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name: "Florian Munteanu"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/florian-munteanu"
fi1m_id: "florian-munteanu"
imdb_id: "nm8108730"
tmdb_id: 1998541
wikidata_id: "Q54860781"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "13 October 1990"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 58
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-19T15:45:42.667639+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Florian Munteanu

## Identity

Florian Munteanu

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/florian-munteanu
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** florian-munteanu
- **IMDb ID:** nm8108730
- **TMDB ID:** 1998541
- **Wikidata ID:** Q54860781
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_Munteanu, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54860781, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8108730/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1998541

Actor. Born 13 October 1990 in Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 13 October 1990, Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany
- **Active:** 2018–present
- **Also known as:** Big Nasty, 플로리안 문테아누, Florian 'Big Nasty' Munteanu, Флоріан Мунтяну, פלוריאן מונטינאו, 佛洛里安·蒙特亞努, فلوریان مونتانو
- **Frequently works with:** [Michael B. Jordan](https://film.one/person/michael-b-jordan.md), [Tessa Thompson](https://film.one/person/tessa-thompson.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 58, as actor, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 64 (1), 2020s 57 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 58 to 59 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 4 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Action 4, Drama 2, Sport 2, Adventure 1, Comedy 1, Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $955m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_Munteanu, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54860781, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8108730/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1998541

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Creed III*](https://film.one/film/creed-iii.md) (72), [*Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings*](https://film.one/film/shang-chi-and-the-legend-of-the-ten-rings.md) (66)
- **Apple TV:** [*Creed II*](https://film.one/film/creed-ii.md) (64)
- **Peacock:** [*Borderlands*](https://film.one/film/borderlands.md) (32)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Florian Munteanu

> Florian Munteanu brings a boxer's credibility to screen fighting and has shown feeling beyond the blows. We rate that promise, though the franchise roles keep asking him to prove much the same thing.

Florian Munteanu looks comfortable being asked to hit someone on screen. His amateur boxing experience gives the fighting a conviction that casting for size alone cannot supply. Viktor Drago in *Creed II* (2018), his breakthrough with Sylvester Stallone backing his casting, showed that he could convey emotion as well as physical threat. We rate that combination, but his subsequent roles have too often asked him to establish how dangerous he is before considering what else he might offer.

*Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings* (2021) cast him as the antagonist Razor Fist; *Creed III* (2023) brought him back as Viktor. Michael B. Jordan directs the latter with confidence, and the inventive fights make it worth an evening if boxing films are your thing. The familiar story is hurried, though, and Jonathan Majors has the wounded, watchful antagonist's role. For Munteanu, returning to Drago keeps the emphasis on the work for which he was first noticed.

*Borderlands* (2024) asks something different of him as Krieg: a masked performance with a comic element. That is a useful test for an actor whose size has so often determined the casting, since the face is no longer freely available to do the work. Eli Roth's film gives him little help, with muddled shootouts, weak jokes and an underwritten company around him. We were irritated by the wasted effort: even Cate Blanchett's energy could not make these people worth spending time with. We would not recommend it as a reason to seek Munteanu out.

A quieter dramatic part would be the useful next test. The opportunities outside physically demanding roles have been limited, so certainty about his abilities would be premature in either direction. We have seen enough feeling in the earlier Drago performance to want the casting to become less predictable. Give him a scene in which nobody needs hitting.

## Biography

Florian Munteanu is a German-Romanian actor and boxer. Born on 13 October 1990 in Würzburg, Germany, to Romanian parents, he grew up in Bogen and later studied at Hochschule Mittweida, where he completed a BA in 2014. He competed in boxing under the ring name Big Nasty.

Munteanu made his screen debut in the 2016 short film *Bogat*. He is known for playing Viktor Drago in *Creed II* (2018) and *Creed III* (2023), and Razor Fist in *Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings* (2021). His other credits include *The Contractor* (2022), *Borderlands* (2024) and the series *Vikings: Valhalla* (2024).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Borderlands* (2024), Fi1m 32, as Krieg — [page](https://film.one/film/borderlands.md)
- *Creed III* (2023), Fi1m 72, as Viktor Drago — [page](https://film.one/film/creed-iii.md)
- *Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings* (2021), Fi1m 66, as Razor Fist — [page](https://film.one/film/shang-chi-and-the-legend-of-the-ten-rings.md)
- *Creed II* (2018), Fi1m 64, as Viktor Drago — [page](https://film.one/film/creed-ii.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Borderlands* (2024), as Krieg — Fi1m 32, [page](https://film.one/film/borderlands.md)
- *Creed III* (2023), as Viktor Drago — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/creed-iii.md)
- *The Contractor* (2022), as Kaufman
- *Vikings: Valhalla* (2022), series, as George Maniakes
- *Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings* (2021), as Razor Fist — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/shang-chi-and-the-legend-of-the-ten-rings.md)
- *Creed II* (2018), as Viktor Drago — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/creed-ii.md)
- *Drago*, as Viktor Drago
- *Painter*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Florian Munteanu](https://film.one/media/person/21629/gallery-6897742749fc.jpg) Florian Munteanu — Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Florian_Munteanu_-_IGN_Live_2024.jpg/1280px-Florian_Munteanu_-_IGN_Live_2024.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Florian Munteanu](https://film.one/media/person/21629/gallery-69d782ab52bf.jpg) Florian Munteanu — Image via TMDB

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