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Christian Berkel

Christian Berkel

Acting1957Berlin, West Germany [now Germany]

Biography

Christian Berkel (born October 28, 1957) is a German actor.

Berkel was born in Berlin, Germany. His father was a military doctor.

From the age of 14 he lived in Paris where he took drama lessons with Jean-Louis Barrault and Pierre Berlin. He then trained at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin and appeared on stage in Augsburg, Düsseldorf, Munich, Vienna and at the Schiller Theatre, Berlin.

He has appeared in many German television productions and secured a major role in the Academy Award-nominated film Downfall as Doctor Ernst-Günther Schenck. He has followed this with significant roles in the Paul Verhoeven directed Dutch movie Black Book and the big budget United States movies Flightplan, Valkyrie (in which he portrayed Colonel Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim) and the Academy Award-nominated Inglourious Basterds.

He lives in Berlin with the actress Andrea Sawatzki, with whom he has two sons. He is also fluent in French and English.

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Acting History

Future
Block 10
as Dr. Maximilian Samuel
2026
Hijack
TVas Roland Murnau• 8 eps
2025
Ein Taxi für zwei
as Gregor Basil
2024
Querschuss
as Andreas
Wer weiß denn sowas?
TVas Self• 1 eps
Querschuss
Producer
2023
Black Box
as Erik Behr
2022
A Retribution
as Simon Wiesenthal
Trügerische Sicherheit
as Magnus Mittendorf
2021
Furia
TVas Minister Hardenberg• 5 eps
2020
Enfant Terrible
as Interviewer
MDR um 4
TVas Self• 1 eps
Ringlstetter
TVas self• 1 eps
Die verlorene Tochter
TVas Heinrich von Gems
2019
Abendshow
TVas Self• 1 eps
Criminal: Germany
TVas Steffen Marquardt• 3 eps
Markus Lanz
TVas Self• 2 eps
Realm of the Volga
TVas Narrator
2018
ZIBB
TVas Self• 3 eps
Beat
TVas Richard Diemer• 7 eps
2017
Redemption Road
TVas Jonathan Roth
In Wahrheit
TVas Erich Kupka
MDR um 11
TVas Self
2016
Elle
as Robert
Ein gefährliches Angebot
as Michael Dithardt
Grill den Henssler
TVas Self• 1 eps
2015
Dreamgirls
as Herr Hegemann
Trumbo
as Otto Preminger
Anti-Social
as Philip
Quizduell-Olymp
TVas Self• 5 eps
Quizduell
TVas Self• 2 eps
2014
Ein starkes Team
TVas Gerhard Brock• 1 eps
Dalli Dalli
TVas Self• 1 eps
2013
Buddy
as Dr. Küster
2012
Günther Jauch
TVas Self• 1 eps
2011
The Last Employee
as David Böttcher
Das dunkle Nest
as Pfarrer Dr. Gabriel Reinberg
Menschen der Woche
TVas Self• 1 eps
ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
TVas Self• 2 eps
Volle Kanne
TVas Self• 5 eps
Der Mann mit dem Fagott
TVas Heinrich Bockelmann
2010
Morgenmagazin
TVas self• 1 eps
Kölner Treff
TVas Self• 5 eps
2009
Leningrad
as Vinkelmeyer
Inglourious Basterds
as Proprietor Eric
Im Dialog
TVas self• 1 eps
DAS!
TVas Self• 4 eps
Riverboat
TVas Self• 2 eps
maybrit illner
TVas Self• 2 eps
Wetten, dass..?
TVas Self• 1 eps
Goldene Kamera
TVas Self• 2 eps
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
TVas Self• 1 eps
2008
Mogadischu
as Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt
Miracle at St. Anna
as Captain Eichholz
Valkyrie
as Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim
Flame & Citron
as Hoffmann
Haber
as Fritz Shimon Haber
Thadeusz
TVas self• 1 eps
Zimmer frei!
TVas Self• 1 eps
2007
Der andere Junge
as Jakob Wagner
Dickes B
TVas Self
2006
Black Book
as General Käutner
Helen, Fred und Ted
as Eduard 'Ted' Fröhlich
Die Sturmflut
TVas Helmut Schmidt
2005
Flightplan
as Mortuary Director
Der Vater meiner Schwester
as Dr. Klaus Merbold
Hexenküsse
as Herbert Zauner
NDR Talk Show
TVas Self• 5 eps
Ein Herz für Kinder
TVas Self• 1 eps
Der Kriminalist
TVas Hauptkommissar Bruno Schumann• 109 eps
Scene of the Crime
TVas Uwe Pfandler / Rainer Wenisch / Alfred Waller / Erik Steinbeck / Doc Decker• 1 eps
Star-Biathlon
TVas Self
2004
Downfall
as Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck
Guys & Balls
as Rudolf
Soundless
as Lang
Feuer in der Nacht
as Karl Winkler
Bambi
TVas Self• 3 eps
Bella Block
TVas Thomas Engler• 1 eps
2002
Safe Conduct
as Alfred Greven
Erste Liebe
as Rolf Drost
Der Unbestechliche
as Harald Kittler
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
TVas Self• 2 eps
Rosa Roth
TVas Maiwald• 1 eps
2001
The Experiment
as Robert Steinhoff, Prisoner Nr. 38
2000
Der letzte Zeuge
TVas Hans Leinen• 1 eps
1999
Sweet Little Sixteen
as Thomas Reiner
Polizeiruf 110
TVas Max Ortheil• 1 eps
1998
Tod auf Amrum
as Rolf Spiekermann
Inspector Rex
TVas Gregor Schell• 1 eps
Die Cleveren
TVas Alfons Kleiber
1997
Rossini
as Weich
1996
Lautlose Schritte
as Simon Sundermann
Gates of Fire
as Dr. Sander
Der Mann ohne Schatten
TVas Bruno Kuhlin
1995
Drei Frauen und (k)ein Mann
as Patrick Lajonne
Ich, der Boss
as Victor Mazza
Spur eines Zweifels
as Jens Kolberg
Die Kommissarin
TVas Walter Neumann• 1 eps
1994
A Case For Two
TVas Bernd Marquart• 1 eps
Doppelter Einsatz
TVas Sebastian van Leuyen
Die Gerichtsreporterin
TVas Dr. Wegener
1993
Hecht & Haie
TVas Dr. Frenkel
1991
Kommissar Klefisch
TVas Terboven• 1 eps
1990
1989
Der Alte
TVas Erik Falter / Mano Deller / Peter Larsen / Werner Kuziemsky / Hausmann / Hans Fänger / Thilo Müller / Harry Westphal / Peter Aulan• 1 eps
Der Bastard
TVas Felix Dennison
1988
1987
Wallenstein
as Schwedischer Hauptmann
1985
1984
Das schöne irre Judenmädchen
as Friedrich, Graf von Schwerin
1983
Derrick
TVas Manfred Kessler• 1 eps
1982
Frau Jenny Treibel
as Leopold Treibel
Steckbriefe
TVas Gerhard Hartung
1978
New Year's Eve
as The Young Man
1977
Maiden's War
as Karol Djudko
Eine Jugendliebe
as Wolfgang

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
10/28/1957(68 years old)
Place of Birth
Berlin, West Germany [now Germany]