Acting credits
76
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Max Riemelt
Acting
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Movies: 56Series: 20
TMDB ID: 38773
IMDb ID: nm0726262
Known for: Acting
Born: January 7, 1984
Age: 42
Place of birth: Berlin, Germany
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1970 - 2026
Years active: 57
Average TMDB rating: 6.45
Wikidata: Q76172
Also known as
Макс Римельт • 馬可斯·尼麥特
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
Movies
Movie credits linked with Max Riemelt.
Home Stories
as Matze
2026 Movie
Free Fall – Who You Are
as Kay Engel
2026 Movie
Spurlos in Venedig
as Angelo (Gabriel Wendt)
2025 Movie
The Tasters
as Ziegler
2025 Movie
About Luis
as Jens
2025 Movie
Two to One
as Robert
2024 Movie
Ernesto's Island
as Matthias
2023 Movie
Talking About the Weather
as Marcel
2022 Movie
Ein Taxi zur Bescherung
as Jan Olsmer
2022 Movie
The Matrix Resurrections
as Sheperd
2021 Movie
The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea
as Oliver
2021 Movie
Precious Ivie
as Paul
2021 Movie
Der Schneegänger
as Lutz Gehring
2020 Movie
Head Burst
as Markus
2019 Movie
My Mother's Girlfriend
as Jan
2019 Movie
Berlin Syndrome
as Andi Werner
2017 Movie
Icons of Light
as Steffen
2016 Movie
Amnesia
as Jo
2015 Movie
Sense8: Creating the World
as Wolfgang Bogdanovic
2015 Movie
Sanctuary
as Bruder Krapp
2015 Movie
Storno: Todsicher versichert
as Rupert
2015 Movie
To Life!
as Jonas
2014 Movie
Warsaw 44
as Johann Krauss
2014 Movie
Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
as Bernd Rosemeyer
2014 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Max Riemelt.
The Grim Ones
as Ben Sandmann • 6 eps
2026 Series
Sleeping Dog
as Mike Atlas • 6 eps
2023 Series
Bonn
as Wolfgang Berns • 6 eps
2023 Series
World on Fire
as Schmidt • 7 eps
2019 Series
Sense8
as Wolfgang Bogdanow • 24 eps
2015 Series
In the Face of Crime
as Marek Gorsky • 10 eps
2010 Series
Der letzte Bulle
as Dennis Paschmann • 1 eps
2010 Series
Der Kriminalist
as Michael Büssig • 1 eps
2006 Series
Der Staatsanwalt
as Markus Pohl • 1 eps
2005 Series
Deutscher Fernsehpreis
as Self • 1 eps
1999 Series
In aller Freundschaft
as Mirco Venske • 1 eps
1998 Series
Zwei allein
as Max • 12 eps
1998 Series
Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP
as Timo • 2 eps
1997 Series
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
as Marcel Freese • 1 eps
1996 Series
Balko
as Ingo Grabowski • 1 eps
1995 Series
Wolffs Revier
as Harald Bernhard • 1 eps
1992 Series
Morgenmagazin
as Self • 1 eps
1992 Series
DAS!
as Self • 3 eps
1991 Series
Kölner Treff
as Self • 2 eps
1976 Series
Scene of the Crime
as Louis Bürger • 1 eps
1970 Series