Matthias Habich (born 12 January 1940) is a German actor. Habich was born in Danzig/Gdansk (Germany then, Poland today). He grew up in Hamburg and after graduating from the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Gymnasium Hamburg, joined Harburg-Eimsbüttel University of Music and Drama. He also studied for one semester in 1966 at the Conservatoire de Paris, and took acting classes with Lee Strasberg in the USA. He then played at theaters in Chur, Baden-Baden, Basel, Wuppertal, Zürich und München. He currently lives in Paris.