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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Berlin, Germany, 1984-01-07

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1997	Eine Familie zum Küssen		0
2	1999	Ein Weihnachtsmärchen – Wenn alle Herzen schmelzen	Lukas	20
3	2000	Bear on the Run	Tom	40
4	2000	Brennendes Schweigen	Schappi	60
5	2001	Girls on Top	Flin	52
6	2001	Mein Vater und andere Betrüger	Robertino	0
7	2003	Lottoschein ins Glück	Björn Michels	48
8	2004	Girls on Top 2	Flin	49
9	2004	Before the Fall	Friedrich Weimer	70
10	2005	Nachtasyl	Aljoscha	10
11	2006	Hallesche Kometen	Ingo	56
12	2006	The Red Cockatoo	Siggi	55
13	2006	Der Untergang der Pamir	Carl-Friedrich von Krempin	70
14	2007	GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln	Edgar (Polizist), Art. 2	45
15	2007	An die Grenze	Gefreiter Kerner	54
16	2007	Snipers Valley	Charly	51
17	2008	Up! Up! To the sky	Arnold	40
18	2008	The Wave	Marco	75
19	2008	Run for Your Life!	Andreas Niedrig	50
20	2008	Thousand Oceans	Meikel	70
21	2009	13 Semester	'Momo'	65
22	2010	We Are the Night	Tom Serner	61
23	2011	Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg	Thomas Hafner	0
24	2011	Urban Explorer	Dante / Kris	51
25	2011	Playoff	Thomas	48
26	2012	A Family of Three	Lars Dewenter	56
27	2012	The Fourth State	Dima	59
28	2012	Partly Sunny	Tim	62
29	2012	The German Friend	Friedrich Burg	55
30	2012	Auslandseinsatz	Daniel Gerber	57
31	2012	Forgotten	Marcus	58
32	2013	Free Fall	Kay Engel	77
33	2013	Der zweite Mann	Adrian Davids	40
34	2013	Blutgeld	Ralf Seifert	57
35	2014	Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight	Bernd Rosemeyer	54
36	2014	Warsaw 44	Johann Krauss	68
37	2014	To Life!	Jonas	55
38	2015	Storno: Todsicher versichert	Rupert	70
39	2015	Sanctuary	Bruder Krapp	74
40	2015	Sense8: Creating the World	Wolfgang Bogdanovic	77
41	2015	Amnesia	Jo	54
42	2016	Icons of Light	Steffen	55
43	2017	Berlin Syndrome	Andi Werner	60
44	2019	My Mother's Girlfriend	Jan	30
45	2019	Head Burst	Markus	66
46	2020	Der Schneegänger	Lutz Gehring	60
47	2021	Precious Ivie	Paul	60
48	2021	The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea	Oliver	53
49	2021	The Matrix Resurrections	Sheperd	64
50	2022	Ein Taxi zur Bescherung	Jan Olsmer	60
51	2022	Talking About the Weather	Marcel	68
52	2023	Ernesto’s Island	Matthias	80
53	2024	Two to One	Robert	64
54		Etwas ganz Besonderes	Matze	0
55		Golem		0
56		The Angel Makers		0
57	2025	About Luis	Jens	0
58	2025	The Tasters	Ziegler	66

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1964	Grimme Awards Ceremony	Self	0
2	1970	Scene of the Crime	Louis Bürger	61
3	1976	Kölner Treff	Self	60
4	1979	Bayerischer Filmpreis	Self	0
5	1991	DAS!	Self	42
6	1992	Morgenmagazin	Self	35
7	1992	Wolffs Revier	Harald Bernhard	34
8	1995	Balko	Ingo Grabowski	58
9	1996	Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police	Marcel Freese	65
10	1997	Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP	Timo	45
11	1998	Zwei allein	Max	0
12	1998	In aller Freundschaft	Mirco Venske	60
13	1999	German Television Award	Self	80
14	2003	ZIBB	Self	0
15	2005	Der Staatsanwalt	Markus Pohl	53
16	2006	Der Kriminalist	Michael Büssig	52
17	2010	Der letzte Bulle	Dennis Paschmann	74
18	2010	In the Face of Crime	Marek Gorsky	69
19	2015	Sense8	Wolfgang Bogdanow	78
20	2019	World on Fire	Schmidt	76
21	2023	Bonn	Wolfgang Berns	78
22	2023	Sleeping Dog	Mike Atlas	62

Max Riemelt

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