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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Known For
Acting

2001
asRobert Steinhoff, Prisoner Nr. 38

2004
asProf. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck

2008
asAlbrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim

2009
asVinkelmeyer

2004
asLang

2004
asRudolf

2008
asBundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt

2008
asHoffmann

2005
asSelf

2022
asNarrator (voice)

2009
asProprietor Eric

1977
asStudent

2002
asAlfred Greven

2022
asMagnus Mittendorf

2011
asDavid Böttcher

2023
asErik Behr

2022
asSimon Wiesenthal

1999
asArzt

1997
as
1999
asThomas Reiner

2024
asAndreas

2005
asHerbert Zauner

2004
asKarl Winkler

2013
asDr. Küster

1997
asWeich

2014
asErnst Udet

2006
asGeneral Käutner

1977
asWolfgang

1977
asKarol Djudko

1982
asLeopold Treibel

1993
asJosef

1995
asPatrick Lajonne

1996
asSimon Sundermann

1998
asRolf Spiekermann

1999
asRichard

2000
asDietrich

2002
asHarald Kittler

2002
asRolf Drost

2005
asDr. Klaus Merbold

2007
asJakob Wagner

2006
asEduard 'Ted' Fröhlich

2006
asMartin Beltz

2008
asCaptain Eichholz

2011
asPfarrer Dr. Gabriel Reinberg

1998
as
2024
asAdam Lansky

1998
asJohn

2000
asAxel

2023
asSania

1994
asWalter Gebhard

1995
asVictor Mazza

1995
as
2008
asFritz Shimon Haber

1978
asThe Young Man

2016
asRobert

1993
as
2013
asDr. van der Meer

1984
asFriedrich, Graf von Schwerin

1997
asStelzer

1987
asSchwedischer Hauptmann

2015
asUdo

1999
asRudi

2015
asPhilip

1985
asGernot

1988
asWilhelm

2015
asHerr Hegemann

2015
asOtto Preminger

2000
as
2016
asMichael Dithardt

1994
as
1996
asDr. Sander

2018
asMark

1995
asJens Kolberg

2018
asChristoph

2014
asPilot

2020
asLouis Ziffer

2020
asInterviewer

2005
asMortuary Director

2021
asBertram Dinkler

2022
asSelf

2025
asGregor Basil
asSelf
asSelf
asFelix Dennison
asUwe Pfandler
asTerboven
asErik Steinbeck
asWalter Neumann
asHauptkommissar Bruno Schumann
asBruno Kuhlin
asSelf
asSebastian van Leuyen
asMaiwald
asAlfons Kleiber
asJürgen Klose
asRolf Laduhn
asLussmann
asDixi
asPsychopath
asAlex Sierich
asAndy Stein
asHelmut Gittel
asHans Leinen
asMano Deller
asManfred Kessler
asThilo Müller
asHans Fänger
asWerner Kuziemsky
asErik Falter
asPeter Larsen
asPeter Aulan
asHausmann
asBernd Marquart
asGerhard Brock
asMax Ortheil
as
asHeinrich Bockelmann
asDr. Wegener
asLefevre
asThomas Engler
asGregor Schell
asSelf
asSelf
asNarrator
as
asSteffen Marquardt
asself
asJonathan Roth
asRainer Wenisch
asHarry Westphal
asAlfred Waller
asDoc Decker
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
as
asDr. Frenkel
asSelf
asAmor
asSelf
asGerhard Hartung
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
asRichard Diemer
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
asMinister Hardenberg
asSelf
asHeinrich von Gems
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
asErich Kupka
asself
asself
asself
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf
as
asHelmut Schmidt
Production

2024
asCrew
Directing

1991
as