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Matthias Schweighöfer

ActorGerman Cinema21 credits
68Star power

18th of 81 in German Cinema

3 films led, $72M in reported gross.

Gross led
90
Consistency
88
Body of work
56
Momentum
56
Audience rating
4
The biggest German Cinema names
Born
11 March 1981
Birthplace
Anklam, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, East Germany [now Germany]
Nationality
United States
Industry
German Cinema
In their own file

Matthias Schweighöfer (German: [maˈtiːasˈʃvaɪkˌhøːfɐ]; born 11 March 1981) is a German actor and filmmaker known for his work in several German and American film productions. He appeared as Lieutenant Franz Herber in the 2008 film Valkyrie. In 2021, Schweighöfer appeared in the Netflix film Army of the Dead, directed by Zack Snyder, as Ludwig Dieter. He reprised his role in the prequel film, Army of Thieves, which he also directed. In 2023, he appeared as German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg in Christopher Nolan's biographical thriller  Oppenheimer, about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the development of the atomic bomb during World War II. Description above from the Wikipedia article Matthias Schweighöfer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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4 of 21 credits have a verdict, together taking $401M. The biggest was Army of the Dead at $191M. The rest are still counting, or never reported a budget.