Max Riemelt
Known For
Acting
Born
1984-01-07 in 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.
Most Known For
Scene of the Crime
as Louis Bürger
ZIBB
as Self
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
as Marcel Freese
DAS!
as Self
Morgenmagazin
as Self
In aller Freundschaft
as Mirco Venske
Sense8
as Wolfgang Bogdanow
Grimme Award
as Self
Kölner Treff
as Self
Two to One
as Robert
The Matrix Resurrections
as Sheperd
Der Kriminalist
as Michael Büssig
Wolffs Revier
as Harald Bernhard
Der Staatsanwalt
as Markus Pohl
Der letzte Bulle
as Dennis Paschmann
Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP
as Timo
Urban Explorer
as Dante / Kris
World on Fire
as Schmidt
Snipers Valley
as Charly
German Television Award
as Self