Michael Kranz
Known for: Acting
Born: April 17, 1983
Place of birth: 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.
Advertisement
Filmography
54 movies · 11 TV shows, newest first
6.2
Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord
2026
7.2
Time We Lost
2025
6.7
Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
2025
8.7
Die Augenzeugen
2024
5.4
Raw Materials
2024
6.4
The Signal
2024
0.5
Morin
2023
6.7
Rehragout-Rendezvous
2023
4.3
The Young Chief Winnetou
2022
8.0
Was Tun
2022
5.3
Hannes
2021
5.6
12 Tage Sommer
2021
6.7
Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood
2020
7.8
The Master Butcher
2019
5.0
FrauMutterTier
2019
6.4
The Goldfish
2019
2.7
Onkel Wanja
2019
NR
Falter
2019
6.6
Das Leben meiner Tochter
2019
NR
MyBorder's JOYFence
2018
4.0
I love Everything I Hate About You
2018
6.2
Ein Sommer im Allgäu
2017
NR
Schildkröten Panzer
2017
6.9
Hindafing
2017
4.0
Mutter reicht's jetzt
2016
4.8
Die Büffel sind los!
2016
6.5
King Laurin
2016
7.2
The Diary of Anne Frank
2016
3.3
Siblings
2016
7.3
Heidi
2015
5.8
Another Kind of Light
2015
5.4
Ein Sommer in Masuren
2015
6.8
13 Minutes
2015NR
Der Andi ist wieder da
2015
5.0
Bettys Diagnose
2015
7.0
Murder by the Lake
2014
5.5
Hirngespinster
2014
5.0
Fräulein Else
2014
NR
Hammer & Sichl
2013
6.4
Finsterworld
2013
6.0
The Fifth Estate
2013
5.4
Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?
2013
6.5
Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte
2013
NR
Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11
2013
NR
Local Heroes
2013
5.9
The Pursuit of Unhappiness
2012
6.0
Rommel
2012
5.3
Sams im Glück
2012
7.0
Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?
2012
5.0
A Family of Three
2012
7.3
War Horse
2011
6.0
Sommer der Gaukler
2011
2.7
The Last 30 Years
2010
NR
Die Hummel
2010
6.6
Nanga Parbat
2010
6.3
Die Bergretter
2009
7.5
The White Ribbon
2009
8.2
Inglourious Basterds
2009
NR
Hanna und die Bankräuber
2009NR
Zwei Zimmer, Balkon
2009
4.7
Räuber Kneißl
2008
7.5
München 7
2004
5.8
Kommissarin Lucas
2003
7.0
Pink Palace, Paradise Beach
1990
6.2
Scene of the Crime
1970