Name
Max Riemelt
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1984-01-07 (42 years old)
Place of Birth
Berlin, Germany
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.
Known For
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Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself bac...
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In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political A...
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The adventures of three teenage girls - Inken, Vicky and Lena - and their quest to have th...
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Anxious to explore the mysterious hidden world under metropolitan Berlin, an international...
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Markus is a handsome and respectable architect who has a secret: he is a pedophile. Despit...
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- 2007 Snipers Valley as Charly
- 2004 Girls on Top 2 as Flin
- 2021 Precious Ivie as Paul
- 2006 The Red Cockatoo as Siggi
- 2008 The Wave as Marco
- 2006 Der Untergang der Pamir as Carl-Friedrich von Krempin
- 2008 Up! Up! To the sky as Arnold
- 2007 An die Grenze as Gefreiter Kerner
- 2001 Girls on Top as Flin
- 2004 Before the Fall as Friedrich Weimer
- 2009 13 Semester as 'Momo'
- 2010 We Are the Night as Tom Serner
- 2011 Urban Explorer as Dante / Kris
- 2012 The Fourth State as Dima
- 2006 Hallesche Kometen as Ingo
- 2011 Playoff as Thomas
- 2012 Forgotten as Marcus
- 2012 Partly Sunny as Tim
- 2012 The German Friend as Friedrich Burg
- 2012 Auslandseinsatz as Daniel Gerber
- 2013 Free Fall as Kay Engel
- 2012 A Family of Three as Lars Dewenter
- 2000 Bear on the Run as Tom
- 2022 Talking About the Weather as Marcel
- 2008 Thousand Oceans as Meikel
- 2013 Der zweite Mann as Adrian Davids
- 2014 Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight as Bernd Rosemeyer
- 1999 Ein Weihnachtsmärchen – Wenn alle Herzen schmelzen as Lukas
- 2024 Two to One as Robert
- 2003 Lottoschein ins Glück as Björn Michels
- 2001 Mein Vater und andere Betrüger as Robertino
- 2023 Ernesto's Island as Matthias
- 2013 Blutgeld as Ralf Seifert
- 2011 Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg as Thomas Hafner
- 2015 Sanctuary as Bruder Krapp
- 2015 Amnesia as Jo
- 2015 Storno: Todsicher versichert as Rupert
- 2014 Warsaw 44 as Johann Krauss
- 2022 Ein Taxi zur Bescherung as Jan Olsmer
- 2014 To Life! as Jonas
- 2015 Sense8: Creating the World as Wolfgang Bogdanovic
- 2017 Berlin Syndrome as Andi Werner
- 2000 Brennendes Schweigen as Schappi
- 2016 Icons of Light as Steffen
- 1997 Eine Familie zum Küssen
- 2026 Home Stories as Matze
- Soon Golem
- Soon The Angel Makers
- 2007 GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln as Edgar (Polizist), Art. 2
- 2005 Nachtasyl as Aljoscha
- 2019 My Mother's Girlfriend as Jan
- 2019 Head Burst as Markus
- 2020 Der Schneegänger as Lutz Gehring
- 2021 The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea as Oliver
- 2021 The Matrix Resurrections as Sheperd
- 2025 About Luis as Jens
- 2025 The Tasters as Ziegler
- 2006 Die Zigarrenkiste
- 2025 Spurlos in Venedig as Angelo (Gabriel Wendt)
- 2005 (Feinde) as Deutscher Soldat
- Soon Zeit der Wunder – Das Tafelsilber der Deutschen Einheit
- 2027 Herkunft
- 2026 Free Fall – Who You Are as Kay Engel
- 2026 Holidays as Jan
- 1992 Wolffs Revier ( 1 episode ) as Harald Bernhard
- 2006 Der Kriminalist ( 1 episode ) as Michael Büssig
- 2010 In the Face of Crime ( 10 episodes ) as Marek Gorsky
- 2005 Der Staatsanwalt ( 1 episode ) as Markus Pohl
- 2015 Sense8 ( 24 episodes ) as Wolfgang Bogdanow
- 2010 Der letzte Bulle ( 1 episode ) as Dennis Paschmann
- 2023 Sleeping Dog ( 6 episodes ) as Mike Atlas
- 1997 Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP ( 2 episodes ) as Timo
- 1996 Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police ( 1 episode ) as Marcel Freese
- 1995 Balko ( 1 episode ) as Ingo Grabowski
- 1998 In All Friendship ( 1 episode ) as Mirco Venske
- 1999 Deutscher Fernsehpreis ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1964 Grimme Award ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1979 Bavarian Film Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1998 Zwei allein ( 12 episodes ) as Max
- 2023 Bonn ( 6 episodes ) as Wolfgang Berns
- 1976 Kölner Treff ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1970 Scene of the Crime ( 1 episode ) as Louis Bürger
- 1991 DAS! ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 2019 World on Fire ( 7 episodes ) as Schmidt
- 2003 ZIBB ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1992 Morgenmagazin ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2026 The Grim Ones ( 6 episodes ) as Ben Sandmann
- Soon A Decent Man ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Moritz Berner
