Sylvester Groth
German actor and tenor

Sylvester Groth

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German actor and tenor
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31 March 1958(Jerichow, Jerichower Land, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)
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Sylvester Groth (born 31 March 1958) is a German film actor and tenor.

He is best known to English language audiences for appearing in Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, in which he portrayed Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels. He also appears in the opening scene of the third season of Fargo.

His first major film role was in 1993's Stalingrad. Groth portrayed Goebbels in the 2007 German film Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler, directed by Dani Levy.

Selected filmography

  • Fargo (2017, episode: "The Law of Vacant Places")
  • In Times of Fading Light (2017)
  • Naked Among Wolves (Film, 2015)
  • Deutschland 83 (TV series, 2015)
  • The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
  • Sense8 (Netflix series, 2015)
  • Generation War (TV miniseries, 2013)
  • KDD – Kriminaldauerdienst (TV series, 2010)
  • Inglourious Basterds (2009)
  • Hilde (TV film, 2009)
  • Buddenbrooks (2008)
  • The Reader (2008)
  • My Führer – The Really Truest Truth about Adolf Hitler (2007)
  • The Third Wave (2003)
  • Stalingrad (1993)
  • The Last U-Boat (TV film, 1992)
  • Momo (1986)
  • The House on the River (1986)
  • Der Schimmelreiter (TV film, 1984)
  • The Turning Point (1983)
  • Meines Vaters Straßenbahn (1980)