--- name: "Lars Eidinger" canonical: "https://film.one/person/lars-eidinger" roles: ["Actor"] born: "21 January 1976" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 71 average_as: "actor" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-09-17T13:19:30.015290+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." --- # Lars Eidinger Actor. Born 21 January 1976 in Berlin, Germany. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 21 January 1976, Berlin, Germany - **Active:** 2016–present - **Frequently works with:** [Olivier Assayas](https://film.one/person/olivier-assayas.md) - **Average Fi1m score:** 71, as actor, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 76 (1), 2020s 69 (2) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 71 to 70 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 1 of 2 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 3, Comedy 2, Mystery 1, Thriller 1 - **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $1m across 1 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Eidinger, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1806191, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1955257/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/111420 ## Coming up - *City of Blood* (2026-09-16), as Zeno Gennardi — [page](https://film.one/tv/city-of-blood.md) - *Visitation* (2026-10-15) - *Moulin* (2026-10-28), as Klaus Barbie - *Man of Tomorrow* (2027-07-07), as Brainiac ## Streaming the US now - **AMC+:** [*Personal Shopper*](https://film.one/film/personal-shopper.md) (76) - **HBO Max:** [*Irma Vep*](https://film.one/tv/irma-vep-2022.md) (74) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Lars Eidinger > Lars Eidinger never quite vanishes into a part, and does not want to. On stage that visible, restless actor is the whole attraction; on film it depends who is pointing the camera, and Olivier Assayas points it best. Ingo in *Personal Shopper* (2016) is a small part, and Lars Eidinger spends it being unpleasant to Kristen Stewart in the way people are unpleasant to staff when they want something. What we remember is not the unpleasantness but the pleasure. He lets us see Ingo enjoying it, and he lets us see, a fraction behind that, an actor who knows we can see it. We disliked the man within a minute and were faintly annoyed at how deliberately we had been made to. That is the Eidinger habit: the character, and the performer standing just beside him, watching for our reaction. He came to it from the stage, and the stage is still where the reputation lives. Trained at the Ernst Busch Academy in Berlin, he joined the Schaubühne ensemble in 1999 and became known for Thomas Ostermeier's productions of *Hamlet* (2008) and *Richard III*, performances that were physical, improvised in places and liable to spill off the stage into the seats. Film arrived comparatively late, with Maren Ade's *Everyone Else* (2009), and international notice later still, with Assayas's *Clouds of Sils Maria* (2014). Assayas has now used him three times, in that film, in *Personal Shopper* and in the miniseries *Irma Vep* (2022), and *Babylon Berlin* (2017) made him a fixture of German television. He has not given up the theatre for any of it. The method is Brechtian in the plain sense: he shows you that he is showing you. He has put it more simply himself: "I never become somebody else. The only thing I try to achieve is to become myself." With a live audience to play against, that unpredictability is the point. On film, where the camera does not answer back, it can curdle. His screen work has been called cartoonish and self-indulgent, and *SS-GB* (2017) drew exactly that complaint. The quality that makes him worth the ticket for Ostermeier can look, in a period thriller, like a man refusing to fit inside the frame. Assayas has worked out what to do with him, and the answer is to cast him as people who are already performing. Ingo is a lover on display, and *Irma Vep* gives him Gottfried, a part built around exactly this provocation. In those hands the visible actor becomes a character trait rather than a leak. That is why we would send you to *Personal Shopper* first, small part and all. Elsewhere he divides people, and seems content to. Go in expecting to be shown a performance rather than fooled by one, and decide whether you find that honest or exhausting. ## Biography Lars Eidinger is a German actor. Born on 21 January 1976 in Berlin, he trained at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art and has been an ensemble member of the Berliner Schaubühne since 1999. His stage work includes acclaimed portrayals of Hamlet and Richard III directed by Thomas Ostermeier. Eidinger has appeared in numerous German and international film and television productions. Notable credits include *Clouds of Sils Maria* (2014), *Personal Shopper* (2016) as Ingo, *High Life* (2018), *Dumbo* (2019), *White Noise* (2022), *Irma Vep* (2022) as Gottfried, and *City of Blood* (2026) as Zeno Gennardi. He has also featured in series such as *Babylon Berlin* and *All the Light We Cannot See* (2023). He has received awards including the German Film Critics' Prize for Best Actor in 2013 and the Grimme Award in 2014. Eidinger is also a musician and lives in Berlin. *Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, tvinsider.com.