Max Riemelt
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Max Riemelt

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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.

Films Featuring Max Riemelt

Run for Your Life!

20084.9

Snipers Valley

20074.6

Girls on Top 2

20044.8

Precious Ivie

20215.3

The Red Cockatoo

20065.5

The Wave

20087.5

Der Untergang der Pamir

20067.6

Up! Up! To the sky

Up! Up! To the sky

20083.5

An die Grenze

20074.8

Girls on Top

20015.2

Before the Fall

20047.0

13 Semester

20096.3

We Are the Night

20106.0

Urban Explorer

20115.1

The Fourth State

20126.0

Hallesche Kometen

20065.7

Playoff

20114.5

Forgotten

20125.9

The German Friend

20125.4

Partly Sunny

20126.2

Auslandseinsatz

20125.7

Free Fall

20137.7

A Family of Three

20125.0

Bear on the Run

20004.0

Talking About the Weather

20226.7

Thousand Oceans

20087.0

Der zweite Mann

20133.0

Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight

20145.4

Ein Weihnachtsmärchen – Wenn alle Herzen schmelzen

19993.7

Two to One

20246.3

Lottoschein ins Glück

20035.4

Mein Vater und andere Betrüger

Mein Vater und andere Betrüger

20019.0

Ernesto's Island

20236.3

Blutgeld

20134.8

Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg

2011

Sanctuary

20157.2

Amnesia

20155.5

Storno: Todsicher versichert

20157.0

Warsaw 44

20146.7

Ein Taxi zur Bescherung

20226.0

To Life!

20145.2

Sense8: Creating the World

20157.7

Berlin Syndrome

20176.0

Brennendes Schweigen

20007.0

Icons of Light

20165.0

Eine Familie zum Küssen

Eine Familie zum Küssen

19978.0

Home Stories

20266.3

Golem

Golem

The Angel Makers

The Angel Makers

GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln

20074.5

Nachtasyl

Nachtasyl

20053.7

My Mother's Girlfriend

20193.7

Head Burst

20196.6

Der Schneegänger

20206.0

The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea

20215.4

The Matrix Resurrections

20216.3

About Luis

20256.5

The Tasters

20256.6

Die Zigarrenkiste

2006

Spurlos in Venedig

20256.8

(Feinde)

(Feinde)

200510.0

Zeit der Wunder – Das Tafelsilber der Deutschen Einheit

Zeit der Wunder – Das Tafelsilber der Deutschen Einheit

Herkunft

Herkunft

2027

Free Fall – Who You Are

20268.0