Best German Speaking Actors/Actresses

Swiss; Swiss father and Italian mother

Austrian; German father and Austrian mother, born in Austria

He is honored with a star on the "Boulevard der Stars" in Berlin.

German citizenship; Croatian parents; born in Germany

He is today one of the best actors in Germany.

Austrian

Croatian; Croatian parents, born in Croatia, raised in Germany

Austrian

Turk; emigrated to Germany in 1973 (at the age of 5)

Austrian (Austrian and German citizenship); Austrian parents; born and raised in Austria/Third Reich

She is honored with a star on the "Boulevard der Stars" in Berlin.

German citizenship; Romanian parents, born in Romania, raised in Germany

Austrian

Austrian

Austrian

Swiss

Austrian-Swiss; Swiss father and Austrian mother, born in Austria (1930), grew up in Switzerland; won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Judgment at Nuremberg in 1961

Austrian-Hungarian; Jewish parents, born and raised in Austria-Hungary, emigrated to the USA in 1935

Dutch; living and working in Germany since 1935; one of the most famous actors in Germany during the 1930s-50s; 1903-2011 (108 years!); Heesters was considered one of the oldest stage performers in history.

Austrian; Jewish parents, born and raised in Austria-Hungary, emigrated to the USA in 1909

Austrian; German father and Austrian mother

Swiss-Austrian; Swiss father and Austrian-Hungarian mother, grew up in Germany; famous director (Die Brücke) and actor

Austrian

Austrian; famous director and actor

Austrian; comedian, 1880-1964

Austrian

Austrian

Austrian; most famous in his performance as King Ludwig II of Bavaria in Ludwig (1972)

Austrian; appeared in numerous Hollywood films like Lifeboat (1944), Born to Kill (1947)

Austrian; Austrian citizenship (+ Ethiopian honorary citizenship since 2003), born in Germany; Austrian father (with Austrian and French ancestors) and German mother; Karlheinz Böhm grew up in Germany (Darmstadt, Hamburg, Dresden)

With Romy Schneider, he starred in the Sissi trilogy as the Emperor Franz Joseph.

Austrian; father of the famous actress Romy Schneider

Austrian; Irish father and Austrian mother, born in Austria (1931), grew up mainly in Austria and also a short time in USA, Belgium; was a singer and actor and is now retired

Austrian-Hungarian (South Tyrolean). He was a film producer, director, writer, actor, architect, and alpinist known for his films about the Alps.

Swede; famous Ufa-Filmstar in the 1930s-40s

Swiss

She is honored with a star on the "Boulevard der Stars" in Berlin.

Austrian; Jewish parents, born and raised in Austria;
emigrated to England and later to the USA; 1914-2000

She was not only an actress but also an inventor. She invented together with composer George Antheil a radio-controlled torpedo during the second world war, but the US government decided that they don't need it. After the war they developed an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping, necessary for wireless communication like Bluetooth or GSM.

Austrian/Swiss actress. Born in Austria.
She was the older sister of actor Maximilian Schell.

She was among the biggest stars of German film in the 1950s and 1960s.
Her awards: Volpi Cup, Bambi, Deutscher Filmpreis, Bundesverdienstkreuz.

Austrian; She was Heinz Rühmann's wife since 1939.

Austrian; born in Austria-Hungary (now Croatia)

Austrian-Hungarian; famous actress, dancer and singer in German films of the 1930s-40s

Austrian

Austrian–Hungarian

Austrian; died in a bombing raid on Vienna on April 8th 1945.