Werner Daehn

Werner Daehn is a German actor who studied acting for four years before beginning his career in theater productions across Germany. He gained international attention in 2002 as the chain-smoking villain opposite Vin Diesel in Rob Cohen's xXx (2002). Further films followed, among them The Lives of Others (2006) and The Counterfeiters (2007), both of which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He appeared in Valkyrie (2008) as Major Ernst John von Freyend, alongside Tom Cruise, reunited with Rob Cohen on Alex Cross (2012), and appeared in Dome Karukoski's Tom of Finland (2017). On television he had a lead part in NBC's Constantine, and he was seen in the BBC's United (2011) and The 39 Steps (2008), as well as in Fleming and Colditz. In Germany he became known for roles in the crime series Tatort. Later film work includes Field of Lost Shoes (2014) and Medieval (2022).