Til Schweiger (b. 1963) is a German actor, director and producer, living in Hamburg. A leading actor in Germany, he made a cameo in Muppets Most Wanted, credited as "German Cop." He arrests Kermit in Berlin.
Schweiger began his screen career as a regular on the soap opera Lindenstrasse (as Jo Zenker, 1990-1992). He made his German film debut in 1991, as the lead in Manta Manta, and played similar tough guys in comedies, action films, or blends of both. He began appearing in English language films in 1998, usually key supporting roles, starting with The Replacement Killers (with Danny Trejo) and highlighted by Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (as Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz). Others include Judas Kiss (with Alan Rickman), SLC Punk! (with Matthew Lillard), Driven (with Sylvester Stallone), King Arthur, The Red Baron (with Lena Headey), This Means War (with Reese Witherspoon), Atomic Blonde (with James McAvoy), and Medieval (with Michael Caine).
In Germany, Schweiger wrote or directed most of his own movies from 1997 onward. He wrote, directed, and played second male lead in the drama Honig im Kopf (2014) and directed and cameoed in the English remake Head Full of Honey (2018). On TV, he starred as inspector Nick Tschiller in Hamburg episodes of Tatort (2013-2020). He played comic book hero Lucky Luke in the French comedy film Les Dalton and kept to his tough guy image as the German dubbing voice of Disney's Hercules.