Max Riemelt
ActingAlso Known As
Макс Римельт, 馬可斯·尼麥特
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.
Movies
(63 total)
The Matrix Resurrections
as Sheperd
The Wave
as Marco
Free Fall
as Kay Engel
Berlin Syndrome
as Andi Werner
Before the Fall
as Friedrich Weimer
We Are the Night
as Tom Serner
Warsaw 44
as Johann Krauss
The Tasters
as Ziegler
Girls on Top
as Flin
Urban Explorer
as Dante / Kris
Sense8: Creating the World
as Wolfgang Bogdanovic
Sanctuary
as Bruder Krapp
Girls on Top 2
as Flin
The Fourth State
as Dima
Partly Sunny
as Tim
Two to One
as Robert
Amnesia
as Jo
Forgotten
as Marcus
13 Semester
as 'Momo'
Head Burst
as Markus
TV Shows
(22 total)
Sense8
as Wolfgang Bogdanow
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
as Marcel Freese
Scene of the Crime
as Louis Bürger
World on Fire
as Schmidt
Sleeping Dog
as Mike Atlas
Der letzte Bulle
as Dennis Paschmann
In the Face of Crime
as Marek Gorsky
Bonn
as Wolfgang Berns
Der Staatsanwalt
as Markus Pohl
Wolffs Revier
as Harald Bernhard
Der Kriminalist
as Michael Büssig
In aller Freundschaft
as Mirco Venske
Balko
as Ingo Grabowski
DAS!
as Self
Kölner Treff
as Self
Morgenmagazin
as Self
Zwei allein
as Max