Max Riemelt
Acting
Biography
Max Riemelt (born in East Berlin, East Germany on 7 January 1984) is a German actor. Internationally, he is best known for playing Wolfgang Bogdanow in the television series Sense8. He is also well-known for acting in movies such as Before the Fall (2004), The Wave (2008) and Free Fall (2013). At the 2004 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, he won the best actor award for ‘Napola’ and in the 2006 Bavarian Film Awards, he won the best young actor award for ‘Der Rote Kakadu’. Riemelt's career began in Germany at the age of 13, in the TV productions Eine Familie zum Küssen and Praxis Bülowbogen. The following year Riemelt played his first leading role in the ZDF Christmas series Zwei allein (director: Matthias Steurer): the Waisenkind "Max Loser". In the video for the title song "Two of a Kind" by the Hamburg duo "R & B", Riemelt has a cameo appearance. He has starred in all of Dennis Gansel's feature films, starting with Mädchen, Mädchen. In 2013, he starred in the movie Free Fall with Hanno Koffler, in which he plays Kay Engel, a police officer in training. The movie depicts a gay love story and has been compared to Brokeback Mountain. From 2015 to 2018, he starred in The Wachowskis' Netflix series Sense8, playing Wolfgang Bogdanow, a German safe cracker. The first season received positive reviews from critics. In 2020, he joined the cast of The Matrix 4.
Born: January 7, 1984
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Known For
Filmography
as Ziegler
as Jens
as Robert
as Mike Atlas
as Matthias
as Wolfgang Berns
as Marcel
as Jan Olsmer
as Sheperd
as Paul
as Lutz Gehring
as Markus
as Schmidt
as Jan
as Andi Werner
as Steffen
as Jo
as Wolfgang Bogdanovic
as Bruder Krapp
as Wolfgang Bogdanow
as Rupert
as Jonas
as Johann Krauss
as Bernd Rosemeyer
as Ralf Seifert
as Adrian Davids
as Kay Engel
as Marcus
as Daniel Gerber
as Friedrich Burg
as Tim
as Dima
as Lars Dewenter
as Thomas
as Dante / Kris
as Thomas Hafner
as Tom Serner
as Marek Gorsky
as Dennis Paschmann
as 'Momo'
as Meikel
as Andreas Niedrig
as Marco
as Charly
as Gefreiter Kerner
as Edgar (Polizist), Art. 2
as Michael Büssig
as Carl-Friedrich von Krempin
as Siggi
as Ingo
as Markus Pohl
as Friedrich Weimer
as Flin
as Björn Michels
as Flin
as Schappi
as Tom
as Mirco Venske
as Max
as Marcel Freese
as Ingo Grabowski
as Harald Bernhard
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Louis Bürger