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Tom Wlaschiha
Tom Wlaschiha
	Wlaschiha in 2013
Born	Thomas Wlaschiha; Dohna, Bezirk Dresden, East Germany
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1995–present

Thomas Wlaschiha is a German actor. Internationally, he is known for his roles as Jaqen H'ghar in the second, fifth and sixth seasons of the TV series Game of Thrones,^[1]^[2] as well as Sebastian Berger in the police procedural Crossing Lines. He also appeared in four episodes of Jack Ryan as Max Schenkel. He plays Dmitri Antonov / "Enzo" in the fourth season of Stranger Things.

Early life and education

Wlaschiha was born in Dohna, Bezirk Dresden. When he was 17 years old, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he travelled to the United States as an exchange student. He remained there for a year, acting in theater and studying English.^[3]

Career

Since 1998, he has played mostly supporting roles in numerous German and international TV and film productions. In his first leading role he portrayed Stephan in the 2000 gay milieu study No One Sleeps.^[4]

On stage, Wlaschiha has performed with the Theater Junge Generation (Young Generation) in Dresden from 1996 until 2000, with the Schauspielhaus Zürich in 2002, and with the Schauspiel Frankfurt in 2003.^{[citation needed]}

In August 2011, he was cast as the convict and assassin Jaqen H'ghar in season 2 of the HBO fantasy TV series Game of Thrones,^[5] and reprised his role in seasons 5 and 6, starting in 2015. For his performance in Game of Thrones he was nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series by the Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2016.^{[citation needed]}

From 2013 to 2015, he starred in the crime series Crossing Lines as Kommissar Sebastian Berger, a German police officer.^{[citation needed]}

Wlaschiha portrayed the Gestapo inspector Hagan Forster in the 2018 television series Das Boot, and subsequently in the second and third series.^[6]

As a voice actor, Wlaschiha is heard in film dubs, audiobooks, and commercials. For some of his international work (e.g., Game of Thrones), Wlaschiha dubs himself in German.^[2] He voiced Buzz Lightyear in the German dub of Lightyear.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Wlaschiha also speaks French, Italian, and Russian.^{[citation needed]}

