David Kross

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1990-07-04 (35 years old)

Place of Birth

Bargteheide, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

David Kross

Biography

David Kross (born 4 July 1990) is a German actor. He began his career at a young age with a small role in the 2002 film Hilfe, ich bin ein Junge and worked sporadically, mainly focusing on his schoolwork. In 2008, he portrayed Michael Berg in the film The Reader. For his part, he was nominated for various awards. He went on to win the Sierra Award at the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards for his work in Youth in Film. Kross has since worked in both German and English-speaking film roles, including War Horse, Race, and Into the White.

Acting

2006

Tough Enough

as Michael Polischka

2008

Krabat

as Krabat

2008

The Reader

as Young Michael Berg

2021

The King's Man

as Moustached Man

2011

Promising the Moon

as Young Osvalds Kalnins

2011

War Horse

as Gunther

2012

Into the White

as Josef Auchtor

2002

2022

A Stasi Comedy

as Ludger (jung)

2012

Measuring the World

as Eugen Gauß

2013

Angelique

as Louis XIV

2014

The Pasta Detectives

as Rainer Kiesling

2015

The Pasta Detectives 2

as Rainer Kiesling (archive footage) (uncredited)

2015

Boy 7

as Sam (Boy 7)

2023

The Peacock

as David

2016

The General Case

as Joachim Hell

2007

Hands off Mississippi

as Bäckerlehrling Bröckel

2016

The Pasta Detectives 3

as Rainer Kiesling

2016

Race

as Carl "Luz" Long

2017

2017

Halal Daddy

as Jasper

2018

Balloon

as Günter Wetzel

2018

The Keeper

as Bert Trautmann

2020

Rising High

as Viktor Steiner

2021

Confessions of Felix Krull

as Louis de Venosta

2021

Prey

as Roman

2025

Fabula

as The Grape

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