Max Riemelt
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1984-01-07
Place of Birth
Berlin, Germany
Max Riemelt
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. 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.
Also Known For
Run for Your Life!
Apr 24, 2008
Snipers Valley
Nov 10, 2007
Girls on Top 2
Jun 17, 2004
Precious Ivie
Sep 16, 2021
The Red Cockatoo
Feb 16, 2006
The Wave
Mar 13, 2008
Der Untergang der Pamir
Oct 08, 2006
Up! Up! To the sky
Jan 17, 2008
An die Grenze
Jul 27, 2007
Girls on Top
Mar 29, 2001
Before the Fall
Jul 04, 2004
13 Semester
Oct 29, 2009
We Are the Night
Oct 28, 2010
Urban Explorer
Sep 08, 2011
The Fourth State
Mar 08, 2012
Hallesche Kometen
Jan 19, 2006
Playoff
Nov 24, 2011
Forgotten
Dec 20, 2012
The German Friend
Sep 18, 2012
Partly Sunny
Sep 06, 2012
Auslandseinsatz
Oct 18, 2012
Free Fall
May 27, 2013
A Family of Three
Jan 10, 2012
Bear on the Run
Apr 06, 2000
Talking About the Weather
Sep 16, 2022
Thousand Oceans
Oct 02, 2008
Der zweite Mann
Oct 25, 2013
Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
Mar 30, 2014
Ein Weihnachtsmärchen – Wenn alle Herzen schmelzen
Dec 15, 1999
Two to One
Jul 25, 2024
Lottoschein ins Glück
Jun 13, 2003
Mein Vater und andere Betrüger
Nov 09, 2001
Ernesto's Island
May 18, 2023
Blutgeld
Oct 28, 2013
Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg
Mar 14, 2011
Sanctuary
Jun 18, 2015
Amnesia
Aug 19, 2015
Storno: Todsicher versichert
May 20, 2015
Warsaw 44
Sep 19, 2014
Ein Taxi zur Bescherung
Aug 27, 2022
To Life!
Nov 27, 2014
Sense8: Creating the World
Aug 01, 2015
Berlin Syndrome
Apr 20, 2017
Brennendes Schweigen
Dec 01, 2000
Icons of Light
Jan 07, 2016
Eine Familie zum Küssen
Jan 01, 1997
Home Stories
Feb 18, 2026
Golem
The Angel Makers
GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln
May 31, 2007
Nachtasyl
Oct 01, 2005
My Mother's Girlfriend
Mar 13, 2019
Head Burst
Oct 17, 2019
Der Schneegänger
Mar 05, 2020
The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea
Sep 30, 2021
The Matrix Resurrections
Dec 16, 2021
About Luis
Jan 23, 2025
The Tasters
Mar 27, 2025
Die Zigarrenkiste
Dec 10, 2006
Spurlos in Venedig
Dec 06, 2025
(Feinde)
Jan 13, 2005
Sense8 Christmas Special
Dec 23, 2016
Zeit der Wunder – Das Tafelsilber der Deutschen Einheit
Wolffs Revier
Sep 17, 1992
Der Kriminalist
Dec 08, 2006
In the Face of Crime
Apr 27, 2010
Der Staatsanwalt
Jan 10, 2005
Sense8
Jun 05, 2015
Der letzte Bulle
Apr 12, 2010
Sleeping Dog
Jun 22, 2023
Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP
Jan 02, 1997
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
Mar 12, 1996
Balko
Mar 19, 1995
In aller Freundschaft
Oct 26, 1998
German Television Award
Oct 02, 1999
Grimme Award
Jan 16, 1964
Bavarian Film Awards
Dec 01, 1979
Zwei allein
Jan 01, 1998
Bonn
Jan 17, 2023
Kölner Treff
Jan 25, 1976
Scene of the Crime
Nov 29, 1970
DAS!
Jan 02, 1991
World on Fire
Sep 29, 2019
ZIBB
Nov 10, 2003
