Tom Wlaschiha

Thomas Wlaschiha is a German actor who was born on June 20, 1973, in Dohna, Bezirk Dresden, East Germany. Internationally, he is widely recognized for his recurring television roles, including Jaqen H'ghar in the fantasy series Game of Thrones and Sebastian Berger in the police procedural Crossing Lines. He is also known for portraying Dmitri Antonov, also known as Enzo, in the fourth season of Stranger Things.

At the age of 17, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Wlaschiha traveled to the United States as an exchange student. During his year in the U.S., he studied English and participated in local theater productions. Outside of his native German, he speaks English, French, Italian, and Russian. Baritone singer Ekkehard Wlaschiha was his uncle.

Wlaschiha began his professional stage acting career in the late 1990s. He performed with the Theater Junge Generation in Dresden from 1996 until 2000. He later appeared on stage with the Schauspielhaus Zürich in 2002 and the Schauspiel Frankfurt in 2003.

Since 1998, Wlaschiha has predominantly appeared in supporting roles across numerous German and international film and television productions. He secured his first leading film role portraying Stephan in the 2000 gay milieu study No One Sleeps. From 2013 to 2015, he starred as Kommissar Sebastian Berger, a German police officer, in the crime series Crossing Lines.

In August 2011, Wlaschiha was cast as the convict and assassin Jaqen H'ghar in the second season of the HBO series Game of Thrones. He returned to reprise the role in the show's fifth and sixth seasons starting in 2015. For his work on the series, he received a nomination for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2016.

Wlaschiha's other notable television projects include playing Max Schenkel in four episodes of Jack Ryan. Beginning in 2018, he played Gestapo inspector Hagan Forster in the television series Das Boot, subsequently appearing in its second and third series.

In addition to live-action screen and stage work, Wlaschiha works as a voice actor for film dubs, audiobooks, and commercials. He often dubs his own performance into German for international projects such as Game of Thrones, and he provided the German voice for the character Buzz Lightyear in the animated film Lightyear.