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.
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Movies (44)
Spurlos in Venedig
as Angelo (Gabriel Wendt)
2025
The Tasters
as Ziegler
2025
About Luis
as Jens
2025
Two to One
as Robert
2024
Ernesto’s Island
as Matthias
2023
Talking About the Weather
as Marcel
2022
Ein Taxi zur Bescherung
as Jan Olsmer
2022
The Matrix Resurrections
as Sheperd
2021
The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea
as Oliver
2021
Precious Ivie
as Paul
2021
Der Schneegänger
as Lutz Gehring
2020
Head Burst
as Markus
2019
My Mother's Girlfriend
as Jan
2019
Berlin Syndrome
as Andi Werner
2017
Icons of Light
as Steffen
2016
Amnesia
as Jo
2015
Sense8: Creating the World
as Wolfgang Bogdanovic
2015
Sanctuary
as Bruder Krapp
2015
Storno: Todsicher versichert
as Rupert
2015
To Life!
as Jonas
2014
Warsaw 44
as Johann Krauss
2014
Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
as Bernd Rosemeyer
2014
Blutgeld
as Ralf Seifert
2013
Der zweite Mann
as Adrian Davids
2013
Free Fall
as Kay Engel
2013
Forgotten
as Marcus
2012
Auslandseinsatz
as Daniel Gerber
2012
The German Friend
as Friedrich Burg
2012
Partly Sunny
as Tim
2012
The Fourth State
as Dima
2012
A Family of Three
as Lars Dewenter
2012
Playoff
as Thomas
2011
Urban Explorer
as Dante / Kris
2011
Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg
as Thomas Hafner
2011
We Are the Night
as Tom Serner
2010
13 Semester
as 'Momo'
2009
Thousand Oceans
as Meikel
2008
Run for Your Life!
as Andreas Niedrig
2008
The Wave
as Marco
2008
Up! Up! To the sky
as Arnold
2008
Snipers Valley
as Charly
2007
An die Grenze
as Gefreiter Kerner
2007
GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln
as Edgar (Polizist), Art. 2
2007
Die Zigarrenkiste
2006
