1984-01-07 ( 41 years old ) in 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.

Movies

About Luis 2025-01-23
Two to One 2024-07-25
Precious Ivie 2021-09-16
Head Burst 2019-10-17
Icons of Light 2016-01-07
Amnesia 2015-08-19
Sanctuary 2015-06-18
To Life! 2014-11-27
Warsaw 44 2014-07-30
Blutgeld 2013-10-28
Free Fall 2013-05-27
Forgotten 2012-12-20
Partly Sunny 2012-09-06
Playoff 2011-11-24
Urban Explorer 2011-09-08
13 Semester 2009-10-29
The Wave 2008-03-13
Snipers Valley 2007-11-10
An die Grenze 2007-07-27
Nachtasyl 2005-10-01
Girls on Top 2 2004-06-17
Girls on Top 2001-03-29