Christian Berkel

Known for ActingBorn 1957-10-28 (age 68)Berlin, West Germany [now Germany]

Christian Berkel (born October 28, 1957) is a German actor. Berkel was born in Berlin, Germany. His father was a military doctor. From the age of 14 he lived in Paris where he took drama lessons with Jean-Louis Barrault and Pierre Berlin. He then trained at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin and appeared on stage in Augsburg, Düsseldorf, Munich, Vienna and at the Schiller Theatre, Berlin. He has appeared in many German television productions and secured a major role in the Academy Award-nominated film Downfall as Doctor Ernst-Günther Schenck. He has followed this with significant roles in the Paul Verhoeven directed Dutch movie Black Book and the big budget United States movies Flightplan, Valkyrie (in which he portrayed Colonel Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim) and the Academy Award-nominated Inglourious Basterds. He lives in Berlin with the actress Andrea Sawatzki, with whom he has two sons. He is also fluent in French and English. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christian Berkel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Der Vater meiner Schwester

Ein Herz für Kinder

Simones Entscheidung

Lautlose Schritte

Der Mann ohne Schatten

Ich, der Boss

Das Schicksal der Lilian H.

The Devil Kissed from Behind

Eine Jugendliebe

Dalli Dalli

Realm of the Volga

maybrit illner

Gates of Fire

Drei Frauen und (k)ein Mann

Ein Herz für Laura

Die Gerichtsreporterin

Das schöne irre Judenmädchen

Maiden's War

Bambi

Roche & Böhmermann

Inglourious Basterds

New Year's Eve

Paradise Is a Trap

Lea Katz - Die Kriminalpsychologin: Einer von uns

Spur eines Zweifels

A.S. Gefahr ist sein Geschäft

Die Kommissarin

Hecht & Haie

Downfall

Der Bastard

Hijack

Wer weiß denn sowas?

In Wahrheit

The Johannes B. Kerner Show

Black Book

Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht

Tod auf Amrum

NSU German History X

Mutter, ich will nicht sterben!

The Experiment

Die Cleveren

Blondine sucht Millionär fürs Leben

Trumbo

Furia

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Das dunkle Nest

Inspector Rex

Criminal: Germany