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 wellknown 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 Riemelts 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 Gansels 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