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *Jay Kelly* (2025), Fi1m 64, as German Cyclist — [page](https://film.one/film/jay-kelly.md) - *Irma Vep* (2022), Fi1m 74, as Gottfried — [page](https://film.one/tv/irma-vep-2022.md) - *Personal Shopper* (2016), Fi1m 76, as Ingo — [page](https://film.one/film/personal-shopper.md) ## Complete filmography (93) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Man of Tomorrow* (2027), as Brainiac - *Moulin* (2026), as Klaus Barbie - *Visitation* (2026), Acting - *City of Blood* (2026), series, as Zeno Gennardi — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/tv/city-of-blood.md) - *The Blood Countess* (2026), Acting - *You Believe in Angels, Mr. Drowak?* (2026), as Amtsleiter - *Jay Kelly* (2025), as German Cyclist — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/jay-kelly.md) - *Dead Language* (2025), as Jacob - *Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting* (2025), as Pierre-Albert Delalandre - *The Light* (2025), as Tim - *Zeit Verbrechen* (2024), series, as Johnny - *Dying* (2024), as Tom Lunies - *Kafka* (2024), series, as Rainer Maria Rilke - *All the Light We Cannot See* (2023), series, as Reinhold von Rumpel - *White Noise* (2022), as Arlo Shell - *About Joan* (2022), as Tim Ardenne - *Irma Vep* (2022), series, as Gottfried — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/irma-vep-2022.md) - *Faking Hitler* (2021), series, as Gerd Heidemann - *Borowski und der gute Mensch* (2021), as Kai Korthals - *The Last Execution* (2021), as Dr. Franz Walter - *Ich und die Anderen* (2021), series, as Chef - *Jedermann - Salzburger Festspiele* (2021), as Jedermann - *Playing God* (2020), as Rechtsanwalt Biegler - *My Little Sister* (2020), as Sven - *Persian Lessons* (2020), as Klaus Koch - *Proxima* (2019), as Thomas Akerman - *West of Liberty* (2019), series, as Lucien Gell - *Max Raabe & Palast Orchester - MTV Unplugged* (2019), as Lars Eidinger - *Coronation* (2019), series, Acting - *All My Loving* (2019), as Stefan - *Dumbo* (2019), as Hans Brugelbecker - *Germany. A Winter's Tale* (2019), as Watzek - *M - A City Hunts a Murderer* (2019), series, as Vater - *Mischief* (2018), as Fremder - *25 km/h* (2018), as Christian - *Cut Off* (2018), as Jan Erik Sadler - *Never Look Away* (2018), as Exhibition Guide - *High Life* (2018), as Chandra - *Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film* (2018), as Berthold Brecht - *Maryline* (2017), as Ilan Kafman - *Mathilde* (2017), as Nicolas II - *Babylon Berlin* (2017), series, as Alfred Nyssen - *Hell's Bells* (2017), as Bösewicht - *SS-GB* (2017), series, as Dr Oskar Huth - *The Bloom of Yesterday* (2017), as Totila Blumen - *Personal Shopper* (2016), as Ingo — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/personal-shopper.md) - *The Verdict* (2016), as Verteidiger Herr Biegler - *The Origin of Violence* (2016), as Dr. Erich Wagner - *The Wagner-Clan* (2015), as Siegfried Wagner - *Family Party* (2015), as Max - *Sense8* (2015), series, as Sebastian Fuchs - *Sworn Virgin* (2015), as Bernhard - *Shades of Guilt* (2015), series, as Fritz Meinering - *Elixir* (2015), as Jacques - *Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents* (2015), as Peter - *Richard III* (2015), as Richard III. - *Sadness Is an Evil Gas Inside of Me* (2014), Acting - *Clouds of Sils Maria* (2014), as Klaus Diesterweg - *Der Prediger* (2014), as Jan-Josef Geissler - *Grenzgang* (2013), as Thomas Weidmann - *Die Akte Beethoven* (2013), as Ludwig van Beethoven - *Du bist dran* (2013), as Peter - *Goltzius & the Pelican Company* (2012), as Amos Quadfrey - *Borowski und der stille Gast* (2012), as Kai Korthals - *Home for the Weekend* (2012), as Marko Heidtmann - *Summer Window* (2011), as Philipp Hobrecht - *Code Blue* (2011), as Konrad - *Hell* (2011), as Phillip - *Tabu - Es ist die Seele ein Fremdes auf Erden* (2011), as Georg Trakl - *Die Kulturakte* (2011), series, as Ludwig van Beethoven - *Video Nasty* (2011), Acting - *Hauch des Todes* (2010), as Daniel Tretschok - *Verhältnisse* (2010), as Daniel Baumann - *A Summer Without Gitti* (2010), as