Lars Eidinger

Lars Eidinger is one of my favorite kinds of performer: the stage animal who can survive a camera. Trained at the Ernst Busch academy in Berlin, he carries the raw, dangerous energy of live theater into screen work like Babylon Berlin and All the Light We Cannot See, and that translation is genuinely rare. The accolades, from the 2013 German Film Critics' prize to the 2024 Bambi, confirm what audiences already feel. He refuses to be boxed in, even moonlighting as a rapper, and I find that restless, uncategorizable quality magnetic. For me he's the gold standard of an actor who treats every medium as territory to conquer.

Name (English)

Lars Eidinger

Name (Japanese)

ラース・アイディンガー

Reading

らーす・あいでぃんがー

Born

January 21, 1976 (age 50)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Dragon

Origin

West Berlin, Allied-occupied Germany

Occupation

stage actor / film actor / actor / presenter / speaker

Awards & achievements

• 2013 Preis der deutschen Filmkritik
• Austrian Film Award
• 2018 Tie Man of the Year
• 2024 Bambi Award

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/larseidinger/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars%20Eidinger
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1806191

Tags

• stage actor
• film actor
• actor

Last updated

2026-06-20

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.