Max Riemelt
Acting • Born 1984-01-07
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.
Filmography
85 credits
Run for Your Life!
Movie • 2008
Andreas Niedrig
Snipers Valley
Movie • 2007
Charly
Girls on Top 2
Movie • 2004
Flin
Precious Ivie
Movie • 2021
Paul
The Red Cockatoo
Movie • 2006
Siggi
The Wave
Movie • 2008
Marco
Der Untergang der Pamir
Movie • 2006
Carl-Friedrich von Krempin
Up! Up! To the sky
Movie • 2008
Arnold
An die Grenze
Movie • 2007
Gefreiter Kerner
Girls on Top
Movie • 2001
Flin
Before the Fall
Movie • 2004
Friedrich Weimer
13 Semester
Movie • 2009
'Momo'
We Are the Night
Movie • 2010
Tom Serner
Urban Explorer
Movie • 2011
Dante / Kris
The Fourth State
Movie • 2012
Dima
Hallesche Kometen
Movie • 2006
Ingo
Playoff
Movie • 2011
Thomas
Forgotten
Movie • 2012
Marcus
The German Friend
Movie • 2012
Friedrich Burg
Partly Sunny
Movie • 2012
Tim
Auslandseinsatz
Movie • 2012
Daniel Gerber
Free Fall
Movie • 2013
Kay Engel
A Family of Three
Movie • 2012
Lars Dewenter
Bear on the Run
Movie • 2000
Tom
Talking About the Weather
Movie • 2022
Marcel
Thousand Oceans
Movie • 2008
Meikel
Der zweite Mann
Movie • 2013
Adrian Davids
Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
Movie • 2014
Bernd Rosemeyer
Ein Weihnachtsmärchen – Wenn alle Herzen schmelzen
Movie • 1999
Lukas
Two to One
Movie • 2024
Robert
Lottoschein ins Glück
Movie • 2003
Björn Michels
Mein Vater und andere Betrüger
Movie • 2001
Robertino
Ernesto's Island
Movie • 2023
Matthias
Blutgeld
Movie • 2013
Ralf Seifert
Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg
Movie • 2011
Thomas Hafner
Sanctuary
Movie • 2015
Bruder Krapp
Amnesia
Movie • 2015
Jo
Storno: Todsicher versichert
Movie • 2015
Rupert
Warsaw 44
Movie • 2014
Johann Krauss
Ein Taxi zur Bescherung
Movie • 2022
Jan Olsmer
To Life!
Movie • 2014
Jonas
Sense8: Creating the World
Movie • 2015
Wolfgang Bogdanovic
Berlin Syndrome
Movie • 2017
Andi Werner
Brennendes Schweigen
Movie • 2000
Schappi
Icons of Light
Movie • 2016
Steffen
Eine Familie zum Küssen
Movie • 1997
Home Stories
Movie • 2026
Matze
Golem
Movie
The Angel Makers
Movie
GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln
Movie • 2007
Edgar (Polizist), Art. 2
Nachtasyl
Movie • 2005
Aljoscha
My Mother's Girlfriend
Movie • 2019
Jan
Head Burst
Movie • 2019
Markus
Der Schneegänger
Movie • 2020
Lutz Gehring
The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea
Movie • 2021
Oliver
The Matrix Resurrections
Movie • 2021
Sheperd
About Luis
Movie • 2025
Jens
The Tasters
Movie • 2025
Ziegler
Die Zigarrenkiste
Movie • 2006
Spurlos in Venedig
Movie • 2025
Angelo (Gabriel Wendt)
(Feinde)
Movie • 2005
Deutscher Soldat
Sense8 Christmas Special
Movie • 2016
Wolfgang Bogdanow
Zeit der Wunder – Das Tafelsilber der Deutschen Einheit
Movie
Wolffs Revier
TV • 1992
Harald Bernhard
Der Kriminalist
TV • 2006
Michael Büssig
In the Face of Crime
TV • 2010
Marek Gorsky
Der Staatsanwalt
TV • 2005
Markus Pohl
Sense8
TV • 2015
Wolfgang Bogdanow
Der letzte Bulle
TV • 2010
Dennis Paschmann
Sleeping Dog
TV • 2023
Mike Atlas
Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP
TV • 1997
Timo
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
TV • 1996
Marcel Freese
Balko
TV • 1995
Ingo Grabowski
In aller Freundschaft
TV • 1998
Mirco Venske
German Television Award
TV • 1999
Self
Grimme Award
TV • 1964
Self
Bavarian Film Awards
TV • 1979
Self
Zwei allein
TV • 1998
Max
Bonn
TV • 2023
Wolfgang Berns
Kölner Treff
TV • 1976
Self
Scene of the Crime
TV • 1970
Louis Bürger
DAS!
TV • 1991
Self
World on Fire
TV • 2019
Schmidt
ZIBB
TV • 2003
Self
Morgenmagazin
TV • 1992
Self