Acting · Ravensburg, Germany · Born April 17, 1983
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.
MovieDer Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord
2026
as Patrick Wams
MovieTime We Lost
2025
as Lutz Schmauser
MovieLeibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
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as Liebfried Cantor
TVDie Augenzeugen
2024
as Sascha Wolf
MovieRaw Materials
2024
as Massenbach
TVThe Signal
2024
as Gregor
MovieMorin
2023
as Konrad Dramm
MovieRehragout-Rendezvous
2023
as Simon Steckenbiller
MovieThe Young Chief Winnetou
2022
as Freddy
MovieWas Tun
2022
MovieHannes
2021
as Florian
Movie12 Tage Sommer
2021
as Henning / Reinhold / Corvin
TVOktoberfest: Beer and Blood
2020
as Alfons Urban
MovieThe Master Butcher
2019
as Fidelis’ Bruder
MovieFrauMutterTier
2019
as Hannes
MovieThe Goldfish
2019
as Kursleiter
MovieOnkel Wanja
2019
as Telegin
MovieFalter
2019
as Dave
MovieDas Leben meiner Tochter
2019
as Norbert Holler
MovieI love Everything I Hate About You
2018
as Kai
MovieEin Sommer im Allgäu
2017
MovieSchildkröten Panzer
2017
as Narrator (voice)
TVHindafing
2017
as Pfarrer Kraus
MovieMutter reicht's jetzt
2016
as Simon
MovieDie Büffel sind los!
2016
as Landrat Häberle
MovieKing Laurin
2016
as Bauer Hans
MovieThe Diary of Anne Frank
2016
as Jan Hartog
MovieSiblings
2016
as Niels
MovieHeidi
2015
as Mr. Kandidat
MovieAnother Kind of Light
2015
MovieEin Sommer in Masuren
2015
as Zugschaffner
Movie13 Minutes
2015
as Franz Xaver Lechner
Der Andi ist wieder da
2015
as Michael Schäfer
TVBettys Diagnose
2015
as Christoph Wendrup
TVMurder by the Lake
2014
as Peter Wolfahrt
MovieHirngespinster
2014
as Guido
MovieFräulein Else
2014
as Paul
TVHammer & Sichl
2013
as Polizist
MovieFinsterworld
2013
MovieThe Fifth Estate
2013
as Otto
MovieWer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?
2013
as Mr. Rupprecht
MovieDas Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte
2013
as Michel
MovieAchtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11
2013
as Bossler
MovieLocal Heroes
2013
as Lazlo
MovieThe Pursuit of Unhappiness
2012
as Moritz
MovieRommel
2012
as Karl Daniel
MovieSams im Glück
2012
as Packer 1
MovieWho's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?
2012
as German Sergeant
MovieA Family of Three
2012
MovieWar Horse
2011
as Junior German Officer
MovieSommer der Gaukler
2011
as Alfons
MovieThe Last 30 Years
2010
as Robert Ostermeier
Die Hummel
2010
as Flo
MovieNanga Parbat
2010
as Hans Saler
TVDie Bergretter
2009
as Steffen Haflinger
MovieThe White Ribbon
2009
as The Tutor
MovieInglourious Basterds
2009
as Herrman #3
MovieHanna und die Bankräuber
2009
as Polizist Kranz
Zwei Zimmer, Balkon
2009
as Niklas
MovieRäuber Kneißl
2008
as Gendarm Hildebrand
TVMünchen 7
2004
as Jörg
TVKommissarin Lucas
2003
as Kai Benner
TVScene of the Crime
1970
as Karsten