Baritone singer Ekkehard Wlaschiha was his uncle.^[7]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Ich wünsch Dir Liebe	Nachbar	Television film
2000	No One Sleeps	Stefan Hein
2001	Enemy at the Gates	Soldier
2001	Rent a Baby [de]	Oliver	Television film
2002	Alibis for Sale	Stefan	Television film
2003	Fast perfekt verlobt	Nikas Kollege	Television film
2004	Pura vida Ibiza	Felix
2004	Die Stunde der Offiziere	Hauptmann Axel von dem Bussche	Television film documentary
2004	Rock Crystal [de]	Schafhirt Philipp
2005	Icon	Mercedes Driver	Television film
2005	Munich	News Crew at Fürstenfeldbruck
2006	16 Blocks	Bus Passenger
2006	The Cloud	Hannes
2007	My Little Boy	Wolfgang	Short film
2007	Fürchte dich nicht	Lt. Falk	Television film
2008	Ship of No Return: The Final Voyage of the Gustloff [de]	Bootsmann	Television film
	Brideshead Revisited	Kurt
	Krabat	Hanzo
	Valkyrie	Communications Officer
2011	Christopher and His Kind	Gerhardt Neddermayer	Television film
	Who's Watching Who	Thomas	Short film
	Stilles Tal	Olli Reschke
	Anonymous	Captain of the Guard (uncredited)
	Resistance	Albrecht
2012	Freshly Squeezed [de]	Chris
2012	A Small Thing [de]	Moritz Blank	Television film
2013	Ohne Gnade!	Baboo
2013	Rush	Harald Ertl
2014	Mr. Turner	Prince Albert
2017	Eltern und andere Wahrheiten	Torsten Pfeffer	Television film
	Berlin Falling	Andreas
	Dobermann	Siras	Short film
2018	I krig & kærlighed	Gerhard
2019	Saturday Fiction	Saul Speyer
2020	Rose Island	Wolfgang Rudy Neumann
2022	Lightyear	Buzz Lightyear	German Dub
2020	Escape to the Sea	Karl	Television film
2025	Yunan		Premiere at 75th Berlin International Film Festival in February.^[8]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall	Koschi	Episode 1.1: "Stubbes Erbschaft"
1996	Max Wolkenstein	Kai	Episode 1.5: "Verbotene Liebe"
1997	Mama ist unmöglich	Rico	Episode 1.7: "Mama ahoi!"
1998	Der Fahnder	Dieter Feldberg	Episode 8.5: "Direkt ins Herz"
2000	Die Cleveren	Jochen	Episode 2.2: "Der Rosenkavalier"
2000	Tatort	Lars Kante	Episode: "Das letzte Rodeo"
2000–2004	Die Rettungsflieger	Feldwebel Torsten Biedenstedt	14 episodes
2003	Die Sitte	Bernd Horsten	Episode 1.2: "Auf gute Nachbarschaft"
	Unser Charly	Richy	Episode 8.2: "Charly sieht alles"
	Im Namen des Gesetzes	Tobias Ording	Episode 3.8: "Todesspiel"
	Küstenwache	Felix Kemper	Episode 6.12: "Entführung auf See"
	Hallo Robbie!	Horst	Episode 3.1: "In letzter Sekunde"
2004	Ein Fall für zwei		Episode 24.2: "Mord aus Liebe"
2004, 2007, 2012	In aller Freundschaft	Dr. Daniel Lohmann (season 7 & 9) / Julian Tessner (season 14; uncredited)	4 episodes
2006	Unter den Linden – Das Haus Gravenhorst	Hermann Pikeweit	13 episodes
	SOKO Wismar	Jens Holling	Episode 3.8: "Halbe Volte"
	Zwei Engel für Amor	Sebastian / Mann (uncredited)	3 episodes
2007	GSG 9 – Ihr Einsatz ist ihr Leben	Wetting	Episode 1.9: "Abgewiesen"
2007	Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei	Nick Weiss	Episode 22.6: "Stunde der Wahrheit"
2008	Die Gustloff	Bootsmann
	Spoons
	Unschuldig	Endres	Episode 1.9: "Große Fische"
Die Patin – Kein Weg zurück	Lew
2009	Wilsberg	Stefan Wehnert	Episode 1.26: "Der Mann am Fenster"
	Eine für alle – Frauen können's besser	Sebastian Vollenbrinck	19 episodes
	Ihr Auftrag, Pater Castell	Thomas Welz	Episode 2.2: "Der Schatz des Kaufmanns"
2010	Der letzte Bulle	Markus Breckwoldt	Episode 1.2: "Überlebenstraining"
	The Deep	Arkady	4 episodes
	The Sarah Jane Adventures	Lt. Koenig	Episodes 4.9 and 4.10: "Lost in Time"
2011	Stuttgart Homicide	Benedikt Fahl	Episode 3.9: "Lavendeltod"
2012	Leipzig Homicide		Episode 11.12: "Junggesellinnenabschied"
2012; 2015–2016	Game of Thrones	Jaqen H'ghar	Recurring (season 2), main role (seasons 5–6); 17 episodes
2013–2015	Crossing Lines	Sebastian Berger	34 episodes
2013	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Schwartz	Episode 13.4: "The Labours of Hercules"
2014	Borgia	Philip of Habsburg	Episode 3.13: "1506"
2015	Tatort	Thorsten Rausch	Episode: "Borowski und die Kinder von Gaarden"
2017	Maigret	Carl Andersen	Episode 2.1: "Maigret's Night at the Crossroads"
	Schuld nach Ferdinand von Schirach	Kommissar Weinhauer	Episode 2.2: "Anatomie"
	Dengler	Marius Brauer	Episode 1.3: "Die schützende Hand"
2018	Das Boot	Hagen Forster	19 episodes
2019	Thanks for the Memories	Justin Beckmann	2 episodes
2019	Jack Ryan	Max Schenkel	4 episodes^[9]
2022	Stranger Things	Dmitri "Enzo" Antonov	Recurring (season 4); 8 episodes
2022	Dangerous Liaisons	Henri de Montrachet	Recurring; 3 episodes
2023	Mrs. Davis	Hans Ziegler	Recurring; 5 episodes

