German actor Lars Eidinger stars in ‘White Noise’ as drug researcher Arlo Shell, a character based on the novel Mr. Grey, aka Willie Mink. Eidinger explained to Movieweb that he was cast in the film when several people, including co-star Greta Gerwig, recommended him to writer-director Noah Baumbach after seeing Eidinger in Richard III and Hamlet.
Eidinger began acting on stage in the late 1990s and has appeared on television since the early 1980s. For years, Eidinger appeared primarily in German shows, including the popular police series Großstadtrevier and the award-winning Berlin, Berlin, which received a Netflix sequel in 2020. In 2013 he starred in the British crime drama Foyle’s War and in 2018 he was cast as Berlin crime boss and club owner Sebastian Fuchs in the Netflix sci-fi series Sense8. From 2017 to 2020 he played the steel manufacturer and Kaiser Wilhelm II Stan Alfred Nyssen in the Sky 1 neo-noir thriller Babylon Berlin. In 2022, he appeared as actor Gottfried in the HBO comedy-drama series Irma Vep.”
Eidinger has also acted in a number of American, German, French, Swiss, Russian and other international films over the years. He starred with Kristen Stewart in the Olivier Assayas films Clouds of Sils Maria and Personal Shopper, and in the 2018 sci-fi horror film High Life, starring Robert Pattinson. A year later, he played Dumbo’s mother’s original owner, Mrs. Jumbo, in the live-action remake of Dumbo.
