Max Riemelt
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.
Born: 07 January 1984
Played In
Home Stories
Matze
Free Fall – Who You Are
Kay Engel
Spurlos in Venedig
Angelo (Gabriel Wendt)
The Tasters
Ziegler
About Luis
Jens
Two to One
Robert
Sleeping Dog
Mike Atlas
Ernesto's Island
Matthias
Bonn
Wolfgang Berns
Talking About the Weather
Marcel
Ein Taxi zur Bescherung
Jan Olsmer
The Matrix Resurrections
Sheperd
The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea
Oliver
Precious Ivie
Paul
Der Schneegänger
Lutz Gehring
Head Burst
Markus
World on Fire
Schmidt
My Mother's Girlfriend
Jan
Berlin Syndrome
Andi Werner
Icons of Light
Steffen
Amnesia
Jo
Sense8: Creating the World
Wolfgang Bogdanovic
Sanctuary
Bruder Krapp
Sense8
Wolfgang Bogdanow
Storno: Todsicher versichert
Rupert
To Life!
Jonas
Warsaw 44
Johann Krauss
Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
Bernd Rosemeyer
Blutgeld
Ralf Seifert
Der zweite Mann
Adrian Davids
Free Fall
Kay Engel
Forgotten
Marcus
Auslandseinsatz
Daniel Gerber
The German Friend
Friedrich Burg
Partly Sunny
Tim
The Fourth State
Dima
A Family of Three
Lars Dewenter
Playoff
Thomas
Urban Explorer
Dante / Kris
Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg
Thomas Hafner
We Are the Night
Tom Serner
In the Face of Crime
Marek Gorsky
Der letzte Bulle
Dennis Paschmann
13 Semester
'Momo'
Thousand Oceans
Meikel
Run for Your Life!
Andreas Niedrig
The Wave
Marco
Up! Up! To the sky
Arnold
Snipers Valley
Charly
An die Grenze
Gefreiter Kerner
GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln
Edgar (Polizist), Art. 2
Die Zigarrenkiste
Der Kriminalist
Michael Büssig
Der Untergang der Pamir
Carl-Friedrich von Krempin
The Red Cockatoo
Siggi
Hallesche Kometen
Ingo
Nachtasyl
Aljoscha
(Feinde)
Deutscher Soldat
Der Staatsanwalt
Markus Pohl
Before the Fall
Friedrich Weimer
Girls on Top 2
Flin
ZIBB
Self
Lottoschein ins Glück
Björn Michels
Mein Vater und andere Betrüger
Robertino
Girls on Top
Flin
Brennendes Schweigen
Schappi
Bear on the Run
Tom
Ein Weihnachtsmärchen – Wenn alle Herzen schmelzen
Lukas
German Television Award
Self
In aller Freundschaft
Mirco Venske
Zwei allein
Max
Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP
Timo
Eine Familie zum Küssen
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
Marcel Freese
Balko
Ingo Grabowski
Wolffs Revier
Harald Bernhard
Morgenmagazin
Self
DAS!
Self
Bavarian Film Awards
Self
Kölner Treff
Self
Scene of the Crime
Louis Bürger
Grimme Award
Self
Golem
The Angel Makers
Zeit der Wunder – Das Tafelsilber der Deutschen Einheit
Herkunft