Christian Berkel

Acting · Born 1957-10-28 in Berlin, West Germany [now Germany]

Biography

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…

Filmography

• The Experiment as Robert Steinhoff, Prisoner Nr. 38
• Downfall as Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck
• Valkyrie as Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim
• Inglourious Basterds as Proprietor Eric
• Black Book as General Käutner
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Udo
• Trumbo as Otto Preminger
• Leningrad as Vinkelmeyer
• Soundless as Lang
• Guys & Balls as Rudolf

TV

• Hijack as Roland Murnau
• Markus Lanz as Self
• ZDF-Mittagsmagazin as Self
• Der Bastard as Felix Dennison
• Scene of the Crime as Uwe Pfandler
• Scene of the Crime as Erik Steinbeck
• Die Kommissarin as Walter Neumann
• Der Kriminalist as Hauptkommissar Bruno Schumann
• Voices of Liberation as Self
• Doppelter Einsatz as Sebastian van Leuyen