David Kross (born 4 July 1990) is a German actor. He began his career at a young age with a small role in the 2002 film Hilfe, ich bin ein Junge and worked sporadically, mainly focusing on his schoolwork. In 2008, he portrayed Michael Berg in the film The Reader. For his part, he was nominated for various awards. He went on to win the Sierra Award at the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards for his work in Youth in Film. Kross has since worked in both German and English-speaking film roles, including War Horse, Race, and Into the White.

Filmography

• 2026My Best Friend, His Girlfriend and Me — Matze
• 2025Fabula — The Grape
• Parallel Me — Jonas Dunkel
• 2025The World Will Tremble — Lange
• 2024Everything's Fifty Fifty — Robin
• Friedefeld — Paul (voice)
• 2024Home Sweet Home - Where Evil Lives — Viktor
• Kafka — Max Brod
• Viktor bringt's — Sami
• Asbest — Wiktor
• Davos 1917 — Carl Mangold
• 2023The Peacock — David
• 2022A Stasi Comedy — Ludger (jung)
• 2021Confessions of Felix Krull — Louis de Venosta
• 2021Prey — Roman
• 2021The King's Man — Moustached Man
• 2020Rising High — Viktor Steiner
• 2018Balloon — Günter Wetzel
• 2018The Keeper — Bert Trautmann
• 2017Halal Daddy — Jasper
• 2017My Brother Simple — Simpel
• 2016Race — Carl "Luz" Long
• 2016The General Case — Joachim Hell
• 2016The Pasta Detectives 3 — Rainer Kiesling
• 2015Boy 7 — Sam (Boy 7)
• Paare — Patient
• 2014The Pasta Detectives — Rainer Kiesling
• 2013Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas — The Preacher
• 2013Angélique — Louis XIV
• 2012Into the White — Josef Auchtor
• 2012Measuring the World — Eugen Gauß
• 2012The Pursuit of Unhappiness — Benno
• 2011Promising the Moon — Young Osvalds Kalnins
• 2011War Horse — Gunther
• 2010Same Same But Different — Ben
• 2008Krabat — Krabat
• 2008The Reader — Young Michael Berg
• 2007Hands off Mississippi — Bäckerlehrling Bröckel
• 2006Tough Enough — Michael Polischka
• 2002Help! I'm a Boy — Paddy
• Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP
• Glenn Gould Lovers — Georg Weisman
• North Pole
• Wind of Change — Andrej

Appearances as themselves (16)

• WM Kwartira — Self
• Abendshow — Self
• Wer weiß denn sowas? — Self
• Inka! — Self
• Im Leben von … — Self
• NDR Kultur – Das Journal — Self
• Through the Night with... — Self
• Tietjen und Bommes — Self
• Morgenmagazin — Self
• Riverboat — Self
• DAS! — Self
• Romy Award — Self
• Goldene Kamera — Self
• Bavarian Film Awards — Self
• Kölner Treff — Self
• Bambi — Self