
Udo Kier
Department: Acting
Biography
Udo Kierspe (October 14, 1944 – November 23, 2025), known professionally as Udo Kier, was a German actor. Known primarily as a cult character actor who portrayed eccentric and deviant figures, he appeared in more than 220 films in both leading and supporting roles throughout Europe and the Americas. He collaborated with acclaimed filmmakers such as Lars von Trier, Gus Van Sant, Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Walerian Borowczyk, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Dario Argento, Tom Shadyac, Charles Matton, Guy Maddin, Alexander Payne, and Paul Morrissey.
Known For

Dancer in the Dark
2000

Breaking the Waves
1996

Lili Marleen
1981

My Own Private Idaho
1991

Dogville
2003

Halloween
2007

Flesh for Frankenstein
1973
Crusade in Jeans
2006

Manderlay
2005

Iron Sky
2012

The Story of O
1975

Dracula 3000
2004

Shadow of the Vampire
2000

Modern Vampires
1998

The Kingdom
1994

The Kingdom II
1998

Possessed
1999

Am nächsten Morgen kehrte der Minister nicht an seinen Arbeitsplatz zurück
1986

Far Cry
2008

Prince Valiant
1997

All the Queen's Men
2001

Barb Wire
1996

Narcissus and Psyche
1980

Lulu and Jimi
2009

Europa
1991

1½ Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde
2008

FearDotCom
2002

Blood for Dracula
1974

End of Days
1999

Headspace
2005

Evil Eyes
2004

Johnny Mnemonic
1995

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994

The Last Trip to Harrisburg
1984

Medea
1989

Blade
1998

Metropia
2009

Ice
1998

The Mother of Tears
2007

The 120 Days of Bottrop
1997

Holly
2006

Surviving Christmas
2004

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010

Melancholia
2011

Pray for Morning
2006

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
1981

Love Object
2004

The End of Violence
1997

One Point O
2004

Doomsdayer
2001

Exposé
1976

Mark of the Devil
1970

Bad Painter
2025

Invincible
2001

The Adventures of Pinocchio
1996

A Trick of the Light
1995

Görünmeyen
2011

A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love
2022

House of Boys
2009

30 Days Until I'm Famous
2004

The German Chainsaw Massacre
1990

Pars: Operation Cherry
2007

Life Is Too Long
2010

A Kilo of Blue (The Music)
2022

Von Trier's 100 Eyes
2000

Just One Night
2000

The Theatre Bizarre
2011

Double Deception
2000

Keyhole
2011

United Trash
1996

Revelation
2001

The Killing Grounds
2007

100 Years Of Adolf Hitler: The Last Hour In The Führerbunker
1989

UFO in Her Eyes
2011

Under the Palms
1999

Night of the Templar
2012

The Third Generation
1979

I Knew Andy Warhol
2018

Terror 2000
1993

He Sees You When You're Sleeping
2002

Critical Mass
2001

Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho
1988

Lulu
1980

The Island of the Bloody Plantation
1983

Shameless
1968

The Praying Mantis
2001

BloodRayne
2005

Duke of Groove
1996

Deutschland privat
1980

Staging Death
2022

Mrs. Meitlemeihr
2002

Death of a World Star
1994

Egomania: Island Without Hope
1987

The New Adventures of Pinocchio
1999

Jack Reed: Badge of Honor
1993

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
2013

Seduction: The Cruel Woman
1986

Die wilden Fünfziger
1983

The Stationmaster’s Wife
1977

Rotwang Must Go!
1994

The Beginner
1985

Anecdotes from 'Epidemic'
2005

Soul Kitchen
2009

Tell
2007

Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
2001

Season of the Senses
1969

My Neighbor Adolf
2022

Nur über meine Leiche
1995

Red Letters
2000

Road to St. Tropez
1966

Extinct
1995

The Editor
2014

Iron Sky: The Coming Race
2019

Auf Herz und Nieren
2001

Provocation
1971

Armageddon
1998

The Forbidden Room
2015

Fall Down Dead
2007

Jargo
2004

Beethoven's Treasure Tail
2014

Sex
1992

Cigarette Burns
2005

Skeletons in the Closet
2024

13 Graves
2006

Arteholic
2014

Theirs
—

Coconut Hero
2015

Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
2022

The Sky Has Four Corners
2011

Lea
1996

The Berlin Project
2011

Modigliani
2004

Celluloid Horror
