---
name: "Franz Rogowski"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/franz-rogowski"
fi1m_id: "franz-rogowski"
imdb_id: "nm4453291"
tmdb_id: 1285450
wikidata_id: "Q16064485"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "2 February 1986"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 77
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-17T12:31:32.750394+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."
---

# Franz Rogowski

## Identity

Franz Rogowski

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/franz-rogowski
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** franz-rogowski
- **IMDb ID:** nm4453291
- **TMDB ID:** 1285450
- **Wikidata ID:** Q16064485
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Rogowski, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16064485, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4453291/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1285450

Actor. Born 2 February 1986 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 2 February 1986, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
- **Active:** 2015–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 77, as actor, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 79 (2), 2020s 75 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 77 to 75 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 2 of 4 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Romance 2, Crime 1, History 1, Thriller 1, War 1
- **Screen time:** 9 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $11m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Rogowski, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16064485, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4453291/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1285450

## Coming up

- *Cliffhanger* (2027-04-29)

## Streaming the US now

- **MUBI:** [*Passages*](https://film.one/film/passages.md) (77), [*Bird*](https://film.one/film/bird.md) (73)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Victoria*](https://film.one/film/victoria.md) (76)

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

## Fi1m on Franz Rogowski

> Franz Rogowski can make a bicycle ride or a step into somebody else's room tell us how a man treats people. We rate him highly, especially when a director lets his charm turn ugly.

In *Passages* (2023), Franz Rogowski cycles standing on the pedals and walks into other people's rooms as though he owns them. His Tomas is a film director whose need to have his own way starts with telling an actor how to walk downstairs. The impatience is there before anybody has to explain him. Rogowski makes that behaviour engrossing without pretending it is harmless, and he is the strongest reason to see Ira Sachs's film.

*Victoria* (2015) brought his breakthrough, while *Transit* (2018) and *In the Aisles* (2018) established him in leading roles. Christian Petzold directed *Transit* and worked with him again on *Undine* (2020). Rogowski gives directors something useful: a character need not speak for us to start wondering what he wants. Sachs makes particularly sharp use of that quality, letting Tomas's movements show how little he considers the people around him.

Khadija Zeggaï's cropped jumpers and mesh top help, giving Tomas clothes that demand attention as persistently as his behaviour does. We found Tomas horrible company and could not stop watching him, because Rogowski makes each switch from charm to selfishness so clear. Ben Whishaw's Martin and Adèle Exarchopoulos's Agathe absorb the damage. Sachs is less attentive to them, particularly Agathe, and that keeps a good film from going further.

Andrea Arnold's *Bird* (2024) asks for something gentler, with less consistent results. As the stranger Bailey meets on the marshes, Rogowski speaks softly, hops rather than walks and asks polite questions of people who want to hit him. The early uncertainty works: his kindness is appealing, but his movements make him hard to place. Later, Arnold makes his gentleness feel like a device, and Rogowski cannot make up for her uncertainty about what he is there to do. For an introduction, choose *Passages*, provided spending an evening with Tomas does not sound too much like work.

## Biography

Franz Rogowski is a German actor and dancer. Born on 2 February 1986 in Freiburg im Breisgau, he trained in dance and theatre in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, and performed on stages including the Thalia Theater Hamburg and Schaubühne Berlin before moving into film.

He gained international attention with his role in the single-take film *Victoria* (2015). Subsequent credits include *Happy End* (2017), *Transit* (2018), *Undine* (2020), *Great Freedom* (2021) and *In the Aisles* (2018). He has worked with directors including Michael Haneke, Christian Petzold, Terrence Malick and Andrea Arnold. In 2023 he played Tomas in *Passages* and in 2024 appeared as Bird in *Bird*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, dazeddigital.com, bfi.org.uk.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Bird* (2024), Fi1m 73, as Bird — [page](https://film.one/film/bird.md)
- *Passages* (2023), Fi1m 77, as Tomas — [page](https://film.one/film/passages.md)
- *A Hidden Life* (2019), Fi1m 82, as Waldland — [page](https://film.one/film/a-hidden-life.md)
- *Victoria* (2015), Fi1m 76, as Boxer — [page](https://film.one/film/victoria.md)

