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Ulrich Matthes

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1959 - Today

Ulrich Matthes

Ulrich Matthes (born 9 May 1959) is a German actor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ulrich Matthes has received more than 396,267 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Ulrich Matthes is the 4,838th most popular actor (down from 3,651st in 2019), the 4,709th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,821st in 2019) and the 174th most popular German Actor.

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  • 3.24

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Among actors, Ulrich Matthes ranks 4,838 out of 13,578. Before her are Leigh Taylor-Young, Nathalia Timberg, Hippolyte Girardot, Chuck McCann, Marília Pêra, and Preity Zinta. After her are Greg Germann, Lya Mara, Haley Joel Osment, LeVar Burton, Terry Bradshaw, and Curly Howard.

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    Ulrich Matthes

    German actor

    Ulrich Matthes (born 9 May 1959) is a German actor. He is best known for having played Joseph Goebbels in the 2004 film Downfall.

    Life and work

    Matthes was born in West Berlin and educated at the Evangelisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster. He studied acting in the early 1980s in Berlin under Else Bongers. In the 2004 movie Downfall he plays Joseph Goebbels. In the 2004 movie The Ninth Day, he plays Fr. Henri Kremer, a Catholic priest imprisoned at Dachau. He is also the standard German voice for Kenneth Branagh along with Martin Umbach.

    In 2019, Matthes served on the jury that chose Pauline Curnier Jardin as winner of the Preis der Nationalgalerie.[1]

    Awards

    Film

    Television

    Personal life

    In February 2021, Matthes came out as gay.[6]

    In April 2023, Matthes was one of the 22 guests at the ceremony in which former ChancellorAngela Merkel was decorated with the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit for special achievement by PresidentFrank-Walter Steinmeier at Schloss Bellevue in

    Ulrich Matthes
    Is it me? Or does Goebbels look a lot less like himself?

    Born

    9 May 1959

    Known for

    Playing Joseph Goebbels

    Height

    1.80 m
    5' 10¾"

    Alternate names

    Uli Matthes
    Ulli Matthes

    Ulrich Matthes (born 9 May 1959, Berlin) is a German film and voice actor, best known for playing Joseph Goebbels in the 2004 film Downfall.

    Ulrich Matthes was born in Berlin. He studied acting in the early 1980's in Berlin under Else Bongers. Ulrich Matthes studied German and English, because he really wanted to become a teacher, so he also took private acting lessons during his studies. His first engagement brought him to the Vereinigte Bühnen in Krefeld, where he played the title role in "Prinz Friedrich von Homburg". Later he came to Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus, the Bavarian State Theatre, the Munich Studio Theater and the Schaubühne place. Since the 2004/2005 season, he is member of the ensemble at Deutsches Theater in Berlin. In the 2004 movie The Ninth Day, he plays Fr. Henri Kremer, a Catholic priest imprisoned at Dachau.

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