Fan Casting Leopold Strauss in Red Dead Redemption

Originally hailing from Austria, Herr Strauss is responsible for keeping the Van der Linde Gang's books and running their money lending operation. A serious, somewhat shifty and unemotional man, he has all the qualities a loan shark needs. He grew up very poor in Vienna, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and had some serious health problems during childhood. At age 17, the young Leopold Strauss was sent on a boat to the New World. After years of scamming the wrong people, he fell in with Dutch mainly for protection and has been with him ever since.