Name |
August Diehl |
Height |
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Naionality |
German |
Date of Birth |
4-January-1976 |
Place of Birth |
Berlin, Germany |
Famous for |
Acting |
August Diehl is a German actor, primarily known to international audiences for playing SS-Sturmbannführer Dieter Hellstrom in Inglourious Basterds and Michael "Mike" Krause, Evelyn Salt's husband, in the movie Salt, as well as for his leading role in the Academy Award-winning Austrian film The Counterfeiters (2007).
His family was frequently moving around, while he grew up: the Diehls used to live in Hamburg, Vienna, Düsseldorf, Bavaria and France. Growing up in a family of artists, at the age of 18, he played Franz Mohr in a school theatre production of Die Rauber by Friedrich Schiller.