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Often casts at least one of his kids for his films.



Speaks hard to understand German.



Trivia (11)

After studying German at the university for two years to become a teacher, he attended acting lessons at a drama school in Cologne.





Turned down the role of the German soldier, who shoots Tom Hanks 's character (Captain John H. Miller) in Der Soldat James Ryan (1998) because he had reservations about the role's effect on his image at the American audience.

Lives in Berlin, Germany (2007).





First non-Polish actor who received the Best Actor Award at the Polish Film Festival (1998) for his role in Brute (1997).

After the separation from his wife Dana, he moved to Berlin (2006).



Attended acting lessons at "Der Keller" in Cologne and graduated in 1989.





Although being a box office hit in Germany, his movie Keinohrhasen (2007) wasn't nominated for a German Film Award. The reason for this was that the German Film Academy didn't accept watermarked DVDs for the jury. But Warner Bros. does not distribute copies to juries without anti-piracy measures. Thus, he angrily left the German Film Academy, but finally decided to re-enter some weeks later (2008).

He runs his own production company Barefoot Films in Berlin.



Because of Schweiger's very real disdain for all things Nazi, he accepted a role in Inglourious Basterds (in which he wears a Nazi uniform in several scenes) only after finding out that his character gets to kill Nazi soldiers throughout the film.

