Max Riemelt
Acting
- Born:
- 1984-01-07
- 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
Filmography
Herkunft
Holidays
The Grim Ones
Home Stories
Free Fall – Who You Are
Spurlos in Venedig
The Tasters
About Luis
Two to One
Sleeping Dog
Ernesto's Island
Bonn
Talking About the Weather
Ein Taxi zur Bescherung
The Matrix Resurrections
The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea
Precious Ivie
Der Schneegänger
Head Burst
World on Fire
My Mother's Girlfriend
Berlin Syndrome
Icons of Light
Amnesia
Sense8: Creating the World
Sanctuary
Sense8
Storno: Todsicher versichert
To Life!
Warsaw 44
Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
Blutgeld
Der zweite Mann
Free Fall
Forgotten
Auslandseinsatz
The German Friend
Partly Sunny
The Fourth State
A Family of Three
Playoff
Urban Explorer
Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg
We Are the Night
In the Face of Crime
Der letzte Bulle
13 Semester
Thousand Oceans
Run for Your Life!
The Wave
Up! Up! To the sky
Snipers Valley
An die Grenze
GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln
Die Zigarrenkiste
Der Kriminalist
Der Untergang der Pamir
The Red Cockatoo
Hallesche Kometen
Nachtasyl
(Feinde)
Der Staatsanwalt
Before the Fall
Girls on Top 2
ZIBB
Lottoschein ins Glück
Mein Vater und andere Betrüger
Girls on Top
Brennendes Schweigen
Bear on the Run
Ein Weihnachtsmärchen – Wenn alle Herzen schmelzen
Deutscher Fernsehpreis
In All Friendship
Zwei allein
Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP
Eine Familie zum Küssen
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
Balko
Wolffs Revier
Morgenmagazin
DAS!
Bavarian Film Awards
Kölner Treff
Scene of the Crime
Grimme Award
Golem
The Angel Makers
Zeit der Wunder – Das Tafelsilber der Deutschen Einheit
A Decent Man