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August DiehlGerman actor
Date of Birth: 04.01.1976
Country:  Germany |
Content:
- August Diehl's Early Life and Family
- Education and Career Beginnings
- Film Career
- "Inglourious Basterds" (2009) as Dieter Helsstrom
- Controversies
- Recent Projects and "Voland"
August Diehl's Early Life and Family
August Diehl was born on January 4, 1976, in West Berlin, Germany. His father, Hans Diehl, is an actor, and his mother is a costume designer. Diehl also has a younger brother, Jakob Diehl, who is a musician. Diehl spent his early childhood in the Auvergne region of France but returned to Germany at the age of nine.
Education and Career Beginnings
After graduating from high school, Diehl studied acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art in Berlin. In 1998, he made his film debut in "23," playing the lead role of Karl Koch, a young German computer genius.
Film Career
Diehl's breakthrough role came in Volker Schlöndorff's "The Ninth Day" (2004), in which he portrayed the Nazi officer Dieter Helsstrom. He has since starred in a diverse range of films, including:
"Inglourious Basterds" (2009) as Dieter Helsstrom
"The Counterfeiters" (2007) as Adolf Burger"Buddenbrooks" (2008) as Christian Buddenbrook
"Salt" (2010) as Mike Krause
"King's Man: The Beginning" (2021) as Karl Marx
"A Hidden Life" (2019) as Franz Jägerstätter
"Kursk" (2018) as Anton Markov
Personal Life
From 1999 to 2016, Diehl was married to actress Julia Malik, with whom he had two children, a daughter and a son. Diehl plays the guitar and speaks English, French, and Spanish in addition to German.
Controversies
In 2011, Diehl and two companions were convicted of trespassing and vandalism after breaking into a record store in Regensburg and stealing a record and a guitar while intoxicated.
Recent Projects and "Voland"
In recent years, Diehl has starred in several films set during or leading up to World War II, including "Operation Finale" (2018) and "Munich: The Edge of War" (2021). In 2022, he portrayed the iconic character of Woland in Mikhail Lokšin's "Voland," an adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel "The Master and Margarita."
