Sebastian Rudolph is a German actor, born October 21, 1968, in Berlin. Son of actress Hildegard Schmahl and director Niels-Peter Rudolph, he trained in acting in Hamburg. Known for portraying Michael Kahnwald in Netflix’s Dark (2017–2020), he has also appeared in films like The English Patient (1996), Never Look Away (2018), Stalingrad (1993), and various German theater, TV, and radio productions. He was a long-time ensemble member at the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg.

Filmography

• 2027Oasis — Thomas Lang
• 2025December Evening — Detlef
• 2024Hallo Spencer - Der Film — Fred Forthmann
• 2023Piaffe — Novak
• 2022MOBY DICK; or, The Whale
• Munich Games — Michael Hahn
• 2020Hello Again - A Wedding A Day — Andreas
• Old Land — Bernhard
• 2020Pelican Blood — Dr. Zaruba
• The Wall
• 2020Tödliche Geheimnisse - Das Versprechen — Hans Remscheid
• 2019A Voluntary Year
• 2019Danowski - Blutapfel — Rüdiger Bressin
• 2019The German Lesson — Gallery owner
• 2018Am Ende ist man tot — Mc Foster
• 2018The Captain — Corporal Paul
• 2018Whatever Happens Next — Paul Zeise
• Dark — Michael Kahnwald
• 2017Götter in Weiß — Dr. Andreas Barna
• In Wahrheit — Herr Mahn
• 2016Deadly Leaks — Hans Remscheid
• 2016Original Bliss — Arzt
• 2016Overgames — Narrator (voice)
• 20154 Kings — Vater Alex
• 2014Ohnmacht — Herbert Göhden
• 2014Public Enemies — Rudolf Augstein
• Finn Zehender — Lars Döbbelin
• 2009Die Räuber
• 2009Nur für einen Augenblick
• 2008Remarque - Sein Weg zum Ruhm — Axel Eggebrecht
• Hamburg Dockland — Jan König, Mats Kurschmann
• Der Kriminalist — Peter Aschinger
• 2006Mörderische Erpressung — Ralph Jansen
• 2001Der Millionär und die Stripperin — Wolfgang
• 2000Three Wishes
• 1999Downhill City — Sascha
• 1999Duell der Richter — Horst Lesch
• 1998Der Pirat — Ludwig
• Der letzte Zeuge — Ralph Schwarzkopf
• Die Cleveren — Heiner Wagner
• Zugriff — Student
• Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP — Rüdiger Münchhoff
• 1997Coming In — Lutz
• Sophie – Schlauer als die Polizei erlaubt — Markus Amman
• Schlosshotel Orth — Enno Hallberg
• 1996The English Patient — Officer In Square
• A.S. Gefahr ist sein Geschäft — Karl Wieland
• Jury Trial — Christoph Seibel
• Der König — Dirk Walz
• 1993Stalingrad — GeGe Müller
• 1992Geboren 1999 — Karl Meiberg
• Wolffs Revier — Bernd Adler, Hans
• 1992Zärtliche Erpresserin — Daniel
• 1991Manta - Der Film — Manfred " Fred " Grabowski
• A Case For Two — Alexander Hagenbach
• The Old Fox — Christian Vondrell
• Polizeiruf 110 — Axel Dietrich
• Scene of the Crime — André Plötz, Heinrich Vogel

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2020Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence — Self (archive footage)
• MDR um 4 — Self
• 2001Hamlet: This Is Your Family — Himself