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Udo Kier
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Udo Kier (born Udo Kierspe on October 14, 1944) is a German actor.
Contents
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 Early life
- 1.2 Career
- 2 Filmography
- 3 External links
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Biography
Early life
Kier was born in Cologne, Germany. The hospital where he was born was bombed moments after his birth. His father was absent during most of his childhood. Kier moved to Britain at the age of eighteen, in 1962.
Career
Kier began his acting career as a protégé of film director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who was also his lover. He has starred in many
vampire movies, such as
Blood for Dracula, produced by
Andy Warhol and directed by
Paul Morrissey (
1974),
Blade (1998) and
Shadow of the Vampire (
2000), both as vampire and human. He has also starred in all of
Lars von Trier's movies since 1987's
Epidemic (the only exception being
The Idiots), and is the godfather of Trier's daughter Agnes.
Well known mainstream film appearances were as 'Curly' (while bald) in the Pamela Anderson vehicle, 'Barb Wire', and as an extremely cynical NASA flight surgeon in Jerry Bruckheimer's all-action blockbuster Armageddon who finds himself subjected to the rambunctious behavior of the flight crew he's supposed to psychoanalyze. He also frequently worked with director Christoph Schlingensief.
Kier also made an appearance in popstar Madonna's 1992 coffee table book, "Sex", as well as the video for her disco hit "Deeper and Deeper" from the album "Erotica." Kier appeared in Korn's music video Make Me Bad alongside Brigitte Nielsen , as a military "scientist" conducting bizarre experiments on his "patients" (the band members). He is described in the "making of" of this video as having "fucked-up eyes but he's funny as shit", by Korn's frontman Jonathan Davis.
He also starred as
Yuri in
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 and its expansion,
Yuri's Revenge. He was the subject of a seven-record series by a band called Half Eye: The seven records spelled out his name, U.D.O. K.I.E.R.
Filmography
