Max Riemelt
Known for: Acting
Born: January 7, 1984
Place of birth: Berlin, Germany
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.
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Filmography
64 movies · 22 TV shows, newest first
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Herkunft
2027
6.3
Home Stories
2026
8.0
Free Fall – Who You Are
2026
6.8
Spurlos in Venedig
2025
6.6
The Tasters
2025
6.5
About Luis
2025
6.3
Two to One
2024
6.3
Sleeping Dog
2023
6.3
Ernesto's Island
2023
7.8
Bonn
2023
6.6
Talking About the Weather
2022
6.0
Ein Taxi zur Bescherung
2022
6.3
The Matrix Resurrections
2021
5.3
The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea
2021
5.3
Precious Ivie
2021
6.0
Der Schneegänger
2020
6.6
Head Burst
2019
7.5
World on Fire
2019
3.7
My Mother's Girlfriend
2019
6.0
Berlin Syndrome
2017
5.0
Icons of Light
2016
5.5
Amnesia
2015
7.7
Sense8: Creating the World
2015
7.2
Sanctuary
2015
7.7
Sense8
2015
7.0
Storno: Todsicher versichert
2015
5.2
To Life!
2014
6.7
Warsaw 44
2014
5.4
Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
2014
4.8
Blutgeld
2013
3.0
Der zweite Mann
2013
7.7
Free Fall
2013
5.9
Forgotten
2012
5.7
Auslandseinsatz
2012
5.4
The German Friend
2012
6.2
Partly Sunny
2012
6.0
The Fourth State
2012
5.0
A Family of Three
2012
4.5
Playoff
2011
5.1
Urban Explorer
2011
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Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg
2011
6.0
We Are the Night
2010
6.8
In the Face of Crime
2010
7.3
Der letzte Bulle
2010
6.3
13 Semester
2009
7.0
Thousand Oceans
2008
4.9
Run for Your Life!
2008
7.5
The Wave
20083.5
Up! Up! To the sky
2008
4.6
Snipers Valley
2007
4.8
An die Grenze
2007
4.5
GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln
2007
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Die Zigarrenkiste
2006
4.5
Der Kriminalist
2006
7.6
Der Untergang der Pamir
2006
5.5
The Red Cockatoo
2006
5.7
Hallesche Kometen
20063.7
Nachtasyl
200510.0
(Feinde)
2005
5.4
Der Staatsanwalt
2005
7.1
Before the Fall
2004
4.8
Girls on Top 2
20047.0
ZIBB
2003
5.4
Lottoschein ins Glück
20039.0
Mein Vater und andere Betrüger
2001
5.2
Girls on Top
2001
7.0
Brennendes Schweigen
2000
4.0
Bear on the Run
2000
3.7
Ein Weihnachtsmärchen – Wenn alle Herzen schmelzen
19998.0
German Television Award
1999
6.3
In aller Freundschaft
1998
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Zwei allein
1998
6.0
Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP
19978.0
Eine Familie zum Küssen
1997
6.6
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
1996
6.2
Balko
1995
3.7
Wolffs Revier
1992
5.3
Morgenmagazin
1992
4.7
DAS!
1991NR
Bavarian Film Awards
1979
6.8
Kölner Treff
1976
6.2
Scene of the Crime
1970NR
Grimme Award
1964NR
Golem
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The Angel Makers
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Zeit der Wunder – Das Tafelsilber der Deutschen Einheit
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