
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.
Acting (52 movies)

Run for Your Life!
2008

Snipers Valley
2007

Girls on Top 2
2004

Precious Ivie
2021

The Red Cockatoo
2006

The Wave
2008

Der Untergang der Pamir
2006

An die Grenze
2007

Girls on Top
2001

Before the Fall
2004

13 Semester
2009

We Are the Night
2010

Urban Explorer
2011

The Fourth State
2012

Hallesche Kometen
2006

Playoff
2011

Forgotten
2012

The German Friend
2012

Partly Sunny
2012

Auslandseinsatz
2012

Free Fall
2013

A Family of Three
2012

Bear on the Run
2000

Talking About the Weather
2022

Thousand Oceans
2008

Der zweite Mann
2013

Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
2014

Ein Weihnachtsmärchen – Wenn alle Herzen schmelzen
1999

Two to One
2024

Lottoschein ins Glück
2003

Ernesto’s Island
2023

Blutgeld
2013

Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg
2011

Sanctuary
2015

Amnesia
2015

Storno: Todsicher versichert
2015

Warsaw 44
2014

Ein Taxi zur Bescherung
2022

To Life!
2014

Sense8: Creating the World
2015

Berlin Syndrome
2017

Brennendes Schweigen
2000

Icons of Light
2016

GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln
2007

My Mother's Girlfriend
2019

Head Burst
2019

Der Schneegänger
2020

The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea
2021

The Matrix Resurrections
2021

About Luis
2025

The Tasters
2025

Die Zigarrenkiste
2006
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