Mathieu Carrière born August 2 1950 in Hanover Germany is a German actor Carrière grew up in Berlin and Lübeck he attended the Jesuit boarding school Lycée SaintFrançoisXavier in Vannes France a school which had previously been attended by the director of Carrières first major film Volker Schlöndorff In 1969 Carrière moved to Paris to study philosophy and continue his acting Carrière is also a director and a writer and is known to fight for the rights of fathers His sister Mareike Carrière is also a well known actor After playing the young Tonio at the age of 13 in Rolf Thieles 1964 film Tonio Kröger he played a main part in the 1966 German movie Der junge Törless Young Törless In 1980 he was a member of the jury at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival Description above from the Wikipedia article Mathieu Carrière licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia