Actor Max Riemelt

Max Riemelt
Photo of actor 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.
Place of birth
Berlin, Germany Berlin, Germany
Date of birth
7th January 1984
Movies that starred Max Riemelt (10 in total)
Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight poster

Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight [2014]

Bernd Rosemeyer
Free Fall poster

Free Fall [2013]

Kay Engel
We Are the Night poster

We Are the Night [2010]

Tom Serner
The Wave poster

The Wave [2008]

Marco
Up! Up! To the sky poster

Up! Up! To the sky [2008]

Arnold
Snipers Valley poster

Snipers Valley [2007]

Charly
Der Untergang der Pamir poster

Der Untergang der Pamir [2006]

Carl-Friedrich von Krempin
Before the Fall poster

Before the Fall [2004]

Friedrich Weimer
Girls on Top 2 poster

Girls on Top 2 [2004]

Flin
Girls on Top poster

Girls on Top [2001]

Flin
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