Ulrich Matthes

Biography

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 movieThe Ninth Day, he plays Fr. Henri Kremer, a Catholic priest imprisoned at Dachau.

In 2005 he was voted "Actor of the Year" by 'Theater heute' magazine for his performance in Edward Albees' "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".

Ulrich Matthes has also dubbed many American actors such as Kenneth Braga, Malcom McDowell, Charlie Sheen, Ralph Fiennes, and Richard Thomas.

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Known For

23 000 Lives 2026 ★ 5.3
Visitation 2026
Milk Teeth 2024 ★ 5.8
Jupiter 2023 ★ 6.1
Munich - The Edge of War 2021 ★ 6.9
The Story of My Wife 2021 ★ 5.8
Der Menschenfeind 2020
A Hidden Life 2019 ★ 7.2
Das Boot 2018 ★ 7.0
Die Puppenspieler 2017 ★ 5.3
Exiled 2016 ★ 6.3
Open the Wall 2014 ★ 7.3
The Notebook 2013 ★ 6.5
Cracks in the Shell 2012 ★ 6.1
Faust Sonnengesang 2011 ★ 7.5
Downfall 2004 ★ 7.9
SOKO Leipzig 2001 ★ 6.2
Aimée & Jaguar 1999 ★ 6.7
Wolffs Revier 1992 ★ 3.7
A Case For Two 1981 ★ 5.6
The Old Fox 1977 ★ 6.3
Derrick 1974 ★ 6.1
Polizeiruf 110 1971 ★ 6.3
Scene of the Crime 1970 ★ 6.2