Udo Kier
Born October 14, 1944 · Cologne, Germany
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies
Blade
The Story of O
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
The Secret Agent
Armageddon
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Chompy & the Girls
Dragged Across Concrete
Grindhouse
Suspiria
Lola
Halloween
End of Days
Dogville
Downsizing
Johnny Mnemonic
Dancer in the Dark
Melancholia
Plötzlich und unerwartet - eine Déjà-Revue
My Own Private Idaho
Barb Wire
Fifty Shades of Erotica
Brawl in Cell Block 99
Iron Sky
For Love or Money
Am nächsten Morgen kehrte der Minister nicht an seinen Arbeitsplatz zurück
Provocation
Johnny Walker
Breaking the Waves
Iron Sky: The Coming Race
Conflict of Emotions
Manderlay
Zero
The Lords of Salem
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Last Moment of Clarity
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
TV Shows
NDR Talk Show
V.I.P.
Dark Winds
Chuck
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
Zimmer frei!
Nash Bridges
Brisant
Beckmann
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
seaQuest DSV
The Sentinel
Der Fahnder
Red Shoe Diaries
Hunters
Viper
Boulevard Bio
The Batman
Masters of Horror
Through the Night with...
Justice League
The Kingdom
Die Männer vom K3
Beware the Batman
Doppelter Einsatz
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Rosa Roth
Evening Urgant
Old Money
Major Lazer
4 Against Z
Kir Royal
Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin
Joseph Balsamo
M - A City Hunts a Murderer
Talk 2000
Gespenstergeschichten
More Movies
BloodRayne
Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
Shadow of the Vampire
Invincible
Surviving Christmas
FearDotCom
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
American Animals
The Material Boy
Metropia
A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
The Painted Bird
Seduction: The Cruel Woman
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
La deuxième femme
Holly
Bacurau
Europa
The Forbidden Room
Spermula
Possessed
Exposé
Flesh for Frankenstein
Beethoven's Treasure Tail
Soul Kitchen
Crusade in Jeans
Blood for Dracula
Far Cry
Mark of the Devil
By Design
Tattoos: A Scarred History
UFO in Her Eyes
Ice
Dimension
Modigliani
A Kilo of Blue (The Music)
Medea
Dracula 3000
House of Boys
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
Bad Painter
Cigarette Burns
Swan Song
Pankow ’95
The End of Violence
Haymaker
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
Sex
One Point O
Epidemic
Jack Reed: Badge of Honor
Road to St. Tropez
Prince Valiant
The Kingdom
Lili Marleen
Modern Vampires
Spy Games
Unreleased
The Ark: An Iron Sky Story
There's No Fish Food in Heaven
Schindler Space Architect
All the Queen's Men
Headspace
Jargo
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
Keyhole
Pars: Operation Cherry
Terror 2000
Seances
Skeletons in the Closet
11 Colours of the Bird
Duke of Groove
The Blazing World
Arteholic
Daughter of Mine
The Mother of Tears
My Neighbor Adolf
The Roaring Fifties
The Editor
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
Love Object
The Sky Has Four Corners
Von Trier's 100 Eyes
Unreleased
Intangents
Night of the Templar
The New Adventures of Pinocchio
Görünmeyen
Fall Down Dead
The Third Generation
The Last Word
A Trick of the Light
The Killing Grounds
1½ Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde
Betty
The Mountain
The Berlin Project
The Kingdom II
Blood of 1000 Virgins
Lulu
Courier X
Korn: Deuce
Life Is Too Long
Revelation
Unreleased
Theirs
30 Days Until I'm Famous
És így s eképp tovább
Der wunderbare Udo Kier
United Trash
Return from Tomorrow
13 Graves
Gold Flakes
Hur und Heilig
Phantasmagoria of the Interior
The Theatre Bizarre
Mother's Mask
Josh & S.A.M.
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
Under the Palms
Death of a World Star
Gate to Heaven
The Salzburg Connection
Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho
Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween
Critical Mass
Stingers
Skin Walker
The Beginner
The Debtors
Holy Beasts
The Last Minute
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
The 120 Days of Bottrop
Ich - Udo
My Own Private River
American Exit
Hungarian Rhapsody
The German Chainsaw Massacre
Red Letters
Pray for Morning
Egomania: Island Without Hope
The Island of the Bloody Plantation
100 Years of Adolf Hitler – The Last Hour in the Führerbunker
The Praying Mantis
Lulu and Jimi
Madonna: The Making of SEX Book
Coconut Hero
Idiots' Battle
I Knew Andy Warhol
Nur über meine Leiche
Auf Herz und Nieren
Doomsdayer
The Last Trip to Harrisburg
Just One Night
He Sees You When You're Sleeping
Celluloid Horror
Deutschland privat
Season of the Senses
The Barefoot Emperor
The Fifth Commandment
Final Run
Lea
Sportliche Schatten – Kunst in Krisenzeiten
Double Deception
Narcissus and Psyche
Instant Dreams
The Stationmaster’s Wife
Brother
Bacurau no Mapa
Shameless
Killer Deal
Lines of the Hand
Three Shake-a-Leg Steps to Heaven
Extinct
Evil Eyes
Staging Death
Tell
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
Mrs. Meitlemeihr
Bel Canto or May a Hooker Sob?
Pigs Will Fly
Unter Druck
Allegro Barbaro
Paradise Framed
Miss Diamond
