Franz Tscherne (born December 3, 1964 in Graz) is an Austrian actor and film director. He has been on the stage of major and renowned theaters in Switzerland, Germany and Austria such as Zurich, Basel, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich and Vienna since the age of 19, playing many important parts of his genre from Shakespeare, Goethe, Molière and Goldoni to Horvath and Schnitzler under directors as famous as August Everding, Hans Hollmann, Hellmuth Matiasek, Rudolf Noelte, Robert Lepage and Leander Haußmann.