## Complete filmography (33)

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

- *Cliffhanger* (2027), Actor
- *Bird* (2024), as Bird — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/bird.md)
- *Lubo* (2023), as Lubo
- *Passages* (2023), as Tomas — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/passages.md)
- *Disco Boy* (2023), as Aleksei
- *Great Freedom* (2021), as Hans Hoffmann
- *Freaks Out* (2021), as Franz
- *Heikos Welt* (2021), as Fränkie Fresh Finger
- *Luzifer* (2021), as Johannes
- *Black Milk* (2020), as Franz
- *Undine* (2020), as Christoph
- *A Hidden Life* (2019), as Waldland — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/a-hidden-life.md)
- *I Was at Home, But...* (2019), as Lars
- *In the Aisles* (2018), as Christian
- *Transit* (2018), as Georg
- *Lux - Krieger des Lichts* (2018), as Thorsten / LUX
- *Figaros Wölfe* (2017), as Gilbert
- *Bed Bugs* (2017), as Thorben / Thorsten
- *Happy End* (2017), as Pierre Laurent
- *The Superhost* (2017), as Joon 1
- *Tiger Girl* (2017), as Malte
- *Simulant* (2016), Actor
- *Frontalwatte* (2016), as Franz
- *We Are Fine* (2016), as Tubbie
- *Besuch für Emma* (2015), as Arne
- *Victoria* (2015), as Boxer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/victoria.md)
- *Love Steaks* (2014), as Clemens Pollozek
- *Threesome* (2011), as Stefan
- *Polizeiruf 110* (1971), series, as Aniel Radke
- *Wizards!*, as Dieter
- *The Way of the Wind*, Actor
- *The Masque of the Red Death*, as Prince Prospero
- *Enemies*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Franz Rogowski](https://film.one/media/person/10533/gallery-dd25dbda596e.jpg) Franz Rogowski — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/MJK_15770_Franz_Rogowski_%28In_den_G%C3%A4ngen%29.jpg/1280px-MJK_15770_Franz_Rogowski_%28In_den_G%C3%A4ngen%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Franz Rogowski and Laetitia Ky at Berlinale 2023](https://film.one/media/person/10533/gallery-42c65648b905.jpg) Franz Rogowski and Laetitia Ky at Berlinale 2023 — Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Franz_Rogowski_2023.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Franz Rogowski auf der Berlinale 2015](https://film.one/media/person/10533/gallery-4e9b2ccd01f2.jpg) Franz Rogowski auf der Berlinale 2015 — Sebaso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/20150207_-_Franz_Rogowski_auf_der_Berlinale_by_sebaso.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Franz Rogowski at Berlinale 2023](https://film.one/media/person/10533/gallery-9aea5593dc0f.jpg) Franz Rogowski at Berlinale 2023 — Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Franz_Rogowski%2C_Berlinale_2023.jpg/1280px-Franz_Rogowski%2C_Berlinale_2023.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Franz Rogowski](https://film.one/media/person/10533/gallery-434c6b644f9a.jpg) Franz Rogowski — Image via TMDB
- ![Franz Rogowski](https://film.one/media/person/10533/gallery-eeae3c448c79.jpg) Franz Rogowski — Image via TMDB
- ![Franz Rogowski](https://film.one/media/person/10533/gallery-ba1987e496de.jpg) Franz Rogowski — Image via TMDB
- ![Franz Rogowski](https://film.one/media/person/10533/gallery-3d240393fc32.jpg) Franz Rogowski — Image via TMDB
- ![Franz Rogowski](https://film.one/media/person/10533/gallery-38c4a7aad9e5.jpg) Franz Rogowski — Image via TMDB
- ![Franz Rogowski](https://film.one/media/person/10533/gallery-15156b0a045d.jpg) Franz Rogowski — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 5 won, 3 nominated

- European Film Award for Best Actor 2024: European Film Award for Best Actor (nominated), for *Bird*
- European Film Award for Best Actor 2021: European Film Award for Best Actor (nominated), for *Great Freedom*
- Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award 2021: Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award (won), for *Luzifer*
- Ulrich Wildgruber Award 2019: Ulrich Wildgruber Award (won)
- German Film Award 2018: German Film Award (won)
- Günter Rohrbach film award 2018: Günter Rohrbach film award (won)
- European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2015: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *Victoria*
- Neues Deutsches Kino award 2013: Neues Deutsches Kino award (won), for *Love Steaks*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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