About Lars Eidinger
Lars Eidinger (German: [laʁs ˈaɪ̯dɪŋɐ]; born 21 January 1976) is a German actor and rapper, based in Berlin. He has appeared in German and international film and television productions, including the 2020 film My Little Sister, the German series Babylon Berlin (2017–2022), the 2023 American miniseries All the Light We Cannot See, and the 2024 film Dying. == Early life and education == Lars Eidinger was born in 1975 or 1976 to an engineer and a nurse, and grew up with his older brother in West Berlin's Marienfelde district. He is a graduate of the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts, where he studied alongside Fritzi Haberlandt, Nina Hoss, Devid Striesow, and Mark Waschke. == Career == === Theatre === Eidinger started his career at Deutsches Theater in 1997. He became a salaried member of the Schaubühne ensemble in 1999 in Berlin, with leading roles in Thomas Ostermeier productions such as Hamlet and Richard III. He said that a significant moment in his career came while performing in a production of Troilus and Cressida directed by James Macdonald in 2005, when Macdonald told him to focus on "the words, just the words". It was not until he was rehearsing the "To be, or not to be" soliloquy for a production of Hamlet in 2008 that the meaning sunk in. The role of Hamlet is his favourite one, and in 2015 he estimated that over six years, he had played the role 250 times. Eidinger has performed on stage in Australia several times: at the 2006 Adelaide Festival in a Schaubühne production of Nora (director Ostermeier's transformation of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House); in 2010, in Schaubühne's production of Hamlet for the Sydney Festival; and again to Adelaide in 2017. In 2016, Ostermeier's Schaubühne production of Richard III was staged at the Edinburgh Festival, with Eidinger's performance described as "a mesmerising Richard – played like a seductive rock star gone to seed" by British theatre critic Lyn Gardner.
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