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.
Known For
Scene of the Crime
DAS!
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
Morgenmagazin
Kölner Treff
In aller Freundschaft
Sense8
Wolffs Revier
All Movies (64)
- Herkunft2027
- Home Stories2026 · as Matze
- Free Fall – Who You Are2026 · as Kay Engel
- Spurlos in Venedig2025 · as Angelo (Gabriel Wendt)
- The Tasters2025 · as Ziegler
- About Luis2025 · as Jens
- Two to One2024 · as Robert
- Ernesto's Island2023 · as Matthias
- Talking About the Weather2022 · as Marcel
- Ein Taxi zur Bescherung2022 · as Jan Olsmer
- The Matrix Resurrections2021 · as Sheperd
- The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea2021 · as Oliver
- Precious Ivie2021 · as Paul
- Der Schneegänger2020 · as Lutz Gehring
- Head Burst2019 · as Markus
- My Mother's Girlfriend2019 · as Jan
- Berlin Syndrome2017 · as Andi Werner
- Icons of Light2016 · as Steffen
- Amnesia2015 · as Jo
- Sense8: Creating the World2015 · as Wolfgang Bogdanovic
- Sanctuary2015 · as Bruder Krapp
- Storno: Todsicher versichert2015 · as Rupert
- To Life!2014 · as Jonas
- Warsaw 442014 · as Johann Krauss
- Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight2014 · as Bernd Rosemeyer
- Blutgeld2013 · as Ralf Seifert
- Der zweite Mann2013 · as Adrian Davids
- Free Fall2013 · as Kay Engel
- Forgotten2012 · as Marcus
- Auslandseinsatz2012 · as Daniel Gerber
- The German Friend2012 · as Friedrich Burg
- Partly Sunny2012 · as Tim
- The Fourth State2012 · as Dima
- A Family of Three2012 · as Lars Dewenter
- Playoff2011 · as Thomas
- Urban Explorer2011 · as Dante / Kris
- Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg2011 · as Thomas Hafner
- We Are the Night2010 · as Tom Serner
- 13 Semester2009 · as 'Momo'
- Thousand Oceans2008 · as Meikel
- Run for Your Life!2008 · as Andreas Niedrig
- The Wave2008 · as Marco
- Up! Up! To the sky2008 · as Arnold
- Snipers Valley2007 · as Charly
- An die Grenze2007 · as Gefreiter Kerner
- GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln2007 · as Edgar (Polizist), Art. 2
- Die Zigarrenkiste2006
- Der Untergang der Pamir2006 · as Carl-Friedrich von Krempin
- The Red Cockatoo2006 · as Siggi
- Hallesche Kometen2006 · as Ingo
- Nachtasyl2005 · as Aljoscha
- (Feinde)2005 · as Deutscher Soldat
- Before the Fall2004 · as Friedrich Weimer
- Girls on Top 22004 · as Flin
- Lottoschein ins Glück2003 · as Björn Michels
- Mein Vater und andere Betrüger2001 · as Robertino
- Girls on Top2001 · as Flin
- Brennendes Schweigen2000 · as Schappi
- Bear on the Run2000 · as Tom
- Ein Weihnachtsmärchen – Wenn alle Herzen schmelzen1999 · as Lukas
- Eine Familie zum Küssen1997
- Golem—
- The Angel Makers—
- Zeit der Wunder – Das Tafelsilber der Deutschen Einheit—
All TV Shows (22)
- Sleeping Dog2023 · as Mike Atlas
- Bonn2023 · as Wolfgang Berns
- World on Fire2019 · as Schmidt
- Sense82015 · as Wolfgang Bogdanow
- In the Face of Crime2010 · as Marek Gorsky
- Der letzte Bulle2010 · as Dennis Paschmann
- Der Kriminalist2006 · as Michael Büssig
- Der Staatsanwalt2005 · as Markus Pohl
- ZIBB2003 · as Self
- German Television Award1999 · as Self
- In aller Freundschaft1998 · as Mirco Venske
- Zwei allein1998 · as Max
- Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP1997 · as Timo
- Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police1996 · as Marcel Freese
- Balko1995 · as Ingo Grabowski
- Wolffs Revier1992 · as Harald Bernhard
- Morgenmagazin1992 · as Self
- DAS!1991 · as Self
- Bavarian Film Awards1979 · as Self
- Kölner Treff1976 · as Self
- Scene of the Crime1970 · as Louis Bürger
- Grimme Award1964 · as Self