
Herbert Knaup is a German film and television actor. He is perhaps best-known to international audiences for his supporting roles in Run Lola Run and The Lives of Others. Longtime companion of actress Natalia Wörner until 2001. Supports the SOS Children's Villages.
Started a career as musician with his two nephews in their band "Neffen und Knaup" (Nephews and Knaup) (2007). Founding member of the German Screen Actors Guild. After graduating from the Otto Falckenberg School, the Academy of Performing Arts in Munich, he made his stage debut in 1978.

The Lives of Others
2006 · as Gregor Hessenstein

Hotel Desire
2011 · as Hotel Manager

Run Lola Run
1998 · as Father

In Darkness
2011 · as Ignacy Chiger

Patricias Geheimnis
1995 · as Henning

23 000 Lives
2026

Brother of Sleep
1995 · as Cantor Goller

Annas Heimkehr
2003 · as Toni Schweighofer

Distant Lights
2003 · as Klaus

Agnes and His Brothers
2004 · as Werner Tschirner

The Elementary Particles
2006 · as Sollers

Framed
1999 · as Un infirmier

Bon Appétit
2010 · as Thomas

Ordinary Decent Criminal
2000 · as De Heer

Harte Brötchen
2002 · as Jörg Erdmann

Clarissas Geheimnis
2012 · as Konstantin
Crusade in Jeans
2006 · as Carlo Bennatti

The Little Ghost
2013 · as Uhrmachermeister Zifferle