36925

Mathieu Carrière
Mathieu Carrière (born August 2, 1950 in Hanover, Germany) is a German actor. Carrière grew up in Berlin and Lübeck; he attended the Jesuit boarding school Lycée Saint-François-Xavier in Vannes, France, a school which had previously been attended by the director of Carrière's first major film, Volker Schlöndorff. In 1969 Carrière moved to Paris to study philosophy and continue his acting. Carrière is also a director and a writer and is known to fight for the rights of fathers. His sister Mareike Carrière is also a well known actor. After playing the young Tonio at the age of 13 in Rolf Thiele's 1964 film Tonio Kröger, he played a main part in the 1966 German movie Der junge Törless (Young Törless). In 1980, he was a member of the jury at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mathieu Carrière, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For

Luther
as Cardinal Jacob Cajetan

Shining Through
as Von Haefler

Bilitis
as Nikias

Arsène Lupin
as le duc d'Orléans

Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
as King John

Bluebeard
as The Violinist

Miserere
as Peter Hansen

The Princess and the Pauper
as Re Hamil

Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman
as Paul

The Passerby
as Ruppert von Leggaert / Federico Logo