Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1957-10-28 (Age: 69)
Place of Birth
Berlin, West Germany [now Germany]
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.
Filmography (81)
Ein Taxi für zwei
2025
Entführen für Anfänger
2024
Querschuss
2024
The Blond Boy from the Casbah
2023
Black Box
2023
Unser Verein: "Eisern Union!"
2022
Die Akte Oppenheimer - Und ewig grüßt der Antisemit
2022
A Retribution
2022
Trügerische Sicherheit
2022
Sportabzeichen für Anfänger
2021
Enfant Terrible
2020
The Magic Kids: Three Unlikely Heroes
2020
What Doesn't Kill Us
2018
Scheidung für Anfänger
2018
