Born in Urbana, Illinois to Austrian-Jewish refugees, he pursued drama at Vienna’s Max Reinhardt Seminar before debuting at the city’s Volkstheater and later joining ensembles in Hanover, Wiesbaden and the Munich Kammerspiele. A film breakthrough arrived with The Promise (1994), after earlier roles in Café Europa (1990) and Voyager (1991). Subsequent highlights include Talk of the Town (1995), Win…
