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Max Riemelt

Max Riemelt

Birthday: 1984-01-07 | 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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2019
My Mother's Girlfriend

as    Jan

2019
Head Burst

as    Markus

2018
Sense8: Amor Vincit Omnia

as    Wolfgang Bogdanow

2017
Berlin Syndrome

as    Andi Werner

2015
Amnesia

as    Jo

2015
Sense8: Creating the World

as    Wolfgang Bogdanovic

2015
Sense8

as    Wolfgang Bogdanow

2013
Free Fall

as    Kay Engel

2012
The German Friend

as    Friedrich Burg

2012
Partly Sunny

as    Tim

2011
The Depraved

as    Kris

2010
In the Face of Crime

as    Marek Gorsky

2010
We Are the Night

as    Tom Serner

2008
Run for Your Life!

as    Andreas Niedrig

2008
The Wave

as    Marco

2005
Before the Fall

as    Friedrich Weimer

2001
Girls on Top

as    Flin