Max Riemelt

Acting · Born 1984-01-07 in Berlin, Germany

Biography

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…

Filmography

• The Wave as Marco
• Before the Fall as Friedrich Weimer
• Free Fall as Kay Engel
• Run for Your Life! as Andreas Niedrig
• Snipers Valley as Charly
• Girls on Top 2 as Flin
• Precious Ivie as Paul
• The Red Cockatoo as Siggi
• Der Untergang der Pamir as Carl-Friedrich von Krempin
• Up! Up! To the sky as Arnold

TV

• Sense8 as Wolfgang Bogdanow
• Wolffs Revier as Harald Bernhard
• Der Kriminalist as Michael Büssig
• In the Face of Crime as Marek Gorsky
• Der Staatsanwalt as Markus Pohl
• Der letzte Bulle as Dennis Paschmann
• Sleeping Dog as Mike Atlas
• Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP as Timo
• Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police as Marcel Freese
• Balko as Ingo Grabowski