Max Riemelt

Max Riemelt is an actor I came to through Sense8, where his Wolfgang carried a wounded intensity I couldn't shake. What I appreciate is that Germany already knew him long before Netflix did, his collaborations with Dennis Gansel and Dominik Graf on films like Before the Fall and Free Fall built a serious reputation at home. The award trail backs it up, from the Bavarian Film Awards to a French Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. Born in East Berlin in 1984, he's a reminder that international breakout roles often rest on years of unglamorous, country-specific craft most viewers never see.

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Name (English)

Max Riemelt

Name (Japanese)

マックス・リーメルト

Reading

まっくす・りーめると

Born

January 7, 1984 (age 42)

Origin

East Berlin, German Democratic Republic

Occupation

actor / film actor / television actor / speaker

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rat

Awards & achievements

• 2006 Bavarian Film Awards
• 2008 Undine Award
• 2010 Deutscher Fernsehpreis
• 2011 Grimme-Preis
• 2013 Günter Rohrbach film award
• 2017 Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
• 2019 Hof International Film Festival
• Jupiter Awards

• Official sitehttps://www.maxriemelt.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/MaxRiemelt
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Riemelt
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76172

Tags

• actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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