- After losing a legal battle over custody for his daughter, he became a strong activist for the rights of fathers. In a controversial performance, he was symbolically crucified in front of the German Ministery of Justice (17 June 2006).
- Speaks French fluently and has acted in several French language films.
- Studied philosophy in Paris.
- Grew up in Berlin and Lübeck.
- Sibllings, Till Carrière (1952-1979) and Mareike Carrière (1954-2014).
- Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1980
- His very first two film roles were as the title character from novels written by famous German writers: as Tonio Kroeger (1964) which was based on Thomas Mann novel and as Les désarrois de l'élève Törless (1966) based on Robert Musil's novel.
- A doctor's son of Huguenot ancestry.
- Began his career as the titular teenage protagonists of Tonio Kröger and Young Törless.
- Often seen in morbid roles as depressed artists, asocial types, effete or cowardly aristocrats, eccentrics and oddballs.
- Has two daughters, Alice Isabelle (born in 1985 in the USA) with Jennifer Bartlett; and Elena Carriere (b. 1996) with Bettina Catharina Proske.
- Is a cousin to actor Justus Carrière.
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