Christian Berkel
Christian Berkel (born October 28, 1957) is a German actor. Berkel was born in Berlin, Germany. His father was a military doctor. From the age of 14 he lived in Paris where he took drama lessons with Jean-Louis Barrault and Pierre Berlin. He then trained at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin and appeared on stage in Augsburg, Düsseldorf, Munich, Vienna and at the Schiller Theatre, Berlin. He has appeared in many German television productions and secured a major role in the Academy Award-nominated film Downfall as Doctor Ernst-Günther Schenck. He has followed this with significant roles in the Paul Verhoeven directed Dutch movie Black Book and the big budget United States movies Flightplan, Valkyrie (in which he portrayed Colonel Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim) and the Academy Award-nominated Inglourious Basterds. He lives in Berlin with the actress Andrea Sawatzki, with whom he has two sons. He is also fluent in French and English. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christian Berkel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
ActingBirthday
October 28, 1957Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
82Place of birth
Berlin, West Germany [now Germany]
Cast credits
The Experiment
Steinhoff, Häftling Nr. 38
Downfall
Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck
Valkyrie
Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim
Leningrad
Vinkelmeyer
Soundless
Lang
Die Sturmflut
Innensenator Helmut Schmidt
Guys & Balls
Rudolf
Mogadischu
Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt
Flame & Citron
Hoffmann
Inglourious Basterds
Proprietor Eric
The Serpent's Egg
Student
Safe Conduct
Alfred Greven
Der Mann mit dem Fagott
Heinrich Bockelmann
The Last Employee
David Böttcher
Sweet Little Sixteen
Thomas Reiner
Buddy
Dr. Küster
Rossini
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