Udo Kier
Born: 1944-10-14
Place of Birth: Cologne, Germany
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
The Secret Agent
2025★ 7.9
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
2013★ 6.7
Armageddon
1998★ 6.8
Blade
1998★ 6.8
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1994★ 6.6
End of Days
1999★ 6.1
The Killing Grounds
2007★ 3.4
Dogville
2003★ 7.8
Fifty Shades of Erotica
2015★ 7.0
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
2001★ 6.4
Bacurau
2019★ 7.7
Surviving Christmas
2004★ 5.7
Prince Valiant
1997★ 5.1
Grindhouse
2007★ 7.0
Halloween
2007★ 6.2
Suspiria
1977★ 7.5
Exposé
1976★ 4.8
BloodRayne
2005★ 4.2
The Praying Mantis
2001★ 6.5
The Story of O
1975★ 5.5
The Beginner
1985★ 5.5
Am nächsten Morgen kehrte der Minister nicht an seinen Arbeitsplatz zurück
1986★ 0.0
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017★ 2.0
My Own Private Idaho
1991★ 7.1
Idiots' Battle
1986★ 0.0
Lili Marleen
1981★ 6.4
Critical Mass
2001★ 4.3
The Mountain
2019★ 5.1
Soul Kitchen
2009★ 6.9
Manderlay
2005★ 6.9
Celluloid Horror
2004★ 7.0
Downsizing
2017★ 5.4
Melancholia
2011★ 7.2
Blood for Dracula
1974★ 5.8
Love Object
2004★ 5.9
FearDotCom
2002★ 3.8
Dragged Across Concrete
2019★ 6.6
Ice
1998★ 5.1
Far Cry
2008★ 3.7
Dancer in the Dark
2000★ 7.9
For Love or Money
1993★ 6.2
Iron Sky
2012★ 5.7
Spy Games
1999★ 4.2
Pankow ’95
1983★ 0.0
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
2018★ 4.8
Dracula 3000
2004★ 2.7
Final Run
1999★ 5.5
Swan Song
2021★ 6.9
Red Letters
2000★ 4.4
Johnny Mnemonic
1995★ 5.8
Daughter of Mine
2018★ 6.2
13 Graves
2006★ 4.4
Modigliani
2004★ 7.0
Modern Vampires
1998★ 4.9
Hungarian Rhapsody
1979★ 6.0
Miss Diamond
1999★ 4.5
Skin Walker
2019★ 4.8
Invincible
2001★ 6.2
Brawl in Cell Block 99
2017★ 7.0
The Debtors
1999★ 3.0
Seances
2016★ 6.7
Lulu and Jimi
2009★ 5.7
Revelation
2001★ 4.9
Spermula
1976★ 4.1
Lola
1981★ 6.9
The Mother of Tears
2007★ 4.5
Keyhole
2011★ 5.2
The Blazing World
2021★ 4.4
Flesh for Frankenstein
1973★ 5.8
Iron Sky: The Coming Race
2019★ 5.2
The Stationmaster’s Wife
1977★ 5.2
Breaking the Waves
1996★ 7.5
Courier X
2016★ 5.5
Korn: Deuce
2002★ 7.4
Lulu
1980★ 4.1
The Third Generation
1979★ 5.9
Doomsdayer
2001★ 4.0
Shameless
1968★ 5.6
Intangents
N/A★ 0.0
Metropia
2009★ 6.1
Gate to Heaven
2003★ 0.0
Epidemic
1987★ 5.7
Mrs. Meitlemeihr
2002★ 5.7
Bad Painter
2025★ 7.0
Lea
1996★ 5.1
Gold Flakes
1976★ 9.0
Barb Wire
1996★ 4.1
Theirs
N/A★ 0.0
The Painted Bird
2019★ 7.1
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
2018★ 6.7
Haymaker
2021★ 3.2
Tell
2007★ 5.7
Brother
2016★ 6.6
Dimension
2010★ 5.3
Stingers
1998★ 0.0
My Neighbor Adolf
2022★ 6.6
Jargo
2004★ 5.6
Pray for Morning
2006★ 4.7
Last Moment of Clarity
2020★ 5.2
Headspace
2005★ 5.1
Betty
1997★ 2.0
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
2018★ 5.7
The Theatre Bizarre
2011★ 5.3
American Animals
2018★ 6.7
Coconut Hero
2015★ 5.9
Pigs Will Fly
2003★ 8.0
Mother's Mask
1988★ 4.4
Europa
1991★ 7.4
Shadow of the Vampire
2000★ 6.6
United Trash
1996★ 4.1
A Trick of the Light
1995★ 5.8
The German Chainsaw Massacre
1990★ 3.8
The Forbidden Room
2015★ 5.6
Instant Dreams
2017★ 6.7
11 Colours of the Bird
2020★ 7.2
The Barefoot Emperor
2020★ 5.5
The New Adventures of Pinocchio
1999★ 5.5
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1996★ 5.3
The Lords of Salem
2013★ 5.4
Medea
1989★ 6.5
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
