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Christian Berkel
Acting
Born: 1957
Berlin, West Germany [now Germany]
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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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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
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| Show / Title | Year | Credit / Role |
|---|---|---|
| Hijack | 2023 | Roland Murnau |
| Furia | 2021 | Minister Hardenberg |
| Die verlorene Tochter | 2020 | Heinrich von Gems |
| Hier spricht Berlin | 2019 | Self |
| Criminal: Germany | 2019 | Steffen Marquardt |
| Beat | 2018 | Richard Diemer |
| Talk aus Berlin | 2018 | Self |
| In Wahrheit | 2017 | Erich Kupka |
| MDR um 11 | 2017 | Self |
| Redemption Road | 2017 | Jonathan Roth |
| Ringlstetter | 2016 | self |
| NSU German History X | 2016 | Amor |
| Quizduell-Olymp | 2015 | Self |
| Das Literarische Quartett | 2015 | Self |
| Wer weiß denn sowas? | 2015 | Self |
| Quizduell | 2014 | Self |
| MDR um 4 | 2014 | Self |
| Grill den Henssler | 2013 | Self |
| Im Leben von … | 2012 | Self |
| Roche & Böhmermann | 2012 | Self |
| Gottschalk Live | 2012 | Self |
| Günther Jauch | 2011 | Self |
| Klein gegen Groß - Das unglaubliche Duell | 2011 | Self |
| Markus Lanz | 2008 | Self |
| Dickes B | 2007 | Self |
| Der Kriminalist | 2006 | Hauptkommissar Bruno Schumann |
| Thadeusz | 2005 | self |
| Fröhlich lesen | 2005 | Self |
| ZIBB | 2003 | Self |
| NDR Kultur – Das Journal | 2002 | Self |
| Gero von Boehm begegnet... | 2002 | Self |
| Menschen der Woche | 2000 | Self |
| maybrit illner | 1999 | Self |
| Volle Kanne | 1999 | Self |
| Der letzte Zeuge | 1998 | Hans Leinen |
| The Johannes B. Kerner Show | 1998 | Self |
| Im Dialog | 1997 | self |
| Zimmer frei! | 1996 | Self |
| alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio | 1994 | Self |
| Inspector Rex | 1994 | Gregor Schell |
| Die Kommissarin | 1994 | Walter Neumann |
| Ein starkes Team | 1994 | Gerhard Brock |
| Morgenmagazin | 1992 | self |
| Riverboat | 1992 | Self |
| DAS! | 1991 | Self |
| ZDF-Mittagsmagazin | 1989 | Self |
| Goldene Kamera | 1984 | Self |
| A Case For Two | 1981 | Bernd Marquart |
| Wetten, dass..? | 1981 | Self |
| NDR Talk Show | 1979 | Self |
| SOKO München | 1978 | Contributor |
| The Old Fox | 1977 | Hausmann |
| Kölner Treff | 1976 | Self |
| Derrick | 1974 | Jürgen Klose |
| Polizeiruf 110 | 1971 | Max Ortheil |
| Dalli Dalli | 1971 | Self |
| Scene of the Crime | 1970 | Erik Steinbeck |
| Bambi | 1948 | Self |