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Armin Mueller-Stahl (born December 17, 1930) is a
leading Germany|German film actor. He was born in
Tilsit, Germany, now Russia.

East Prussian-born Armin Mueller-Stahl was a noted
concert violinist while he was a teenager. He
turned to film acting in East Berlin in 1950. He
was a successful film and stage actor in East
Germany, but being blacklisted by the government
he emigrated to West Germany in 1980. His talent
found ample work in the West German film industry.
He appeared in such films as Rainer Werner
Fassbinder's Lola (1981 in film|1981) and Veronika
Voss (1982 in film|1982), and played in Andrzej
Wajda's A Love in Germany (1984 in film|1984),
Angry Harvest and Colonel Redl (both 1985 in
film|1985) (the latter about Alfred Redl).

He broadened his film career with his United
States|US film debut as Jessica Lange's father in
Music Box (1989 in film|1989), and subsequently
took strong character parts in Kafka and Night on
Earth (movie)|Night on Earth (both 1991 in
film|1991) from Jim Jarmusch.

He won the Silver Bear for Best Actor in the 1992
in film|1992 Berlinale for his performance in Utz,
and received an Academy Award|Oscar nomination for
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best
Supporting Actor for his performance in Shine
(film)|Shine (1996 in film|1996).

In the new millennium, Mueller-Stahl gained
applause for his acting of Thomas Mann in a German
historic film production about the Mann family
(Thomas Mann, his brother Heinrich Mann, and
others) called Die Manns.

In 2004, he made a rare foray onto American
television, guest-starring for four episodes on
the television drama The West Wing
(television)|The West Wing.

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