Acting
Max Riemelt
DE, EN, FR, PL cinema · 65 credits
Born
7 January 1984 (age 42)
Birthplace
Berlin, Germany
Also known as Макс Римельт · 馬可斯·尼麥特
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.
Known for
Filmography
Home Stories
as Matze
Free Fall – Who You Are
as Kay Engel
About Luis
as Jens
The Tasters
as Ziegler
Spurlos in Venedig
as Angelo (Gabriel Wendt)
Two to One
as Robert
Ernesto's Island
as Matthias
Ein Taxi zur Bescherung
as Jan Olsmer
Precious Ivie
as Paul
The Matrix Resurrections
as Sheperd
Der Schneegänger
as Lutz Gehring
Head Burst
as Markus
Berlin Syndrome
as Andi Werner
Icons of Light
as Steffen
Sanctuary
as Bruder Krapp
Amnesia
as Jo
Sense8: Creating the World
as Wolfgang Bogdanovic
Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
as Bernd Rosemeyer
Warsaw 44
as Johann Krauss
To Life!
as Jonas
Free Fall
as Kay Engel
Der zweite Mann
as Adrian Davids
Blutgeld
as Ralf Seifert
The Fourth State
as Dima
Forgotten
as Marcus
Partly Sunny
as Tim
The German Friend
as Friedrich Burg
Auslandseinsatz
as Daniel Gerber
A Family of Three
as Lars Dewenter
Urban Explorer
as Dante / Kris
Playoff
as Thomas
Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg
as Thomas Hafner
We Are the Night
as Tom Serner
13 Semester
as 'Momo'
Run for Your Life!
as Andreas Niedrig
The Wave
as Marco
Thousand Oceans
as Meikel
Snipers Valley
as Charly
An die Grenze
as Gefreiter Kerner
GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln
as Edgar (Polizist), Art. 2
The Red Cockatoo
as Siggi
Der Untergang der Pamir
as Carl-Friedrich von Krempin
Nachtasyl
2005
Nachtasyl
as Aljoscha
(Feinde)
2005
(Feinde)
as Deutscher Soldat
Girls on Top 2
as Flin
Before the Fall
as Friedrich Weimer
Lottoschein ins Glück
as Björn Michels
Girls on Top
as Flin
Brennendes Schweigen
as Schappi
