Max Riemelt
65 movies · 17 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 7, 1984 (age 42)
- Place of birth
- Berlin, Germany
- Also known as
- Макс Римельт · 馬可斯·尼麥特
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 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.
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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.
Known for
Max Riemelt: movies and TV shows
Acting (82)
- Upcoming Holidays
as Jan
- Upcoming
- Upcoming
- Upcoming
- Upcoming
- Upcoming
- 2026
- 2026 Home Stories
as Matze
- 2026 Free Fall – Who You Are
as Kay Engel
- 2025 Spurlos in Venedig
as Angelo (Gabriel Wendt)
- 2025 The Tasters
as Ziegler
- 2025 About Luis
as Jens
- 2024 Two to One
as Robert
- 2023
- 2023 Ernesto's Island
as Matthias
- 2023
- 2022 Talking About the Weather
as Marcel
- 2022 Ein Taxi zur Bescherung
as Jan Olsmer
- 2021 The Matrix Resurrections
as Sheperd
- 2021
- 2021 Precious Ivie
as Paul
- 2020 Der Schneegänger
as Lutz Gehring
- 2019 Head Burst
as Markus
- 2019
- 2019 My Mother's Girlfriend
as Jan
- 2017 Berlin Syndrome
as Andi Werner
- 2016 Icons of Light
as Steffen
- 2015 Amnesia
as Jo
- 2015 Sense8: Creating the World
as Wolfgang Bogdanovic
- 2015 Sanctuary
as Bruder Krapp
- 2015
- 2015 Storno: Todsicher versichert
as Rupert
- 2014 To Life!
as Jonas
- 2014 Warsaw 44
as Johann Krauss
- 2014 Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
as Bernd Rosemeyer
- 2013 Blutgeld
as Ralf Seifert
- 2013 Der zweite Mann
as Adrian Davids
- 2013 Free Fall
as Kay Engel
- 2012 Forgotten
as Marcus
- 2012 Auslandseinsatz
as Daniel Gerber
- 2012 The German Friend
as Friedrich Burg
- 2012 Partly Sunny
as Tim
- 2012 The Fourth State
as Dima
- 2012 A Family of Three
as Lars Dewenter
- 2011 Playoff
as Thomas
- 2011 Urban Explorer
as Dante / Kris
- 2011 Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg
as Thomas Hafner
- 2010 We Are the Night
as Tom Serner
- 2010
- 2010
- 2009 13 Semester
as 'Momo'
- 2008 Thousand Oceans
as Meikel
- 2008 Run for Your Life!
as Andreas Niedrig
- 2008 The Wave
as Marco
- 2008 Up! Up! To the sky
as Arnold
- 2007 Snipers Valley
as Charly
- 2007 An die Grenze
as Gefreiter Kerner
- 2007 GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln
as Edgar (Polizist), Art. 2
- 2006
- 2006
- 2006 Der Untergang der Pamir
as Carl-Friedrich von Krempin
- 2006 The Red Cockatoo
as Siggi
- 2006 Hallesche Kometen
as Ingo
- 2005 Nachtasyl
as Aljoscha
- 2005 (Feinde)
as Deutscher Soldat
- 2005
- 2004 Before the Fall
as Friedrich Weimer
- 2004 Girls on Top 2
as Flin
- 2003 Lottoschein ins Glück
as Björn Michels
- 2001 Mein Vater und andere Betrüger
as Robertino
- 2001 Girls on Top
as Flin
- 2000 Brennendes Schweigen
as Schappi
- 2000 Bear on the Run
as Tom
- 1999
- 1998
- 1998
- 1997
- 1997
- 1996
- 1995
- 1992
- 1970
Talk shows and appearances (7)
- 2003 ZIBB
2 episodes
- 1999 Deutscher Fernsehpreis
1 episode
- 1992 Morgenmagazin
1 episode
- 1991 DAS!
3 episodes
- 1979 Bavarian Film Awards
1 episode
- 1976 Kölner Treff
2 episodes
- 1964 Grimme Award
1 episode