Max Riemelt
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
Movie
The Matrix Resurrections
as Sheperd
2021
Movie
The Wave
as Marco
2008
TV
Sense8
as Wolfgang Bogdanow
2015
Movie
Free Fall
as Kay Engel
2013
Movie
Berlin Syndrome
as Andi Werner
2017
Movie
Before the Fall
as Friedrich Weimer
2004
Movie
We Are the Night
as Tom Serner
2010
Movie
Warsaw 44
as Johann Krauss
2014
Movie
The Tasters
as Ziegler
2025
TV
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
as Marcel Freese
1996
TV
Scene of the Crime
as Louis Bürger
1970
Movie
Girls on Top
as Flin
2001
Movie
Urban Explorer
as Dante / Kris
2011
Movie
Sense8: Creating the World
as Wolfgang Bogdanovic
2015
Movie
Sanctuary
as Bruder Krapp
2015
TV
World on Fire
as Schmidt
2019
Movie
Girls on Top 2
as Flin
2004
TV
Sleeping Dog
as Mike Atlas
2023
Movie
The Fourth State
as Dima
2012
Movie
Two to One
as Robert
2024
Movie
Partly Sunny
as Tim
2012
Movie
Amnesia
as Jo
2015
Movie
13 Semester
as 'Momo'
2009
Movie
Forgotten
as Marcus
2012