Max Riemelt

Max Riemelt is a German actor. Born in East Berlin and raised in Berlin, he began acting on German television at age 13 and later landed his first lead in Zwei allein, a ZDF Christmas series. He gained wide attention in Germany for the World War II drama Before the Fall (2004), winning Best Actor at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Riemelt appeared in every Dennis Gansel feature from Mädchen, Mädchen to The Fourth State and often collaborated with Dominik Graf, including the 2010 crime series In the Face of Crime. He starred in the 2013 romance Free Fall, then from 2015 to 2018 starred in the Wachowskis' Netflix series Sense8 as Wolfgang Bogdanow, a safe cracker. His work opposite Teresa Palmer in Berlin Syndrome (2017) drew praise after the film premiered at Sundance, and he later joined The Matrix Resurrections (2021). In 2023 he had a leading role in Bonn, a political drama.