Klaus Maria Brandauer
Klaus Maria Brandauer (German pronunciation: [klaʊ̯s maˈʀiːa ˈbʀandaʊ̯ɐ] ⓘ; born Klaus Georg Steng; 22 June 1943) is an Austrian actor and director. He is also a professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar.
Klaus Maria Brandauer
Actor, director
1962–present
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Brandauer is known internationally for his roles in The Russia House (1990), Mephisto (1981), Never Say Never Again (1983), Out of Africa (1985), Hanussen (1988), Burning Secret (1988), and White Fang (1991). For his supporting role as Bror von Blixen-Finecke in the drama film Out of Africa (1985), Brandauer was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award.
Brandauer has a working knowledge of at least five languages: German, Italian, Hungarian, English and French and has acted in each.
Personal life[edit]
Brandauer was born as Klaus Georg Steng in Bad Aussee, Austria.[3] He is the son of Maria Brandauer and Georg Steng (or Stenj), a civil servant.[4] He subsequently took his mother's name as part of his professional name, Klaus Maria Brandauer.
His first wife was Karin Katharina Müller (14 October 1945 – 13 November 1992), an Austrian film and television director and screenwriter, from 1963 until her death in 1992, aged 47, from cancer. Both were teenagers when they married, in 1963. They had one son, Christian.[5] Brandauer married Natalie Krenn in 2007.