2004

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1994

The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015

Unser Reigen
2006

Gate to Heaven
2003

Brother
2016

Pigs Will Fly
2003

Spy Games
1999

Ich - Udo
2012

Seances
2016

Siblings
1982

The Last Word
1975

Downsizing
2017

Blood of 1000 Virgins
2013

Brawl in Cell Block 99
2017

Hungarian Rhapsody
1979

The Secret Agent
2025

Courier X
2016

Unter Druck
1995

The Lords of Salem
2013

Grindhouse
2007

Final Run
1999

Mother's Mask
1988

Miss Diamond
1999

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
2018

The Last Minute
2002

Gold Flakes
1976

Korn: Deuce
2002

Josh & S.A.M.
1993

Phantasmagoria of the Interior
2015

Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
2018

Lola
1981

My Own Private River
2012

The Painted Bird
2019

The Making of Europa
1991

Dragged Across Concrete
2019

The Debtors
1999

Olifant
1973

Johnny Walker
2015

American Animals
2018

The Ark: An Iron Sky Story
—

Zero
2018

Instant Dreams
2017

Daughter of Mine
2018

Lines of the Hand
2015

La deuxième femme
2008

The Salzburg Connection
1972

Intangents
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Betty
1997

Bel Canto or May a Hooker Sob?
1977

Victor
1979

Stingers
1998

Hur und Heilig
1984

Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
2018

Conflict of Emotions
1971

The Mountain
2019

Bacurau
2019

Fifty Shades of Erotica
2015

The Barefoot Emperor
2020

Suspiria 25th Anniversary
2001

Last Moment of Clarity
2020

Epidemic
1987

American Exit
2019

Holy Beasts
2019

Der Unbesiegbare
1985

Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017

The Material Boy
2015

Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
2001

Dimension
2010

Skin Walker
2019

The Fifth Commandment
1978

Pankow ’95
1983

Chompy & the Girls
2021

Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
2020

Memories of a Young Pianist
2009

Spermula
1976

Bacurau no Mapa
2019

Suspiria
1977

Paradise Framed
1995

For Love or Money
1993

Killer Deal
1999

Sportliche Schatten – Kunst in Krisenzeiten
1982

Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween
2008

Pan
1973

Fear and Loathing in Materndorf
2004

11 Colours of the Bird
2020

Plötzlich und unerwartet - eine Déjà-Revue
1993

Haymaker
2021

The Blazing World
2021

És így s eképp tovább
1978

Swan Song
2021

There's No Fish Food in Heaven
1998

Idiots' Battle
1986

By Design
2026

The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence
2013

Der wunderbare Udo Kier
2024

Tattoos: A Scarred History
2009

Three Shake-a-Leg Steps to Heaven
1993

Schindler Space Architect
2024

Madonna: The Making of SEX Book
1992

Return from Tomorrow
2026

Nash Bridges
1996

seaQuest DSV
1993

The Batman
2004

Masters of Horror
2005

Red Shoe Diaries
1992

Justice League
2001

4 Against Z
2005

Scene of the Crime
1970

Kir Royal
1986

Polizeiruf 110
1971

Die Männer vom K3
1988

Chuck
2007

Doppelter Einsatz
1994

Rosa Roth
1994

Scene of the Crime
1970

Old Money
2015

Sonderdezernat K1
1972

Der Fahnder
1984

Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995

Gestern gelesen
1969

Dr. med. Mark Wedmann - Detektiv inbegriffen
1974

Viper
1994

Evening Urgant
2012

Hunters
2020

Through the Night with...
2002

Beware the Batman
2013

Joseph Balsamo
1973

Die Gang
1997

Gespenstergeschichten
1985

Talk 2000
1997

M - A City Hunts a Murderer
2019

Major Lazer
2015

Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin
2022

Zimmer frei!
1996

The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998

alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
1994

Tietjen und Bommes
1997

Boulevard Bio
1991

The Sentinel
1996

NDR Talk Show
1979

3 nach 9
1974

Beckmann
1999

G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
2005

Willemsens Woche
1995

Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
2010

The Kingdom
1994

V.I.P.
1998

Thadeusz
2005

Brisant
1994

Morgenmagazin
1992

Berlin Alexanderplatz
1980