Theatre

Year	Play	Role	Venue
1993	Saved	Fred	Schauspiel Leipzig
Year Unknown	Volpore	Voltore	Schauspiel Leipzig
1999	Drei Schwestern	Tusenbach	tjg, Dresden
1999	Bluthochzeit	The Bridegroom	tjg, Dresden
2000	Faust ist tot	Donny	TiF, Dresden
2001	Tartuffe (Molière)	Valère	Mecklenburg State Theatre, Schwerin
2001	Engel der Tankstelle	Marshall	Volksbühne, Berlin
2003	Heinrich IV	Mortimer	Schauspielhaus Zürich
2003	Klinik	Markus	Schauspielhaus Zürich
2005	Maria Magdalena (Hebbel)	Secretary	Schauspiel Frankfurt
2006	231 East 47th Street	Andy Warhol	Sophiensæle, Berlin
2007	Das ist mein Bett (Franckh)	Phillip	Wechselbad, Dresden
2007	Der Freigeist (Schmitt)	Denis Diderot	Wechselbad, Dresden
2008	Frühling (Léhar)	Ewald	Volksbühne, Berlin
2009	Salome	Maraboth	Staatstheater Stuttgart

References

^ Robinson, Joanna (8 March 2015). "A Season 2 Game of Thrones Favorite Will Make a Surprise Return This Year". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Game of Thrones – Das Lied von Eis und Feuer" (in German). Deutsche Synchronkartei. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
^ Zander, Peter (22 August 2012). "Tom Wlaschiha und die großen Rollen" [Tom Wlaschiha And the Great Roles] (in German). Berliner Morgenpost. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
^ "Tom Wlaschiha – Arbeitstier mit Reisedefizit". Monsters and Critics. September 2008. Archived from the original on 2 October 2011. Retrieved 3 August 2011.
^ Hibberd, James (3 August 2011). "'Game of Thrones' casts assassin Jaqen". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
^ Hale, Mike (16 June 2019). "Review: Rebooting 'Das Boot' on Land And Sea". New York Times. Archived from the original on 24 July 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
^ "Deutscher "Game of Thrones"-Star trauert um seinen Onkel". TAG24 (in German). 23 February 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
^ Ameer Fakher Eldin (21 January 2025). "Yunan". Cineuropa. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
^ "Die deutsche Stimme von Buzz Lightyear". stern.de (in German). 26 April 2022. Retrieved 30 April 2022.

External links

Tom Wlaschiha at IMDb

[vanityfairTomWlaschiha-1] Robinson, Joanna (8 March 2015). "A Season 2 Game of Thrones Favorite Will Make a Surprise Return This Year". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 9 March 2015.

[deutschesy-2] "Game of Thrones – Das Lied von Eis und Feuer" (in German). Deutsche Synchronkartei. Retrieved 22 July 2015.

[A-3] Zander, Peter (22 August 2012). "Tom Wlaschiha und die großen Rollen" [Tom Wlaschiha And the Great Roles] (in German). Berliner Morgenpost. Retrieved 16 December 2012.

[monstersandcritics.de-4] "Tom Wlaschiha – Arbeitstier mit Reisedefizit". Monsters and Critics. September 2008. Archived from the original on 2 October 2011. Retrieved 3 August 2011.

[EW.com-5] Hibberd, James (3 August 2011). "'Game of Thrones' casts assassin Jaqen". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 23 November 2019.

[6] Hale, Mike (16 June 2019). "Review: Rebooting 'Das Boot' on Land And Sea". New York Times. Archived from the original on 24 July 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2020.

[7] "Deutscher "Game of Thrones"-Star trauert um seinen Onkel". TAG24 (in German). 23 February 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2022.

[8] Ameer Fakher Eldin (21 January 2025). "Yunan". Cineuropa. Retrieved 25 January 2025.

[:0-9] "Die deutsche Stimme von Buzz Lightyear". stern.de (in German). 26 April 2022. Retrieved 30 April 2022.

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