Max Riemelt
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.
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ActingBirthday
January 7, 1984Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
56Place of birth
Berlin, GermanyAlso known as
Макс Римельт, 馬可斯·尼麥特Cast credits
Run for Your Life!
Andreas NiedrigSnipers Valley
CharlyGirls on Top 2
FlinThe Red Cockatoo
SiggiThe Wave
MarcoDer Untergang der Pamir
Carl-Friedrich von KrempinAn die Grenze
Gefreiter KernerGirls on Top
FlinBefore the Fall
Friedrich Weimer13 Semester
'Momo'We Are the Night
Tom SernerUrban Explorer
Dante / KrisThe Fourth State
DimaHallesche Kometen
IngoPlayoff
ThomasForgotten
MarcusPartly Sunny
TimThe German Friend
Friedrich BurgAuslandseinsatz
Daniel GerberFree Fall
Kay Engel