Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 28, 1957
Place of Birth
Berlin, West Germany [now Germany]
Credits
167 titles
Christian Berkel
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christian Berkel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Block 10
Dr. Maximilian Samuel
Assenheimers Promitalk
Self
Ein Taxi für zwei
Gregor Basil
Entführen für Anfänger
Adam Lansky
Querschuss
Andreas
The Blond Boy from the Casbah
Sania
Black Box
Erik Behr
Hijack
Roland Murnau
Unser Verein: "Eisern Union!"
Narrator (voice)
Die Akte Oppenheimer - Und ewig grüßt der Antisemit
Self
A Retribution
Simon Wiesenthal
Voices of Liberation
Self
Trügerische Sicherheit
Magnus Mittendorf
Furia
Minister Hardenberg
Sportabzeichen für Anfänger
Bertram Dinkler
Enfant Terrible
Interviewer
Die verlorene Tochter
Heinrich von Gems
The Magic Kids: Three Unlikely Heroes
Louis Ziffer
Realm of the Volga
Narrator
Hier spricht Berlin
Self
Criminal: Germany
Steffen Marquardt
Beat
Richard Diemer
Talk aus Berlin
Self
What Doesn't Kill Us
Mark
Scheidung für Anfänger
Christoph
Abendshow
Self
In Wahrheit
Erich Kupka
MDR um 11
Self
Redemption Road
Jonathan Roth
Ringlstetter
self
Klamroths Konter
Self
Die Superpauker
Self
Elle
Robert
Ein gefährliches Angebot
Michael Dithardt
NSU German History X
Amor
Trumbo
Otto Preminger
Quizduell-Olymp
Self
Das Literarische Quartett
Self
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Udo
Wer weiß denn sowas?
Self
Anti-Social
Philip
Dreamgirls
Herr Hegemann
Quizduell
Self
Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
Ernst Udet
MDR um 4
Self
Business as Usual - Der Prophet fliegt mit
Pilot
Buddy
Dr. Küster
Totenengel - Van Leeuwens zweiter Fall
Dr. van der Meer
Grill den Henssler
Self
Im Leben von …
Self