Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
October 28, 1957
Age
68
Place of Birth
Berlin, West Germany [now Germany]
Popularity
1.2
Christian Berkel
Acting
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 signific…
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Filmography
2026
Block 10
Movie · Dr. Maximilian Samuel
0.0
2025
Assenheimers Promitalk
TV · Self
0.0
2025
Ein Taxi für zwei
Movie · Gregor Basil
6.6
2024
Entführen für Anfänger
Movie · Adam Lansky
5.5
2024
Querschuss
Movie · Andreas
6.1
2023
The Blond Boy from the Casbah
Movie · Sania
5.3
2023
Black Box
Movie · Erik Behr
5.0
2023
Hijack
TV · Roland Murnau
7.5
2022
California Dreaming - Modern Architecture In The Golden State
TV · Self - Presenter
0.0
2022
Unser Verein: "Eisern Union!"
Movie · Narrator (voice)
0.0
2022
Die Akte Oppenheimer - Und ewig grüßt der Antisemit
Movie · Self
0.0
2022
A Retribution
Movie · Simon Wiesenthal
5.4
2022
Voices of Liberation
TV · Self
6.5
2022
Trügerische Sicherheit
Movie · Magnus Mittendorf
4.0
2021
Furia
TV · Minister Hardenberg
7.1
2021
Sportabzeichen für Anfänger
Movie · Bertram Dinkler
5.7
2020
Enfant Terrible
Movie · Interviewer
4.3
2020
Die verlorene Tochter
TV · Heinrich von Gems
6.0
2020
The Magic Kids: Three Unlikely Heroes
Movie · Louis Ziffer
5.8
2019
Realm of the Volga
TV · Narrator
8.8
2019
Hier spricht Berlin
TV · Self
0.0
2019
Criminal: Germany
TV · Steffen Marquardt
6.9
2018
Beat
TV · Richard Diemer
6.7
2018
Talk aus Berlin
TV · Self
6.0