Dominik Tiefenthaler () (born 1971) is an Austrian-

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actor, mainly working in American TV and films. His work includes ''

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'',"Gossip Girl, "Petty In Pink""
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'',"The Good Wife, "Je ne say what?""
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'',"The Blacklist, "The Good Samaritan""
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ShareTV and the dramatic films '' Maybe Tomorrow'' and '' An Act of War''. He has also done voice-over projects, including ''

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'' and '' Wolfenstein: The New Order''.

Biography

Dominik Tiefenthaler was born in

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, to an

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n father and a

mother. He grew up in

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, a small town near

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, with his four sisters and one brother. He enrolled in the Medical School of the University Zurich, and after receiving his MD Degree worked for two years in the Neurosurgical Department of the Cantonal Hospital in St. Gallen, Switzerland. He moved to New York City in 2000, studied acting with William Esper and John Dapolito, and voice and speech with Shane Ann Younts. In the spring of 2004, he co-founded the Incumbo Theater Company in New York City, but left the group after two years to focus on a career in film and television. Tiefenthaler is the grandson of the Austrian historian and archivist Meinrad Tiefenthaler. Once married, now divorced, he lives on the

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Theatre

In 2018, Tiefenthaler played the role of the Janitor in ''The Lehman Trilogy'' at the Lyttelton Theatre of the

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. The production starred

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and

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and was directed by

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. Tiefenthaler also understudied the role of Emanuel Lehman (played by Ben Miles). In August 2019, after ''The Lehman Trilogy'' had moved to the

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in the London West End, Tiefenthaler took over the role of Emanuel from Ben Miles and finished the last four weeks of the run alongside Simon Russell Beale and Adam Godley.

Film and television

In 2010, Tiefenthaler portrayed Swiss detective Yan Glassey, the lead investigator of the infamous Pink Panthers, an international gang of jewelry thieves, in an episode of ''

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''. After shooting the film ', for the German TV station Sat.1 (primetime television premiere on January 8, 2011), Tiefenthaler returned to the United States to shoot ''

'', where he played ''Lucien'', the royal liaison to ''Louis Grimaldi''. In the following years, he played mostly guest-star characters, among them on

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's ''

'' ("Je Ne Sais What?"), ''

'' ("Relevance"), ''

'' ("Worst Case Scenario"), and ''

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'' ("Self Cleaning Oven"),

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's ''

'' ("The Good Samaritan"),

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's '' Zero Hour'' ("Chain") (opposite Anthony Edwards), and

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's ''

'' ("All In"). In 2014, Tiefenthaler was seen in three film projects:

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's 1970s crime drama ''Blood Ties'', ''The Projectionist'' (a thriller about

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), and '' Maybe Tomorrow'', for which he won ''Best Supporting Actor'' at the "Golden Door International Film Festival". In March 2016, it was announced that Tiefenthaler was cast as Detective Walti Merian, in the new eight-part British drama ''

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''. The series was commissioned by ITV and produced by

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's British production company

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will serve as a co-producer on the series, and will stream the series worldwide outside the UK. Tiefenthaler guest-starred as Swiss police captain Dante Graf in the first season's third episode of CBS's '' FBI: International'' ("Secrets as Weapons") in October 2021."FBI: International, "Secrets as Weapons""
Spoiler TV In 2024, Tiefenthaler was cast as

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in the upcoming British television drama series ''Lockerbie'', commissioned by

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