Max Riemelt

Known for ActingBorn 1984-01-07 (age 42)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.Read more

Movies & web series

(Feinde)

Mein Vater und andere Betrüger

Bonn

German Television Award

Eine Familie zum Küssen

Sense8

Sense8: Creating the World

Free Fall

World on Fire

Der Untergang der Pamir

The Wave

Der letzte Bulle

Sanctuary

Storno: Todsicher versichert

Spurlos in Venedig

Thousand Oceans

Before the Fall

ZIBB

Brennendes Schweigen

In the Face of Crime

The Tasters

Warsaw 44

Ernesto's Island

Head Burst

About Luis

Talking About the Weather

Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police

Two to One

The Matrix Resurrections

Kölner Treff

Sleeping Dog

13 Semester

Partly Sunny

In aller Freundschaft

Ein Taxi zur Bescherung

Der Schneegänger

Berlin Syndrome

We Are the Night

The Fourth State

Balko

Forgotten

Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP

Scene of the Crime

Auslandseinsatz

Hallesche Kometen

Amnesia

Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight

The Red Cockatoo