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

• 2027Herkunft
• 2026Free Fall – Who You Are — Kay Engel
• 2026Home Stories — Matze
• The Grim Ones — Ben Sandmann
• 2025About Luis — Jens
• 2025Spurlos in Venedig — Angelo (Gabriel Wendt)
• 2025The Tasters — Ziegler
• 2024Two to One — Robert
• Bonn — Wolfgang Berns
• 2023Ernesto's Island — Matthias
• Sleeping Dog — Mike Atlas
• 2022Ein Taxi zur Bescherung — Jan Olsmer
• 2022Talking About the Weather — Marcel
• 2021Precious Ivie — Paul
• 2021The Matrix Resurrections — Sheperd
• 2021The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea — Oliver
• 2020Der Schneegänger — Lutz Gehring
• 2019Head Burst — Markus
• 2019My Mother's Girlfriend — Jan
• World on Fire — Schmidt
• 2017Berlin Syndrome — Andi Werner
• 2016Icons of Light — Steffen
• 2015Amnesia — Jo
• 2015Sanctuary — Bruder Krapp
• Sense8 — Wolfgang Bogdanow
• 2015Sense8: Creating the World — Wolfgang Bogdanovic
• 2015Storno: Todsicher versichert — Rupert
• 2014Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight — Bernd Rosemeyer
• 2014To Life! — Jonas
• 2014Warsaw 44 — Johann Krauss
• 2013Blutgeld — Ralf Seifert
• 2013Der zweite Mann — Adrian Davids
• 2013Free Fall — Kay Engel
• 2012A Family of Three — Lars Dewenter
• 2012Auslandseinsatz — Daniel Gerber
• 2012Forgotten — Marcus
• 2012Partly Sunny — Tim
• 2012The Fourth State — Dima
• 2012The German Friend — Friedrich Burg
• 2011Playoff — Thomas
• 2011Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg — Thomas Hafner
• 2011Urban Explorer — Dante / Kris
• Der letzte Bulle — Dennis Paschmann
• In the Face of Crime — Marek Gorsky
• 2010We Are the Night — Tom Serner
• 200913 Semester — 'Momo'
• 2008Run for Your Life! — Andreas Niedrig
• 2008The Wave — Marco
• 2008Thousand Oceans — Meikel
• 2008Up! Up! To the sky — Arnold
• 2007An die Grenze — Gefreiter Kerner
• 2007GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln — Edgar (Polizist), Art. 2
• 2007Snipers Valley — Charly
• Der Kriminalist — Michael Büssig
• 2006Der Untergang der Pamir — Carl-Friedrich von Krempin
• 2006Die Zigarrenkiste
• 2006Hallesche Kometen — Ingo
• 2006The Red Cockatoo — Siggi
• 2005(Feinde) — Deutscher Soldat
• Der Staatsanwalt — Markus Pohl
• 2005Nachtasyl — Aljoscha
• 2004Before the Fall — Friedrich Weimer
• 2004Girls on Top 2 — Flin
• 2003Lottoschein ins Glück — Björn Michels
• 2001Girls on Top — Flin
• 2001Mein Vater und andere Betrüger — Robertino
• 2000Bear on the Run — Tom
• 2000Brennendes Schweigen — Schappi
• 1999Ein Weihnachtsmärchen – Wenn alle Herzen schmelzen — Lukas
• In aller Freundschaft — Mirco Venske
• Zwei allein — Max
• Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP — Timo
• 1997Eine Familie zum Küssen
• Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police — Marcel Freese
• Balko — Ingo Grabowski
• Wolffs Revier — Harald Bernhard
• Scene of the Crime — Louis Bürger
• Golem
• The Angel Makers
• Zeit der Wunder – Das Tafelsilber der Deutschen Einheit

Appearances as themselves (7)

• ZIBB — Self
• Deutscher Fernsehpreis — Self
• Morgenmagazin — Self
• DAS! — Self
• Bavarian Film Awards — Self
• Kölner Treff — Self
• Grimme Award — Self