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Max Riemelt

Acting Born Jan 7, 1984 Berlin, Germany 24 credits

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.

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Known for

Film

Young Frankenstein

as Louis Bürger
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ZIBB

as Self

Sense8

as Wolfgang Bogdanow
Film

The Matrix Resurrections

as Sheperd

Full filmography

  • Scene of the Crime (1970) as Louis Bürger
  • ZIBB (2003) as Self
  • DAS! (1991) as Self
  • Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police (1996) as Marcel Freese
  • Kölner Treff (1976) as Self
  • Morgenmagazin (1992) as Self
  • In aller Freundschaft (1998) as Mirco Venske
  • Sense8 (2015) as Wolfgang Bogdanow
  • Wolffs Revier (1992) as Harald Bernhard
  • Der letzte Bulle (2010) as Dennis Paschmann
  • The Matrix Resurrections (2021) as Sheperd
  • Der Kriminalist (2006) as Michael Büssig
  • Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP (1997) as Timo
  • Grimme Award (1964) as Self
  • Der Staatsanwalt (2005) as Markus Pohl
  • Balko (1995) as Ingo Grabowski
  • Bavarian Film Awards (1979) as Self
  • German Television Award (1999) as Self
  • The Wave (2008) as Marco
  • World on Fire (2019) as Schmidt
  • Before the Fall (2004) as Friedrich Weimer
  • Sleeping Dog (2023) as Mike Atlas
  • In the Face of Crime (2010) as Marek Gorsky
  • Free Fall (2013) as Kay Engel