Thomas Wlaschiha (born 20 June 1973) 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'', as well as Sebastian Berger in the TV series ''

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''. He also appeared in four episodes of ''Jack Ryan''. He plays Dmitri Antonov / "Enzo" in the fourth season of '' Stranger Things''.

Biography

Wlaschiha was born in

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. When he was 17 years old, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he travelled to

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, United States, as an exchange student. He remained there for a year, acting in theater and studying English. He also speaks French, Italian and Russian. 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''. On stage, Wlaschiha has performed with the Theater ''Junge Generation'' (''Young Generation'') in Dresden from 1996 until 2000, with the

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in 2002, and with the

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in 2003. In August 2011, he was cast as the

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and

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Jaqen H'ghar in season 2 of the HBO fantasy TV series '' Game of Thrones'', 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

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. From 2013 to 2015, he starred in the crime series ''

'' as Kommissar Sebastian Berger, a German police officer. As a voice actor, Wlaschiha is heard in film dubs,

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s and commercials. For some of his international work (e.g., ''Game of Thrones''), Wlaschiha dubs himself in German. He voiced

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in the German dub of '' Lightyear''. Baritone

Ekkehard Wlaschiha Ekkehard Wlaschiha (; 28 May 1938 – 20 February 2019) was a German operatic baritone who specialized in Wagnerian "villains", such as Alberich, Klingsor and Friedrich von Telramund. He performed at the Bayreuth Festival and at the Metropolita ...

was his uncle.

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wlaschiha, Thomas 1973 births Living people Audiobook narrators German male film actors German people of Czech descent German male stage actors German male television actors German male voice actors Male Shakespearean actors People from Bezirk Dresden People from Dohna University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni 20th-century German male actors 21st-century German male actors