Max Riemelt
Acting
1984-01-07 · 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.
Filmography
Herkunft
2027 · Movie
TheatersHome Stories
2026 · Movie
TheatersFree Fall – Who You Are
2026 · Movie
Spurlos in Venedig
2025 · Movie
The Tasters
2025 · Movie
About Luis
2025 · Movie
Two to One
2024 · Movie
Sleeping Dog
2023 · Series
Ernesto's Island
2023 · Movie
Bonn
2023 · Series
Talking About the Weather
2022 · Movie
Ein Taxi zur Bescherung
2022 · Movie
The Matrix Resurrections
2021 · Movie
The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea
2021 · Movie
Precious Ivie
2021 · Movie
Der Schneegänger
2020 · Movie
Head Burst
2019 · Movie
World on Fire
2019 · Series
My Mother's Girlfriend
2019 · Movie
Berlin Syndrome
2017 · Movie
Icons of Light
2016 · Movie
Amnesia
2015 · Movie
Sense8: Creating the World
2015 · Movie
Sanctuary
2015 · Movie
Sense8
2015 · Series
Storno: Todsicher versichert
2015 · Movie
To Life!
2014 · Movie
Warsaw 44
2014 · Movie
Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
2014 · Movie
Blutgeld
2013 · Movie
Der zweite Mann
2013 · Movie
Free Fall
2013 · Movie
Forgotten
2012 · Movie
Auslandseinsatz
2012 · Movie
The German Friend
2012 · Movie
Partly Sunny
2012 · Movie
The Fourth State
2012 · Movie
A Family of Three
2012 · Movie
Playoff
2011 · Movie
Urban Explorer
2011 · Movie
Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg
2011 · Movie
We Are the Night
2010 · Movie
In the Face of Crime
2010 · Series
Der letzte Bulle
2010 · Series
13 Semester
2009 · Movie
Thousand Oceans
2008 · Movie
Run for Your Life!
2008 · Movie
The Wave
2008 · Movie
Up! Up! To the sky
2008 · Movie
Snipers Valley
2007 · Movie
An die Grenze
2007 · Movie
GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln
2007 · Movie
Die Zigarrenkiste
2006 · Movie
Der Kriminalist
2006 · Series
Der Untergang der Pamir
2006 · Movie
The Red Cockatoo
2006 · Movie
Hallesche Kometen
2006 · Movie
Nachtasyl
2005 · Movie
(Feinde)
2005 · Movie
Der Staatsanwalt
2005 · Series
Before the Fall
2004 · Movie
Girls on Top 2
2004 · Movie
ZIBB
2003 · Series
Lottoschein ins Glück
2003 · Movie
Mein Vater und andere Betrüger
2001 · Movie
Girls on Top
2001 · Movie
Brennendes Schweigen
2000 · Movie
Bear on the Run
2000 · Movie
Ein Weihnachtsmärchen – Wenn alle Herzen schmelzen
1999 · Movie
German Television Award
1999 · Series
In aller Freundschaft
1998 · Series
Zwei allein
1998 · Series
Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP
1997 · Series
Eine Familie zum Küssen
1997 · Movie
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
1996 · Series
Balko
1995 · Series
Wolffs Revier
1992 · Series
Morgenmagazin
1992 · Series
DAS!
1991 · Series
Bavarian Film Awards
1979 · Series
Kölner Treff
1976 · Series
Scene of the Crime
1970 · Series
Grimme Award
1964 · Series
Zeit der Wunder – Das Tafelsilber der Deutschen Einheit
Movie
The Angel Makers
Movie
Golem
Movie