Max Riemelt
Birthday: 1984-01-07 | Place of Birth: Berlin, GermanyMax 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
Acting
Role
as Jens
as Ziegler
as Robert
as Matthias
as Mike Atlas
as Wolfgang Berns
as Jan Olsmer
as Marcel
as Paul
as Lutz Gehring
as Jan
as Markus
as Wolfgang Bogdanow
as Andi Werner
as Jo
as Bruder Krapp
as Rupert
as Wolfgang Bogdanovic
as Wolfgang Bogdanow
as Bernd Rosemeyer
as Jonas
as Adrian Davids
as Kay Engel
as Ralf Seifert
as Dima
as Marcus
as Tim
