Alexander Fehling

Alexander Fehling (born 29 March 1981) is a German film and stage actor. He is best known for portraying Master Sgt. Wilhelm in the 2009 Quentin Tarantino World War II film Inglourious Basterds and Jonas Hollander in the Showtime original series Homeland as the boyfriend of Claire Danes's character Carrie Mathison.

Life and career
Fehling was born in East Berlin, East Germany. He studied acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts from 2003 until 2007.

He received the Förderpreis Deutscher Film award in the Actor category for his portrayal of Sven Lehnert in the 2006 film, And Along Come Tourists. He previously won the OE Hasse Prize from the Akademie der Künste, Berlin for his role as Prince in the theater production of Schneewittchen (Snow White).

Fehling is best known to English-speaking audiences for his role as German Master Sgt. Wilhelm in Quentin Tarantino's World War II 2009 film Inglourious Basterds. Fehling is incorrectly referred to as a Staff Sgt by the English captions. Fehling also dubs his performance in the German version of the film.

Fehling appeared as a series regular in the fifth season of the Showtime original series Homeland, which began airing in October 2015. He played Jonas Hollander, a legal counsel for the Düring Foundation and boyfriend of Claire Danes's character Carrie Mathison.

Awards

 * 2005: The O.E. Hasse-Preis of the Akademie der Künste for his role as Prince in Robert Walser's 1901 drama Schneewittchen (Snow White)
 * 2007: The Förderpreis Deutscher Film (Young German Cinema Award) in the best actor category for his role as Sven Lehnert in And Along Come Tourists (2006)
 * 2011: The Shooting Stars Award by European Film Promotion at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Theater credits

 * Schneewittchen by Robert Walser, directed by Thorsten Lensing and Jan Hein (2005)
 * Glaube Liebe Hoffnung by Ödön von Horváth; directed by Thomas Dannemann (2005)
 * Die lustigen Nibelungen by Oscar Straus, directed by Robert Borgmann (2006)
 * Wallensteins Lager / Die Piccolomini / Wallensteins Tod by Friedrich Schiller, directed by Peter Stein (2007)

Film

 * And Along Come Tourists (2007, Director: Robert Thalheim) – Sven Lehnert
 * Buddenbrooks (2007, Director: Heinrich Breloer) – Morten Schwarzkopf
 * Storm (2009, Director: Hans-Christian Schmid) – Patrick Färber
 * Inglourious Basterds (2009, Director: Quentin Tarantino) – Master Sgt. Wilhelm / Pola Negri
 * 13 Semester (2009, Director: Frieder Wittich) – Bernd
 * Goethe! (2010, Director: Philipp Stölzl) – Johann Goethe
 * If Not Us, Who? (2011) – Andreas Baader
 * The River Used to Be a Man (2011)
 * Shores of Hope (2012) – Cornelis Schmidt
 * Erased (The Expatriate) (2012) – Floyd
 * Buddy (2013 German film) (2013, Director: Michael Bully Herbig) – Eddie Weber
 * Labyrinth of Lies (2014) – Johann Radmann
 * Posthumous (2014) – Erik Alder
 * Atomic Falafel (2015) – Oli
 * In Times of Fading Light (2017) – Sascha Umnitzer
 * Fatal News (2015) – David Burger
 * Three Peaks (2017, Director: Jan Zabeil) – Aaron
 * The Captain (2017) – Junker
 * Das Ende der Wahrheit (2019) – Patrick Lemke
 * A Hidden Life (2019) – Lawyer Feldman
 * Gut gegen Nordwind (2019) – Leo
 * Seneca – On the Creation of Earthquakes (2023) - Decimus
 * Scorched Earth (2024)