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.
85 acting credits
Acting · 85
Scene of the Crime
1970
ZIBB
2003
DAS!
1991
Morgenmagazin
1992
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
1996
Kölner Treff
1976
Wolffs Revier
1992
In aller Freundschaft
1998
Sense8
2015
Der Staatsanwalt
2005
Der Kriminalist
2006
Grimme Award
1964
Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP
1997
Der letzte Bulle
2010
The Matrix Resurrections
2021
Bavarian Film Awards
1979
Balko
1995
German Television Award
1999
World on Fire
2019
The Wave
2008
Before the Fall
2004
Sleeping Dog
2023
In the Face of Crime
2010
The Tasters
2025
Berlin Syndrome
2017
Bonn
2023
Free Fall
2013
Two to One
2024
We Are the Night
2010
Home Stories
2026
Sense8: Creating the World
2015
Warsaw 44
2014
Amnesia
2015
Girls on Top
2001
Girls on Top 2
2004
Snipers Valley
2007
My Mother's Girlfriend
2019
The Fourth State
2012
The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea
2021
Spurlos in Venedig
2025
Zwei allein
1998
Urban Explorer
2011
Head Burst
2019
Talking About the Weather
2022
Run for Your Life!
2008
Hallesche Kometen
2006
Der Schneegänger
2020
Partly Sunny
2012
Up! Up! To the sky
2008
An die Grenze
2007
To Life!
2014
Playoff
2011
Sanctuary
2015
Ein Taxi zur Bescherung
2022
Der Untergang der Pamir
2006
13 Semester
2009
The Red Cockatoo
2006
Forgotten
2012
Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
2014
GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln
2007
Mein Vater und andere Betrüger
2001
Blutgeld
2013
Icons of Light
2016
Precious Ivie
2021
The Angel Makers
—
Der zweite Mann
2013
Nachtasyl
2005
About Luis
2025
Lottoschein ins Glück
2003
Bear on the Run
2000
Thousand Oceans
2008
A Family of Three
2012
Storno: Todsicher versichert
2015
Auslandseinsatz
2012
Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg
2011
Ein Weihnachtsmärchen – Wenn alle Herzen schmelzen
1999
The German Friend
2012
(Feinde)
2005
Golem
—
Brennendes Schweigen
2000
Ernesto's Island
2023
Herkunft
—
Zeit der Wunder – Das Tafelsilber der Deutschen Einheit
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Eine Familie zum Küssen
1997
Die Zigarrenkiste
2006