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Max Riemelt

1984-01-07

The 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.

Max Riemelt in

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The Matrix Resurrections

6.405 average rating
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The Wave

7.5 average rating
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Before the Fall

7.032 average rating
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Berlin Syndrome

6 average rating
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Warsaw 44

6.8 average rating
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Free Fall

7.695 average rating
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Girls on Top 2

4.9 average rating
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Urban Explorer

5.2 average rating
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Girls on Top

5.1 average rating
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We Are the Night

6.1 average rating
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Amnesia

5.5 average rating
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Sense8: Creating the World

7.8 average rating
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Partly Sunny

6.2 average rating
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The Fourth State

5.8 average rating
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Forgotten

5.8 average rating
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Sanctuary

7.4 average rating
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Head Burst

6.6 average rating
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Ernesto’s Island

7.2 average rating
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Two to One

6.7 average rating
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Der Untergang der Pamir

7 average rating