Acting credits
112
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Christian Berkel
Acting
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Movies: 57Series: 55Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 7803
IMDb ID: nm0075321
Known for: Acting
Born: October 28, 1957
Age: 68
Place of birth: Berlin, West Germany [now Germany]
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1948 - 2026
Years active: 79
Average TMDB rating: 6.46
Wikidata: Q60996
Other jobs
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Biography
Christian Berkel (born October 28, 1957) is a German actor. Berkel was born in Berlin, Germany. His father was a military doctor. From the age of 14 he lived in Paris where he took drama lessons with Jean-Louis Barrault and Pierre Berlin. He then trained at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin and appeared on stage in Augsburg, Düsseldorf, Munich, Vienna and at the Schiller Theatre, Berlin. He has appeared in many German television productions and secured a major role in the Academy Award-nominated film Downfall as Doctor Ernst-Günther Schenck. He has followed this with significant roles in the Paul Verhoeven directed Dutch movie Black Book and the big budget United States movies Flightplan, Valkyrie (in which he portrayed Colonel Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim) and the Academy Award-nominated Inglourious Basterds. He lives in Berlin with the actress Andrea Sawatzki, with whom he has two sons. He is also fluent in French and English.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Christian Berkel.
Nov 5
as Dr. Maximilian Samuel
Block 10
2026 • Movie
as Gregor Basil
Ein Taxi für zwei
2025 • Movie
as Adam Lansky
Entführen für Anfänger
2024 • Movie
as Andreas
Querschuss
2024 • Movie
as Sania
The Blond Boy from the Casbah
2023 • Movie
as Erik Behr
Black Box
2023 • Movie
as Narrator (voice)
Unser Verein: "Eisern Union!"
2022 • Movie
as Self
Die Akte Oppenheimer - Und ewig grüßt der Antisemit
2022 • Movie
as Simon Wiesenthal
A Retribution
2022 • Movie
as Magnus Mittendorf
Trügerische Sicherheit
2022 • Movie
as Bertram Dinkler
Sportabzeichen für Anfänger
2021 • Movie
as Interviewer
Enfant Terrible
2020 • Movie
as Louis Ziffer
The Magic Kids: Three Unlikely Heroes
2020 • Movie
as Mark
What Doesn't Kill Us
2018 • Movie
as Christoph
Scheidung für Anfänger
2018 • Movie
as Robert
Elle
2016 • Movie
as Michael Dithardt
Ein gefährliches Angebot
2016 • Movie
as Otto Preminger
Trumbo
2015 • Movie
as Udo
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
2015 • Movie
as Philip
Anti-Social
2015 • Movie
as Herr Hegemann
Dreamgirls
2015 • Movie
as Ernst Udet
Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
2014 • Movie
as Pilot
Business as Usual - Der Prophet fliegt mit
2014 • Movie
as Dr. Küster
Buddy
2013 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Christian Berkel.
as Roland Murnau • 7 eps
Hijack
2023 • Series
as Self • 11 eps
Voices of Liberation
2022 • Series
as Minister Hardenberg • 5 eps
Furia
2021 • Series
as Heinrich von Gems • 6 eps
Die verlorene Tochter
2020 • Series
as Narrator • 3 eps
Realm of the Volga
2019 • Series
as Steffen Marquardt • 3 eps
Criminal: Germany
2019 • Series
as Richard Diemer • 7 eps
Beat
2018 • Series
as Erich Kupka • 1 eps
In Wahrheit
2017 • Series
as Jonathan Roth • 2 eps
Redemption Road
2017 • Series
as self • 1 eps
Ringlstetter
2016 • Series
as Amor • 1 eps
NSU German History X
2016 • Series
as Self • 5 eps
Quizduell-Olymp
2015 • Series
as Self • 8 eps
Wer weiß denn sowas?
2015 • Series
as Self • 2 eps
Quizduell
2014 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
MDR um 4
2014 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Grill den Henssler
2013 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Roche & Böhmermann
2012 • Series
as Heinrich Bockelmann • 2 eps
The Man with the Bassoon
2011 • Series
as Self • 3 eps
Klein gegen Groß - Das unglaubliche Duell
2011 • Series
as Self • 2 eps
Markus Lanz
2008 • Series
as Hauptkommissar Bruno Schumann • 109 eps
Der Kriminalist
2006 • Series
as Eduard 'Ted' Fröhlich • 2 eps
Helen, Fred und Ted
2006 • Series
as Helmut Schmidt • 2 eps
Die Sturmflut
2006 • Series
as Self • 2 eps
maybrit illner
1999 • Series