Chris - *Murder on Amrum* (2009), as Man - *Everyone Else* (2009), as Chris - *Torpedo* (2008), as Father - *Minibar* (2008), as Werner - *Hamlet* (2008), as Hamlet/Lucianus/Ghost/Player Queen - *After Effect* (2007), Acting - *Deutschland deine Lieder* (2007), as Felix - *Hedda Gabler* (2006), as Jørgen Tesman - Associate Professor of Cultural History - *Ketchup Connection* (2005), as Carlo - *See You at Régis Debray* (2005), as Andreas Baader - *Foyle's War* (2002), series, as Karl Strasser - *Berlin, Berlin* (2002), series, as Student - *Kehrwoche* (2000), as Postbote - *Polizeiruf 110* (1971), series, as Kurt Ratgaus, Almandine Winter, Lars Reiter - *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, as Kai Korthals, Paul Muthesius, Daniel Tretschok - *Behind The Knothole*, as Fin - *Rivo Alto*, Acting - *My Home Is a Dark and Cloud-Hung Land*, Acting - *Twins*, as Father Paul ## Gallery - ![Lars Eidinger](https://film.one/media/person/93890/gallery-bfa110f3d289.jpg) Lars Eidinger — Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Lars_Eidinger_at_Berlinale_2024.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Sebastian Bieniek, „Small Face No. 1“, 2017. Model: actor Lars Eidinger as Hamlet. Oeuvre of Bieniek-Face. Portrait. Body painting. Face painting.](https://film.one/media/person/93890/gallery-324ae8e0295a.jpg) Sebastian Bieniek, „Small Face No. 1“, 2017. Model: actor Lars Eidinger as Hamlet. Oeuvre of Bieniek-Face. Portrait. Body painting. Face painting. — Sebastian Bieniek, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/02-Small-Face-No-1_by_SebastianBieniek-Model_Lars_Eidinger_2007_Hamlet.jpg/1280px-02-Small-Face-No-1_by_SebastianBieniek-Model_Lars_Eidinger_2007_Hamlet.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Film Crew of Sterben:Ronald Zehrfeld, Lilith Stangenberg, Matthias Glasner, Corinna Harfouch and Lars Eidinger at Berlinale 2024](https://film.one/media/person/93890/gallery-2c5bd832f1ea.jpg) Film Crew of Sterben:Ronald Zehrfeld, Lilith Stangenberg, Matthias Glasner, Corinna Harfouch and Lars Eidinger at Berlinale 2024 — Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Film_Crew_of_Sterben_at_Berlinale_2024-1.jpg/1280px-Film_Crew_of_Sterben_at_Berlinale_2024-1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Film Crew of Sterben:Lilith Stangenberg, Matthias Glasner, Corinna Harfouch and Lars Eidinger at Berlinale 2024](https://film.one/media/person/93890/gallery-1015ff0fd400.jpg) Film Crew of Sterben:Lilith Stangenberg, Matthias Glasner, Corinna Harfouch and Lars Eidinger at Berlinale 2024 — Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Film_Crew_of_Sterben_at_Berlinale_2024.jpg/1280px-Film_Crew_of_Sterben_at_Berlinale_2024.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Lars Eidinger](https://film.one/media/person/93890/gallery-508054d0db47.jpg) Lars Eidinger — Image via TMDB - ![Lars Eidinger](https://film.one/media/person/93890/gallery-2a76fb971f9c.jpg) Lars Eidinger — Image via TMDB - ![Lars Eidinger](https://film.one/media/person/93890/gallery-a4c1273c0abb.jpg) Lars Eidinger — Image via TMDB - ![Claudia Michelsen und Lars Eidinger bei der Verleihung des Grimme-Preises 2014.](https://film.one/media/person/93890/gallery-ba54c8d2d684.jpg) Claudia Michelsen und Lars Eidinger bei der Verleihung des Grimme-Preises 2014. — Krd, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Grimmepreis_2014_096.jpg/1280px-Grimmepreis_2014_096.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Lars Eidinger bei der Verleihung des Grimme-Preises 2014.](https://film.one/media/person/93890/gallery-6ce48a2aa62f.jpg) Lars Eidinger bei der Verleihung des Grimme-Preises 2014. — Krd, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Grimmepreis_2014_103.jpg/1280px-Grimmepreis_2014_103.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Lars Eidinger](https://film.one/media/person/93890/gallery-579ef51077e9.jpg) Lars Eidinger — Image via TMDB - ![Lars Eidinger](https://film.one/media/person/93890/gallery-3006b780ad43.jpg) Lars Eidinger — Image via TMDB - ![Lars Eidinger](https://film.one/media/person/93890/gallery-0f85c0280ae6.jpg) Lars Eidinger — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Other awards — 3 won, 3 nominated - Bambi Award 2024: Bambi Award (won) - European Film Award for Best Actor 2024: European Film Award for Best Actor (nominated), for *Dying* - Tie Man of the Year 2018: Tie Man of the Year (won) - Bavarian TV Awards 2014: Bavarian TV Awards (nominated) - Deutscher Schauspielpreis 2013: Deutscher Schauspielpreis (nominated) - Preis der deutschen Filmkritik 2013: Preis der deutschen Filmkritik (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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