Werner Daehn

After four years of studying acting, Werner Daehn started his career with roles at various theatre plays throughout Germany. His international breakthrough on the big screen was in 2002 with his role as chain-smoking antagonist of Vin Diesel in the blockbuster movie Triple X, directed by Rob Cohen. His profile rose quickly with further international productions such as THE Lives of Others (2006) which was celebrated worldwide and won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and THE Counterfeiters (2007) which was awarded with an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the Top Five Foreign Film Award of the National Board of Review, and was nominated at the Online Film Critics Society Awards. In the TV series Fleming about James Bond for BBC America, Werner took on the role of Hugo Berger. In Field of lost Shoes(2014, directed by Sean McNamara) he played the historic character of General Franz Sigel. Werner Daehn played alongside Tom Cruise as Major Ernst John von Freyend