Alexander Beyer
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  • Born:
    • Birthday: 1973-06-24
    • Born Place: Erfurt, Germany
  • Also Known As:

    Александр Байер

Alexander Beyer

Alexander Beyer (born June 24 1973 in Erfurt, East Germany) is a distinguished German actor renowned for his versatile performances in both film and television. After honing his craft at the Ernst Busch School of Drama in Berlin, he built an impressive résumé starting in the late 1990s. Beyer gained early recognition in The Legend of Rita (1999), Sun Alley (2000), and the Oscar®-nominated short Gregor’s Greatest Invention (2001), before earning wider acclaim in the cult hit Good Bye, Lenin! (2003) . Since then, he has appeared in a broad range of international and German-language productions, including Munich (directed by Spielberg, 2005), War and Peace (2007), Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna (2008), Deutschland 83/86, Park Chan-wook’s The Little Drummer Girl (2018), and more recently Persian Lessons (2020), Operation Mincemeat (2021), Dalíland (2022), and Philip Koch’s sci‑fi Brick (2025). Beyer is known for his deep bass-baritone presence and fluency in German, English, and Russian. A native of a Thüringer violin-maker family, he's lived and worked in Berlin and Zurich. He shares a partnership with actress Annika Blendl, with whom he has a son. A member of the German Film Academy, he was nominated for a Bavarian TV Award in 2008 for his role in War and Peace, and continues to impress with his commanding yet nuanced screen presence.

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