Christian Berkel
Biography
Christian Berkel (born October 28, 1957) is a German actor.
Berkel was born in Berlin, Germany. His father was a military doctor.
From the age of 14 he lived in Paris where he took drama lessons with Jean-Louis Barrault and Pierre Berlin. He then trained at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin and appeared on stage in Augsburg, Düsseldorf, Munich, Vienna and at the Schiller Theatre, Berlin.
He has appeared in many German television productions and secured a major role in the Academy Award-nominated film Downfall as Doctor Ernst-Günther Schenck. He has followed this with significant roles in the Paul Verhoeven directed Dutch movie Black Book and the big budget United States movies Flightplan, Valkyrie (in which he portrayed Colonel Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim) and the Academy Award-nominated Inglourious Basterds.
He lives in Berlin with the actress Andrea Sawatzki, with whom he has two sons. He is also fluent in French and English.
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Full filmography
- Scene of the Crime (1970) as Uwe Pfandler
- Scene of the Crime (1970) as Erik Steinbeck
- Scene of the Crime (1970) as Rainer Wenisch
- Scene of the Crime (1970) as Alfred Waller
- Scene of the Crime (1970) as Doc Decker
- Markus Lanz (2008) as Self
- The Old Fox (1977) as Mano Deller
- The Old Fox (1977) as Thilo Müller
- The Old Fox (1977) as Hans Fänger
- The Old Fox (1977) as Werner Kuziemsky
- The Old Fox (1977) as Erik Falter
- The Old Fox (1977) as Peter Aulan
- The Old Fox (1977) as Hausmann
- The Old Fox (1977) as Peter Larsen
- The Old Fox (1977) as Harry Westphal
- Polizeiruf 110 (1971) as Max Ortheil
- ZIBB (2003) as Self
- Derrick (1974) as Alex Sierich
- Derrick (1974) as Lussmann
- Derrick (1974) as Jürgen Klose
- Derrick (1974) as Dixi
- Derrick (1974) as Andy Stein
- Derrick (1974) as Rolf Laduhn
- Derrick (1974) as Psychopath