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’.
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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 (Cast)
The Matrix Resurrections
Urban Explorer
Free Fall
The Tasters
The Wave
Before the Fall
Hallesche Kometen
13 Semester
Snipers Valley
Amnesia
We Are the Night
Playoff
Talking About the Weather
The German Friend
Thousand Oceans
Blutgeld
Girls on Top
The Red Cockatoo
Der zweite Mann
Der Schneegänger
Storno: Todsicher versichert
Girls on Top 2
Sanctuary
An die Grenze
Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
Brennendes Schweigen
The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea
Head Burst
Der Untergang der Pamir
Up! Up! To the sky
Bear on the Run
Lottoschein ins Glück
My Mother's Girlfriend
Auslandseinsatz
Two to One
Forgotten
The Fourth State
Ernesto’s Island
Precious Ivie
About Luis
To Life!
Berlin Syndrome
Icons of Light
Warsaw 44
Ein Weihnachtsmärchen – Wenn alle Herzen schmelzen