Anatole Taubman was born in Zurich, Switzerland and is of Russian-Polish-Slovakian-Austrian-and-former-East-Prussian blood. In 1991 he made his baccalauréat at the renowned Gymnasium of the Benedictine boarding school of the monastery Einsiedeln and in 1994 he graduated from the reputable drama-school 'Circle in the Square' in NYC. He's fluent in five languages (English, French, Swiss-German, German and Italian) and is also truly cosmopolitan in his work. Taubman has starred and co-starred in over 50 feature films and TV productions. Since 1998, he has been busy working and with international success in the UK, France, Germany, Switzerland and for the USA throughout Europe and beyond. Among other credits Anatole Taubman is best known for his impressive English-language TV work in Band of Brothers (HBO), Servants (BBC), POW (ITV), Spooks VI (BBC), Waking The Dead VII - Pièta (BBC) or The Tudors II (Showtime) and established himself as a fine character actor in feature films like Mein Name is Bach (CH/D), Luther (D), Marmorera (CH), Fay Grim (USA), Snipers Valley (D), Secret Défense (F), Taken / 96 Hours (F / USA) and in 2009 Pope Joan (D), Same Same But Different (D) or in Chanel & Stravinsky (F).

Filmography

• 2026111 Echoes from Halifax
• 2025Rosenthal — Elias Gleitmann
• 2024Heavier Trip — Fisto
• Asbest — Peter Stoltz
• 2023Early Birds — Thomas Roland
• 2023Wow! Message from Outer Space — Agent Silver
• 2022Gold Run — Major Otto Stoltmann
• 2022The Black Spider — Karrenmacher
• 2022The Young Chief Winnetou — Todd Crow
• Völlig meschugge?! — Jörg Fischer
• 2021Caged Birds — Peter Rothenburg
• 2021My Wonderful Wanda — Manfred
• 2020Amsterdam Undercover: Death in the harbor basin — Julian Scheer
• 2020Caught out — Albert
• 2020Harter Brocken: Die Fälscherin — Don Andrea Moretti
• 20193 Lives — Thoms
• Brecht — Ernst Josef Aufricht
• 2019Dreamfactory — Gregor Grote
• 2019Interdependence — Husband (segment "Kingdom")
• 2019Kingdom — Husband
• 2019Men in Black: International — French Salesman
• 2019Rate Your Date — Tobi
• 2019The Reformer. Zwingli: A Life's Portrait — Leo Jud
• Watchmen — Hans Osterman
• 2018Bees Make Honey — Mr. Werner
• Killing Eve — Weber
• 2018The Apparition — Anton Meyer
• 2017Bye Bye Germany — Fränkel
• Charité — Prof. Dr. Mitja Rapoport
• Dark — Bernd Doppler
• Decline and Fall — Otto
• 2017Einen Moment fürs Leben
• Professor T. — Norbert Poll
• 2016Ferien — Dr. Ossowski
• Der Bozen Krimi — Luca Rizzi
• 2015Luis Trenker - Der schmale Grat der Wahrheit — Paul Kohner
• 2015Nussknacker und Mausekönig — Anselmus Drosselmeier
• 2015Sweet September — Frank
• 2015The Transporter Refueled — Stanislas Turgin
• Versailles — Montcourt
• 2014Inspektor Jury - Der Tote im Pub — Marshall Trueblood
• 2014Northmen: A Viking Saga — Bovarr
• 2014The Circle — Felix Schupp
• 2014The Grüninger File — Sidney Dreifuss
• 2014Therapy for a Vampire — Ignaz
• 2013Frau Ella — Rudolph
• 2013Lost Place — Falk Geisinger
• 2013Operation Zucker — Uwe Hansen
• 2013Tempo Girl — Andreas Orlow
• 2013The Fifth Estate — Holger Stark
• 2012Famous Five — Agent Peter Turner
• 2012Sechzehneichen — Ansgar
• 2011Captain America: The First Avenger — Roeder
• 2011Largo Winch II — Beaumont
• 2011Lisas Fluch — Frank Schneider
• 2011Resistance — Sebald
• 2010Same Same But Different — Hotelmanager
• The Pillars of the Earth — Remigius
• 2009Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky — Arthur 'Boy' Capel
• 2009Pope Joan — Anastasius
• Homicide Unit Istanbul — Tarkan
• Ihr Auftrag, Pater Castell — Dr. Jens Deißmann
• 2008Quantum of Solace — Elvis
• 2008Secrets of State — Daniel
• 2008Speed Racer — Fuji Reporter
• 2008Taken — Dardan
• 2007Blood and Chocolate — Bartender
• 2007Fay Grim — Jallal
• 2007Marmorera — Simon Cavegn
• 2007Snipers Valley — Enver
• The Tudors — Jean Rombaud
• 2007To Make Sure? — Constantine George
• 2006Aphrodites Nacht — Hans
• Der Kriminalist — Roland Falkenberg
• 2006Grimm Love — Eager Man
• 2005Anjas Engel — Philippe "Speedy" Scherrer
• 2005Steinschlag — Herbert von Allmen
• 2005Æon Flux — Sasha Prillo's Father
• Hex — Archangel Raphael
• 2004My Name Is Bach — Friedemann Bach
• 2004Transport
• 2003Luther — Otto
• 2003Moritz — Andi Moser
• Nachtschicht — Holm Brülls
• P.O.W.
• Das Duo — Malte Hok, Malte Holk
• 2002Equilibrium — Crematory Technician
• Foyle's War — Raimund Weiser
• Inspektor Rolle — Daniel Thoma
• 2002Mortal Beauty - Fluch der Schönheit — Valdez De Corazón
• Spooks — Fernando Torres
• 2002Todeslust — Alexander Mensing
• Band of Brothers — Otto Herzfeld
• 2001Be.Angeled — Aaron
• Leipzig Homicide — Marcello
• Waking the Dead — Stevan Steznovic
• Der Puma - Kämpfer mit Herz — Horst Prenzel
• Donna Leon — Roberto 'Roberta' Canale
• 2000Mein absolutes Lieblingslied
• Victor - Der Schutzengel — Roy
• 1999Die Braut — Marschall Michel Ney
• The Peppercorns — Paolo
• Die Cleveren — Markus Jacob
• 1998Drei Tage Angst
• Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police — Henk van Bergen
• Für alle Fälle Stefanie — Hans Troll
• Doppelter Einsatz — Markus
• Wolffs Revier — David, Erik Hebron
• Die Männer vom K3 — Kellner
• The Old Fox — Ansgar Groll
• Polizeiruf 110 — Marco Giacomello
• Scene of the Crime — Olaf Böhm, Dreyfuss
• Red Flags — Markus

Appearances as themselves (7)

• Persönlich — Self
• Sykora Gisler – Der Fussball-Talk — Self
• MDR um 4 — Self
• Aeschbacher — Self
• Leute heute — Self
• DAS! — Self
• 3 nach 9 — Self