Background
Dominik Tiefenthaler was born in Switzerland, to an Austrian father and a German mother. He grew up in Kreuzlingen, a small town near Zurich, with his four sisters and one brother.
Dominik Tiefenthaler was born in Switzerland, to an Austrian father and a German mother. He grew up in Kreuzlingen, a small town near Zurich, with his four sisters and one brother.
He move to New York City in 2000, studied acting with William Esper and John Dapolito, and voice and speech with Shane Ann Younts.
His work includes Gossip Girl, The Good Wife, Person of Interest, Blue Bloods, The Blacklist, Boardwalk Empire, and the dramatic films Maybe Tomorrow and The Projectionist. He has also done voice-over projects, including Grand Theft Auto IV and Wolfenstein: The New Order. He enrolled in the Medical School of the University Zurich, and after receiving his Doctor of Medicine Degree worked for two years in the Neurosurgical Department of the Cantonal Hospital in Saint Gallen, Switzerland.
In the spring of 2004, he co-founded the Incumbo Theater Company in New York City, but left the group after two years to focus on a career in film and television
Tiefenthaler is the grandson of the Austrian historian and archivist Meinrad Tiefenthaler. Once married, now divorced, he lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.