Wanja (2019)
Falter (2019)
Das Leben meiner Tochter (2019)
MyBorder's JOYFence (2018)
I love Everything I Hate About You (2018)
Ein Sommer im Allgäu (2017)
Schildkröten Panzer (2017)
Hindafing (2017)
Mutter reicht's jetzt (2016)
Die Büffel sind los! (2016)
King Laurin (2016)
The Diary of Anne Frank (2016)
Siblings (2016)
Heidi (2015)
Another Kind of Light (2015)
Ein Sommer in Masuren (2015)
13 Minutes (2015)
Der Andi ist wieder da (2015)
Mia (2015)
Bettys Diagnose (2015)
Murder by the Lake (2014)
Hirngespinster (2014)
Fräulein Else (2014)
Hammer & Sichl (2013)
The Fifth Estate (2013)
Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann? (2013)
Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte (2013)
Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11 (2013)
Local Heroes (2013)
The Pursuit of Unhappiness (2012)
Rommel (2012)
Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf? (2012)
A Family of Three (2012)
War Horse (2011)
Sommer der Gaukler (2011)
The Last 30 Years (2010)
Die Hummel (2010)
Nanga Parbat (2010)
Alpine Rescue (2009)
The White Ribbon (2009)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Hanna und die Bankräuber (2009)
Zwei Zimmer, Balkon (2009)
Räuber Kneißl (2008)
München 7 (2004)
Kommissarin Lucas (2003)
Pink Palace, Paradise Beach (1989)
Scene of the Crime (1970)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1983-04-17 (41 years old)
Birth PlaceRavensburg, Germany
CitizenshipsGermany
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