1981★ 5.6
Possessed
1999★ 4.8
Holly
2006★ 6.3
One Point O
2004★ 5.6
Zero
2018★ 4.8
Phantasmagoria of the Interior
2015★ 5.0
The Last Word
1975★ 2.0
Just One Night
2000★ 5.0
Johnny Walker
2015★ 0.0
Görünmeyen
2011★ 0.0
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
2001★ 4.5
A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love
2022★ 4.9
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010★ 6.1
Beethoven's Treasure Tail
2014★ 5.7
Tattoos: A Scarred History
2009★ 0.0
Crusade in Jeans
2006★ 5.8
Jack Reed: Badge of Honor
1993★ 5.3
Chompy & the Girls
2021★ 5.7
By Design
2026★ 0.0
Cigarette Burns
2005★ 7.3
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994★ 4.4
The Material Boy
2015★ 0.0
Arteholic
2014★ 5.0
The Ark: An Iron Sky Story
N/A★ 0.0
House of Boys
2009★ 6.1
The Kingdom
1994★ 7.8
Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
2022★ 0.0
Night of the Templar
2012★ 3.9
The End of Violence
1997★ 5.3
Mark of the Devil
1970★ 6.1
Pars: Operation Cherry
2007★ 5.0
Road to St. Tropez
1966★ 3.2
Duke of Groove
1996★ 5.0
Narcissus and Psyche
1980★ 6.1
Under the Palms
1999★ 0.0
Der wunderbare Udo Kier
2024★ 0.0
Deutschland privat
1980★ 4.2
Seduction: The Cruel Woman
1986★ 5.2
Terror 2000
1993★ 4.7
Sex
1992★ 7.5
Die wilden Fünfziger
1983★ 2.0
Conflict of Emotions
1971★ 2.0
Josh & S.A.M.
1993★ 4.7
La deuxième femme
2008★ 6.0
The Last Minute
2002★ 4.9
All the Queen's Men
2001★ 4.8
Fall Down Dead
2007★ 4.0
1½ Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde
2008★ 4.3
30 Days Until I'm Famous
2004★ 4.2
The Kingdom II
1998★ 7.7
The Editor
2014★ 5.6
Ich - Udo
2012★ 6.0
There's No Fish Food in Heaven
1998★ 3.7
Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho
1988★ 1.0
Evil Eyes
2004★ 3.2
Death of a World Star
1994★ 10.0
A Kilo of Blue (The Music)
2022★ 0.0
My Own Private River
2012★ 7.5
Extinct
1995★ 6.5
The Berlin Project
2011★ 0.0
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015★ 6.0
American Exit
2019★ 5.7
Von Trier's 100 Eyes
2000★ 7.2
The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence
2013★ 0.0
Blood of 1000 Virgins
2013★ 5.3
Provocation
1971★ 4.1
Skeletons in the Closet
2024★ 4.3
The Sky Has Four Corners
2011★ 0.0
Killer Deal
1999★ 0.0
The Fifth Commandment
1978★ 0.0
Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween
2008★ 6.7
Over My Dead Body
1995★ 6.3
The 120 Days of Bottrop
1997★ 5.1
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
1984★ 6.0
Plötzlich und unerwartet - eine Déjà-Revue
1993★ 0.0
Auf Herz und Nieren
2001★ 3.0
I Knew Andy Warhol
2018★ 0.0
The Island of the Bloody Plantation
1983★ 3.7
Egomania: Island Without Hope
1987★ 5.0
Double Deception
2000★ 4.0
Lines of the Hand
2015★ 7.0
Staging Death
2022★ 6.0
Life Is Too Long
2010★ 5.0
UFO in Her Eyes
2011★ 6.4
Unter Druck
1995★ 5.0
He Sees You When You're Sleeping
2002★ 5.9
Season of the Senses
1969★ 5.0
Bel Canto or May a Hooker Sob?
1977★ 0.0
The Salzburg Connection
1972★ 5.7
Holy Beasts
2019★ 4.4
Schindler Space Architect
2024★ 10.0
Sportliche Schatten – Kunst in Krisenzeiten
1982★ 0.0
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
2020★ 6.0
Bacurau no Mapa
2019★ 8.0
100 Years Of Adolf Hitler: The Last Hour In The Führerbunker
1989★ 6.8
És így s eképp tovább
1978★ 0.0
Madonna: The Making of SEX Book
1992★ 0.0
Paradise Framed
1995★ 0.0
Three Shake-a-Leg Steps to Heaven
1993★ 0.0