Dominik Tiefenthaler

Dominik Tiefenthaler

Dominik Tiefenthaler
Born 1971 (age 44–45)
Kreuzlingen, Switzerland
Residence Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York
Nationality Austrian-German
Occupation Actor
Years active 2003 - present
Relatives Meinrad Tiefenthaler (grandfather)

Dominik Tiefenthaler (German pronunciation: [dɔmɪnɪk tiːfəntaːlɐ]) (born 1971) is an Austro-German actor, mainly working in American TV and films. His work includes Gossip Girl,[1] The Good Wife,[2] Person of Interest,[3] Blue Bloods,[4] The Blacklist,[5] Boardwalk Empire,[6] and the dramatic films Maybe Tomorrow[7] and The Projectionist.[8] He has also done voice-over projects, including Grand Theft Auto IV and Wolfenstein: The New Order.[9]

Biography

Dominik Tiefenthaler was born in Switzerland, to an Austrian father and a German mother. He grew up in Kreuzlingen, a small town near Zurich, with his four sisters and one brother. He enrolled in the Medical School of the University Zurich, and after receiving his MD Degree worked for two years in the Neurosurgical Department of the Cantonal Hospital in St. Gallen, Switzerland. He move to New York City in 2000, studied acting with William Esper and John Dapolito, and voice and speech with Shane Ann Younts.[10] In the spring of 2004, he co-founded the Incumbo Theater Company in New York City, but left the group after two years to focus on a career in film and television.[11]

Tiefenthaler is the grandson of the Austrian historian and archivist Meinrad Tiefenthaler. Once married, now divorced, he lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.[10]

Film and television

In 2010, Tiefenthaler portrayed Swiss detective Yan Glassey, the lead investigator of the infamous Pink Panthers, an international gang of jewelery thieves[12], in an episode of America's Most Wanted.

After shooting the film Lenßen-Der Film,[13] for the German TV station Sat.1 (primetime television premiere on January 8, 2011),[14] Tiefenthaler returned to the United States to shoot Gossip Girl, where he played Lucien, the royal liaison to Louis Grimaldi.[1]

In the following years, he played mostly guest-star characters, among them on CBS's The Good Wife ("Je Ne Sais What?"),[2] Person of Interest ("Relevance"),[3] Blue Bloods ("Worst Case Scenario"),[4] and NYC 22 ("Self Cleaning Oven"),[15] NBC's The Blacklist ("The Good Samaritan"),[5] abc's Zero Hour ("Chain") (opposite Anthony Edwards),[16] and HBO's Boardwalk Empire ("All In").[6]

In 2014, Tiefenthaler was seen in three film projects: Guillaume Canet's 1970s crime drama Blood Ties,[17] The Projectionist (a thriller about PTSD), and Maybe Tomorrow,[18] for which he won Best Supporting Actor at the "Golden Door International Film Festival".[19]

In March 2016, it was announced that Tiefenthaler was cast as Detective Walti Merian, in the new eight-part British drama Paranoid. The series was commissioned by ITV and produced by StudioCanal’s British production company Red Production Company.[20][21] Netflix will serve as a co-producer on the series, and will stream the series worldwide outside the UK.[22]


Filmography

Film

Year Film Role Notes
2014 The Projectionist Tom Nicks
2014 Blood Ties Ruby Bartender
2012 Maybe Tomorrow Graham Seifert Best Supporting Actor
2011 Lenßen - Der Film Markus Berger SAT1
Decent Men Heinrich Himmler Short film
2010 Wonder... Doctor
2009 Born from the Foot Andy
2008 After Hiroshima Mon Amour... Actor Short film
2007 The Triangle Actor Short film
2006 Posttags Pvt. Cole Pullman
2005 Street Therapy Flower Guy Short film

TV

Year Show Role Company Notes
2016 Paranoid Walti Merian ITV/Netflix Eight Part Drama Series
2015 Blue Bloods Nicholas Costa CBS Season 6, Episode 1: "Worst Case Scenario"
2014 The Blacklist Fyodor NBC Season 1, Episode 6: "The Good Samaritan"
2013 Boardwalk Empire Rudy HBO Season 4, Episode 4: "All In"
Zero Hour Adam the Groundsman ABC Season 1, Episode 4: "Chain"
Person of Interest Berlin Police Man CBS Season 2, Episode 16: "Relevance"
The Good Wife Dedrick Klein CBS Season 4, Episode 12: "Je Ne Sais What?"
2012 NYC 22 Martinus Novak CBS Season 1, Episode 5: "Self Cleaning Oven"
2011 Gossip Girl Lucien CW Season 4, Episode 19: Petty in Pink
2010 America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back Detective Yan Glassey FOX Episode: "The Pink Panthers"
2003 Resident Life Resident TLC TV miniseries

Video games

Year Show Role
2014 Wolfenstein: The New Order Enemy Soldier
2008 Grand Theft Auto IV Coke Addict

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