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Thomas Mraz (* October 11, 1975 in Vienna ) is an Austrian actor.

Life
Thomas Mraz studied acting at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna from 1999 to 2002, and took voice lessons with Klaus Ofczarek. He was then a member of the ensemble at the Landestheater Niederösterreich until 2007, where his roles included the title roles in Hamlet and Woyzeck, as well as the Conferencier in Cabaret, the dentist in Little Shop of Horrors and Max in Lend Me a Tenor. In 2008 he played alongside Michael Niavarani in his cabaret program Encyclopaedia Niavaranica. At the Theater in der Josefstadt he appeared on stage as butcher Oskar in Horváth's Tales from the Vienna Woods and as Der Merkl Franz in Kasimir und Karoline. At the Berndorf Festival in 2011, under the artistic direction of Michael Niavarani, the comedy Die Odyssee – Eine Abkürzung, written by Mraz, was premiered.

In the 2013 feature film Bad Fucking he was seen in the role of Philipp Hintersteiner, in the television series Vorstadtweiber he has embodied the role of police officer Jörg Pudschedl since 2015.

In January 2015, he premiered the comedy Après Ski – Ruhe da oben! by author Klaus Eckel at the Vienna Stadtsaal, directed by Bernhard Murg. In this one-person play, Mraz embodied a skier who is forgotten on a chairlift. In 2015, he directed the filming of the ORF sketch comedy Kalahari Gemsen by and with Angelika Niedetzky and Ramesh Nair. In 2017 he played the role of Sancho Panza at the Theatersommer Haag alongside Christian Dolezal as Don Quixote. In December 2018, he was one of the four contestants on the celebrity edition of the Millionenshow.

In the ORF series Wischen ist Macht (2020) with Ursula Strauss as Michelle Sendracek, he embodies her ex-husband Hugo. In February 2020, he premiered the 70s rock operetta Orpheus in the Underworld based on the operetta of the same name by Jacques Offenbach, directed by Ruth Brauer-Kvam at the Rabenhof Theater.

For his portrayal of Götz in the film Risiken und Nebenwirkungen by Michael Kreihsl based on the play The Kidney by Stefan Vögel, he was nominated for the 2021 Austrian Film Award for Best Male Actor. For the ORF/BR comedy Eigentlich sollten wir, he wrote the script together with Klaus Eckel and also took on the leading role as press photographer Stefan Steindl under the direction of Harald Sicheritz.