David Kross

Personal Info

Birthday

July 4, 1990

(35 years old)

Place of Birth

Bargteheide, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Also Known As

David Kroß

David Kross

Biography

David Kross (born 4 July 1990) is a German actor. He began his career at a young age with a small role in the 2002 film Hilfe, ich bin ein Junge and worked sporadically, mainly focusing on his schoolwork. In 2008, he portrayed Michael Berg in the film The Reader. For his part, he was nominated for various awards. He went on to win the Sierra Award at the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards for his work in Youth in Film. Kross has since worked in both German and English-speaking film roles, including War Horse, Race, and Into the White.

Known For

The King's Man

The Reader

Davos 1917

War Horse

Kafka

The Keeper

Race

Asbest

Filmography

2025
Fabula
as The Grape
The World Will Tremble
as Lange
2024
Everything's Fifty Fifty
as Robin
Home Sweet Home - Where Evil Lives
as Viktor
2023
The Peacock
as David
2022
A Stasi Comedy
as Ludger (jung)
2021
The King's Man
as Moustached Man
Prey
as Roman
Confessions of Felix Krull
as Louis de Venosta
2020
Rising High
as Viktor Steiner
2018
The Keeper
as Bert Trautmann
Balloon
as Günter Wetzel
2017
My Brother Simple
as Simpel
Halal Daddy
as Jasper
2016
The Pasta Detectives 3
as Rainer Kiesling
The General Case
as Joachim Hell
Race
as Carl "Luz" Long
2015
Boy 7
as Sam (Boy 7)
The Pasta Detectives 2
as Rainer Kiesling (archive footage) (uncredited)
2014
The Pasta Detectives
as Rainer Kiesling
2013
Angelique
as Louis XIV
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
as The Preacher
2012
The Pursuit of Unhappiness
as Benno
Measuring the World
as Eugen Gauß
Into the White
as Josef Auchtor
2011
War Horse
as Gunther
Promising the Moon
as Young Osvalds Kalnins
2009
Same Same But Different
as Ben
2008
The Reader
as Young Michael Berg
Krabat
as Krabat
2007
Hands off Mississippi
as Bäckerlehrling Bröckel
2006
Tough Enough
as Michael Polischka
2002
Help! I'm a Boy
as Paddy