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Klaus Maria Brandauer
Klaus Maria Brandauer (Austrian German: [klaʊs maˈriːa ˈbrandaʊɐ] ⓘ; born Klaus Georg Steng; 22 June 1943) is an Austrian actor and director. He is also a professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar.
Brandauer is known internationally for his roles in Mephisto (1981), Never Say Never Again (1983), Hanussen (1988), Burning Secret (1988), The Russia House (1990), and White Fang (1991).
For his supporting role as Bror von Blixen-Finecke in Out of Africa (1985), he was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award.
Brandauer has a working knowledge of and has acted in at least five languages including German, Italian, Hungarian, English and French.
Brandauer was born as Klaus Georg Steng in Bad Aussee, Austria (then part of the German Reich). He is the son of Maria Brandauer and Georg Steng (or Stenj), a civil servant. He subsequently took his mother's name as part of his professional name, Klaus Maria Brandauer.
His first wife was Karin Katharina Müller (14 October 1945 – 13 November 1992), an Austrian film and television director and screenwriter, from 1963 until her death in 1992, aged 47, from cancer. Both were teenagers when they married, in 1963. They had one son, Christian. Brandauer married Natalie Krenn in 2007.
Brandauer began acting on stage in 1962. After working in national theatre and television, he made his film debut in English in 1972, in The Salzburg Connection. In 1975 he played in Derrick – in Season 2, Episode 8 called "Pfandhaus". His starring and award-winning role in István Szabó's Mephisto (1981) playing a self-absorbed actor, launched his international career. (He would later act in Szabó's 1985 Oberst Redl.)
Following his role in Mephisto, Brandauer appeared as Maximillian Largo in Never Say Never Again (1983), a remake of the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball. Roger Ebert said of his performance: "For one thing, there's more of a human element in the movie, and it comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, as Largo. Brandauer is a wonderful actor, and he chooses not to play the villain as a cliché. Instead, he brings a certain poignancy and charm to Largo, and since Connery always has been a particularly human James Bond, the emotional stakes are more convincing this time."
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Klaus Maria Brandauer
Klaus Maria Brandauer (Austrian German: [klaʊs maˈriːa ˈbrandaʊɐ] ⓘ; born Klaus Georg Steng; 22 June 1943) is an Austrian actor and director. He is also a professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar.
Brandauer is known internationally for his roles in Mephisto (1981), Never Say Never Again (1983), Hanussen (1988), Burning Secret (1988), The Russia House (1990), and White Fang (1991).
For his supporting role as Bror von Blixen-Finecke in Out of Africa (1985), he was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award.
Brandauer has a working knowledge of and has acted in at least five languages including German, Italian, Hungarian, English and French.
Brandauer was born as Klaus Georg Steng in Bad Aussee, Austria (then part of the German Reich). He is the son of Maria Brandauer and Georg Steng (or Stenj), a civil servant. He subsequently took his mother's name as part of his professional name, Klaus Maria Brandauer.
His first wife was Karin Katharina Müller (14 October 1945 – 13 November 1992), an Austrian film and television director and screenwriter, from 1963 until her death in 1992, aged 47, from cancer. Both were teenagers when they married, in 1963. They had one son, Christian. Brandauer married Natalie Krenn in 2007.
Brandauer began acting on stage in 1962. After working in national theatre and television, he made his film debut in English in 1972, in The Salzburg Connection. In 1975 he played in Derrick – in Season 2, Episode 8 called "Pfandhaus". His starring and award-winning role in István Szabó's Mephisto (1981) playing a self-absorbed actor, launched his international career. (He would later act in Szabó's 1985 Oberst Redl.)
Following his role in Mephisto, Brandauer appeared as Maximillian Largo in Never Say Never Again (1983), a remake of the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball. Roger Ebert said of his performance: "For one thing, there's more of a human element in the movie, and it comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, as Largo. Brandauer is a wonderful actor, and he chooses not to play the villain as a cliché. Instead, he brings a certain poignancy and charm to Largo, and since Connery always has been a particularly human James Bond, the emotional stakes are more convincing this time."
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