Martin Brambach

Bio: An Eastern European actor typically cast as easily recognizable domestic types -- including policemen, bankers, and physicians -- Martin Brambach essayed the majority of his screen assignments in his native Germany. He began in productions that seldom traveled abroad, such as the 1999 Kubanisch Rauchen and Michael Hoffmann's 2002 Sophiiiie!, but with a pair of… More Bio: An Eastern European actor typically cast as easily recognizable domestic types -- including policemen, bankers, and physicians -- Martin Brambach essayed the majority of his screen assignments in his native Germany. He began in productions that seldom traveled abroad, such as the 1999 Kubanisch Rauchen and Michael Hoffmann's 2002 Sophiiiie!, but with a pair of international arthouse hits achieved substantial crossover success: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's period political thriller The Lives of Others (2006, as Officer Meyer) and Stefan Ruzowitzky's The Counterfeiters (2007, as a Nazi concentration camp murderer). ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi