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.
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Filmography
Block 10
2026
as Dr. Maximilian Samuel
Ein Taxi für zwei
2025
as Gregor Basil
Entführen für Anfänger
2024
as Adam Lansky
Querschuss
2024
as Andreas
The Blond Boy from the Casbah
2023
as Sania
Black Box
2023
as Erik Behr
Unser Verein: "Eisern Union!"
2022
as Narrator (voice)
Die Akte Oppenheimer - Und ewig grüßt der Antisemit
2022
as Self
A Retribution
2022
as Simon Wiesenthal
Trügerische Sicherheit
2022
as Magnus Mittendorf
Sportabzeichen für Anfänger
2021
as Bertram Dinkler
Enfant Terrible
2020
as Interviewer
The Magic Kids: Three Unlikely Heroes
2020
as Louis Ziffer
What Doesn't Kill Us
2018
as Mark
Scheidung für Anfänger
2018
as Christoph
Elle
2016
as Robert
Ein gefährliches Angebot
2016
as Michael Dithardt
Trumbo
2015
as Otto Preminger
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
2015
as Udo
Anti-Social
2015
as Philip
Dreamgirls
2015
as Herr Hegemann
Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
2014
as Ernst Udet
Business as Usual - Der Prophet fliegt mit
2014
as Pilot
Buddy
2013
as Dr. Küster