David Kross

David Kross, a German actor born in Henstedt-Ulzburg, began his career as a child with a small part in the film Help, I'm a Boy! (2002). He joined a children's theater group and had his first major stage appearance before attracting the notice of director Detlev Buck, who cast him as the lead in Tough Enough. That role brought him praise at the Berlinale and a best actor award in Nuremberg. He reunited with Buck for Hands off Mississippi and played the title role in Krabat and the Legend of the Satanic Mill (2008). His breakthrough came as Michael Berg in The Reader (2008), opposite Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes, for which he won the Chopard trophy at Cannes and a Las Vegas Film Critics Society award, and was nominated for a European Film Award. He later appeared in War Horse (2011), Race (2016), and Into the White (2012), working in both German and English-language films.