Max Riemelt

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Acting

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.

Filmography

• Herkunft (2027)
• Home Stories (2026)
• Free Fall – Who You Are (2026)
• Spurlos in Venedig (2025)
• The Tasters (2025)
• About Luis (2025)
• Two to One (2024)
• Ernesto's Island (2023)
• Talking About the Weather (2022)
• Ein Taxi zur Bescherung (2022)
• The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
• The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea (2021)
• Precious Ivie (2021)
• Der Schneegänger (2020)
• Head Burst (2019)
• My Mother's Girlfriend (2019)
• Berlin Syndrome (2017)
• Icons of Light (2016)
• Amnesia (2015)
• Sense8: Creating the World (2015)
• Sanctuary (2015)
• Storno: Todsicher versichert (2015)
• To Life! (2014)
• Warsaw 44 (2014)
• Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight (2014)
• Blutgeld (2013)
• Der zweite Mann (2013)
• Free Fall (2013)
• Forgotten (2012)
• Auslandseinsatz (2012)
• The German Friend (2012)
• Partly Sunny (2012)
• The Fourth State (2012)
• A Family of Three (2012)
• Playoff (2011)
• Urban Explorer (2011)
• Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg (2011)
• We Are the Night (2010)
• 13 Semester (2009)
• Thousand Oceans (2008)
• Run for Your Life! (2008)
• The Wave (2008)
• Up! Up! To the sky (2008)
• Snipers Valley (2007)
• An die Grenze (2007)
• GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln (2007)
• Die Zigarrenkiste (2006)
• Der Untergang der Pamir (2006)
• The Red Cockatoo (2006)
• Hallesche Kometen (2006)
• Nachtasyl (2005)
• (Feinde) (2005)
• Before the Fall (2004)
• Girls on Top 2 (2004)
• Lottoschein ins Glück (2003)
• Mein Vater und andere Betrüger (2001)
• Girls on Top (2001)
• Brennendes Schweigen (2000)
• Bear on the Run (2000)
• Ein Weihnachtsmärchen – Wenn alle Herzen schmelzen (1999)
• Eine Familie zum Küssen (1997)
• Zeit der Wunder – Das Tafelsilber der Deutschen Einheit
• The Angel Makers
• Golem