looks hard but inside is a pushover our number ten year old. for those. who are. coming up misses. his gap toothed charm is the antidote to hollywood's surgically enhanced superstars. in cinema. and on a person's income so he quote. ashton plan touted as much of the kind of steps he could just he's not above mocking his own image rather than. in the film acting it out from early in his career full play the man who mistakenly walks into an improv addition for an acting school. coach actually i am just as modest as occasion marches shy thing it's what to play and my right side how to react i want to say it's as if i was with these astute sort of things as i stood watching trash and. thanks to focal suddenly a whole generation. could see itself up on the screen sort of alzheimer's full himself never went to acting school his approach is visceral and instinctive help usher in a whole new era of relaxed realistic performance in german film. the number nine is a phenomenon directors like oscar. and lars von trier love him he can do trash and our house in short he's a legend. like many germans in hollywood has made a living playing creek pirates being a particular specialty. but even when playing the nazi it's always with a twinkle in his eye here still doesn't consider hollywood home. stephen east in holland i don't live in hollywood hollywood because hollywood is arnold schwarzenegger at the gym and joan collins drinking so i can see the hollywood sign from my house and i know exactly why i'm here when i'm drinking my coffee and playing up the. project allow is the youngest actor in our top ten. he's best known for his role in the tori where he plays a lovable german thought tearing through berlin's night life with a spanish tourist and. like. it was a role wow true berliner was born to play a tough guy with a big heart. it's a good thing. it's just tori it gets under your skin and fredricka one germany's version of the oscar for his performance. i. hold it that's a protocol again on the face would be somewhat of the guy next to him that. most of the shelling is the coolest member of a new generation of young german actors who specialize in laconic and sexy his best role to date playing a slacker killing time in the big city which was. never a test which is why you get to be. consistent in the scope of the scene mentionable know if you've never been on the scene of the nothing stand and that he didn't include this place has become nuns on the swings it's just this deep thinker in our number seven. and my she would. help us deal got his first big role when he was still acting school at one of best actor at the german film awards. so i said how do comics you don't know me. but i mean they're going to end up going to get together but the truth is that think it's a click on the i'm something to. deal place a paranoid computer programmer who sees danger everywhere this is deep you react to his truth. the really extreme scenes are easier because you know what direction they'll go in the quiet smaller scenes are much more difficult because they could go anywhere. from a master playing broken men most men pushed to the brink steele has left his mark. it will. too. no list of german actors will be complete without our next entry he was the wild man of german set about proof that genius and madness sometimes go hand in hand love him or hate him he's our number five the. doctor is going to show me the next time i expect to go out and angry always angry at me that was close can skate on screen and in real life which it wasn't even if it was when i got an email my best. was legendary playing how did characters driven by a mad passion. in real life he was a monster to make use of abusing his own daughter for several years he died for it out eight sixty five in california. peter laurel will go down in cinema history as the child murderer with the googly eyes he set the template for german actors to play dark monstrous characters in the . trafficking and human. with you got to. lure emigrated to the u.s. in the one nine hundred thirty s. and acted in several hollywood films including casablanca he became a minor celebrity. lives are going to return to this you're not going to hear from somebody die for him alone in los angeles in one nine hundred sixty four. the next actor is also an international star but he's about as different from creepy peter laurel as you can get crazy bug eyed psychopath sweet faced boy next door the recently this actor has dropped his nice guy act. as he's come it's going to go. it's the kind of activity and comments guys come to despise and the causes and find the tools are mental the instancing because in fact i'm so much like. jesus has an actor and a man has many faces he's half german half spanish and he's played everything from a slimy our journalist in the satire me in kaminski to see just clips of him saying hi stephen to me to how. to on a row of freedom fighters in chile in the one nine hundred sixty s. in the political thriller colonia dignidad. to his best role to date as a legendary austrian racecar driver niki lauda in ron howard's drama rushed. forty two days off to use a new speed limits nikita released yesterday. he starred as a sweet faced young boy but fans now know don't know who has a doctor so. these days no i mean spends most of his time painting and writing but he remains an acting icon he's been a star in greece and west germany as well as hollywood hello oh you. know i want to proclaim. it coming to his international break through playing helmet hapless new york cab driver he is sitting there see this you know man the artist at the height what does it have the height but the height whatever the role play is as a forever amazed by the wonders this world has to offer it sounds good fresh. what you do it for you know you feeling ok. i was a circus. it took thirty years for our next actor to become an overnight success when an american director recognized his talent and made him a star but there are some of us were fans from the get go he has an image of old style precise subtle ironic that makes him irresistible and he's our number one. the stuff of this is the only german to have won two acting oscars and both with the same director. i always wanted to discover some new continent and i thought i had to go this way and then i was introduced to current in time t. no may i smoke pipes the rest is history the journeyman actor became the hollywood star no one is better mixing charm with sadism my job. dictates. that it was time i made it into your home. for search before i can officially cross your family's name off my list. charm conceal the brutality just below the surface nice nazi telecom in carnage plays an unprincipled corporate lawyer carrying a stick or carrying yeah yeah yeah undesirable side effects basically look like you can. see those. tattoos or maybe the hell are we doing here i hope you're kidding yeah you know what ok. and of course the perfect bon babbage you come. to me. and i thought you came here to die thank you christoph waltz our german actor number one cool that was our top ten list of best german actors hope your favorites made the cut you can write to us with your personal pics or just to complain about our selection also go online to see our other keno favorites that's all for this week's show until next week at the movies . you. steady and. down detroit on the southeast coast and if you. feel there is practical going fully upgrading to twenty successful years the fourth generation ford focus has been on paying. he turns small toys into the big picture. for you so when we take a sneak peek at the photography studio. an exclusive inside of you is how a man plays with al perception. of your robotics sixty minutes on d w. i've the time it was a symbolist please. somebody was my hero but it was also nearly everybody around the world was named stoops and hope. she inspires me to stick. 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