Sylvester Groth
Introduction '''Sylvester Groth''' (born 31 March 1958) is a German theater, television, and film actor. He is best known to international audiences from his appearances in Hollywood movies including ''Inglourious Basterds'' and ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E''. Furthermore, he has appeared in the Netflix series ''Sense8'', ''Fargo'', and ''Dark''.
Biography Groth is the youngest of five siblings from Jerichow (Bezirk Magdeburg) in the former German Democratic Republic, where he also spent his childhood. His family is from Upper Silesia. Groth's father died while he was still young, and his mother married a second time. When he was 14 years old, the family moved to Leipzig. In 1986, he escaped from East Germany to West Germany.He studied acting and singing at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. This was followed by engagements in Schwerin, Dresden, and Berlin, where he worked as a guest actor at the Deutsches Theater and from 1986 to 1989 at the Schaubühne. He also worked at the Residenz Theater, the Munich Kammerspiele, the Berliner Ensemble, the Burgtheater in Vienna, and the Salzburg Festival.In addition to an extensive theater career, Groth has also acted in numerous television productions and feature films.His first major film role was in 1983 in the East German film ''The Turning Point'', based on a novel by Hermann Kant. In 1986, he appeared in Johannes Schaaf's adaptation of Michael Ende's story ''Momo''. In 1992, he acted in the war drama ''Stalingrad'' and in 2006 he took on the role of Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels in Dani Levy's ''My Führer – The Really Truest Truth about Adolf Hitler''.Groth is known to English-language audiences for appearing in Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film ''Inglourious Basterds'', in which he also portrayed Goebbels. Most recently, he has held a leading role in the Netflix series ''Dark'' as Clausen, a police investigator, as well as appearing in the first episode of the third season of ''Fargo''.In January 2013, the Film Museum in Potsdam honoured Groth with a retrospective. On 1 December 2017, he received an award from the DEFA Foundation for his outstanding achievements in German film.
Selected filmography ===Film===+List of film appearances, with year, title, and role shown Year Title Role Notes1983''The Turning Point''Mark Niebuhr1986''The House on the River''Heinz Hüsgen1986''Momo''Agent BLW/553 X1992''The Last U-Boat''Funker Maschke1993''Stalingrad''Otto2003''The Third Wave''Dauphin2006''Nevermore''Pfarrer Ekdahl2007''My Führer – The Really Truest Truth about Adolf Hitler''Joseph Goebbels2008''The Reader''Prosecutor''Buddenbrooks''Kesselmayer2009''Hilde''Boleslaw Barlog''Inglourious Basterds''Joseph Goebbels2010''Aghet – Ein Völkermord''Martin NiepageDocumentary2015''Naked Among Wolves''Helmut Krämer''The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ''Uncle Rudi2017''In Times of Fading Light''Kurt Umnitzer2019''Berlin, I Love You''Frosch2022''The 355''Jonas Muller===Television===+List of television appearances, with year, title, and role shown Year Title Role Notes1990''Rote Erde''Fritz Rewandowski2003''Tatort: Stiller Tod''Justus Fürmann, public prosecutor2004''Mein Leben & Ich''4 episodes2005''Tatort: Rache-Engel''Chief of police2007''Rosa Roth''Michael Katzmann2007, 2013''Der Kriminalist''2 episodes2010''KDD – Kriminaldauerdienst''Richard Plötz1 episode2011''Tatort: Das Dorf''Medical examiner2012, 2014''The Old Fox''2 episodes2012''Tatort: Die schöne Mona ist tot''Christian Seitz2010''Generation War''Sturmbannführer/Standartenführer Hiemer2 episodes''Tatort: Schwarzer Afghane''Norbert Müller''Tatort: Wer das Schweigen bricht''Rainer Vaske2013-2015''Polizeiruf 110''Jochen Drexler4 parts2015''Sense8''Sergei Bogdanow4 episodes''Deutschland 83''Walter Schweppenstette8 episodes2016''NSU German History X: ''Walter Ahler2017''Tatort: Wacht am Rhein''Dieter Gottschalk''Fargo''Colonel Horst Lagerfeld1 episode2018''Deutschland 86''Walter Schweppenstette10 episodes2019''Dark''Clausen''Criminal: Germany''Detective Chief Inspector Karl Schultz3 episodes2020''Deutschland 89''Walter Schweppenstette8 episodes==Awards and honours== * Heinrich Greif Prize for ''The Turning Point'' (1984)* Television and film award from the German Academy of Performing Arts  for ''Romeo'' (2001)* Grimme-Preis for ''Romeo'' (2002)* Deutscher Kritikerpreis for the portrayal of Joseph Goebbels in ''My Führer – The Really Truest Truth about Adolf Hitler'' (2007)* DEFA Foundation Prize for outstanding achievements in German film (2017)
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