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Kacey Mottet Klein

Swiss actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ3191724 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kacey Mottet Klein (born 20 October 1998) is a Swiss actor.

Life and career

Kacey Mottet Klein was born in Lausanne to an American father and a Swiss mother. He made his screen debut in 2008, in Ursula Meier's Home, for which he won the Swiss Film Award for Best Emerging Actor. In 2012, he appeared in the film Sister, which was his second collaboration with director Ursula Meier. His performance won him another Swiss Film Award and also a nomination for the César Award for Most Promising Actor. In 2016, he was given the Shooting Stars Award at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kacey Mottet Klein” as swiss actor. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998, 2008, 2012, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1998-10-20. The account is most persuasive where Kacey, Mottet and Klein can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as swiss actor. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3191724. VIAF identifies the subject as 160690813. The Library of Congress control number is no2010205578. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1998, 2008, 2012 and 2016.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kacey Mottet Klein” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.