Christian Berkel

Acting · 1.2 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: October 28, 1957
From: Berlin, West Germany [now Germany]

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.

Works

83 films

Inglourious Basterds

20098.2

Downfall

20047.9

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

20157.1

Valkyrie

20087.0

Flightplan

20056.4

Black Book

20067.4

Elle

20166.6

The Experiment

20017.4

Trumbo

20157.2

The Magic Kids: Three Unlikely Heroes

20205.8

Erste Liebe

20023.3

Flame & Citron

20086.8

The Serpent's Egg

19776.2

Miracle at St. Anna

20086.1

Das schöne irre Judenmädchen

19849.0

The Devil Kissed from Behind

199310.0

Entführen für Anfänger

20245.5

Safe Conduct

20026.5

Eine Jugendliebe

197710.0

Leningrad

20095.5

Tod auf Amrum

19987.5

Ein Taxi für zwei

20256.6

Rossini

19976.0

Soundless

20046.3

Ein gefährliches Angebot

20165.8

Gute Referenzen

1994

Sportabzeichen für Anfänger

20215.7

Wind von Südost

1985

Blondine sucht Millionär fürs Leben

20007.3

Enfant Terrible

20204.3

Anti-Social

20155.2

Mogadischu

20086.5

Simones Entscheidung

199710.0

Guys & Balls

20046.4

Der Vater meiner Schwester

20058.0

The Blond Boy from the Casbah

20235.3

Black Box

20235.0

Spur eines Zweifels

19958.0

What Doesn't Kill Us

20186.2

Vickys Alptraum

19987.0

Das dunkle Nest

20117.0

Buddy

20136.0

Ich, der Boss

199510.0

Scheidung für Anfänger

20186.0

Verzweiflung

20004.0

Helen, Fred und Ted

20063.7

Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight

20145.4

Dreamgirls

20155.8

Der andere Junge

20075.5

Triptych

2026

A Retribution

20224.9

Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang"

20057.0

Maiden's War

19779.0

Paradise Is a Trap

19998.0

Business as Usual - Der Prophet fliegt mit

2014

New Year's Eve

19788.5

Querschuss

20246.1

Wallenstein

1987

Eine Frage des Gewissens

20067.0

Hexenküsse

20054.7

Sweet Little Sixteen

19994.9

Mutter, ich will nicht sterben!

19947.5

Drei Frauen und (k)ein Mann

19959.0

Totenengel - Van Leeuwens zweiter Fall

2013

Das Schicksal der Lilian H.

199310.0

Block 10

2026

Frau Jenny Treibel

19827.0

Haber

20087.0

Feuer in der Nacht

20046.5

Single sucht Nachwuchs

19984.3

Your Best Years

19995.9

Der Unbestechliche

20027.0

Gates of Fire

19969.0

Unser Verein: "Eisern Union!"

2022

Ein Herz für Laura

19959.0

Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht

19997.5

Münchhausens letzte Liebe

1988

The Last Employee

20116.3

Trügerische Sicherheit

20224.0

Lautlose Schritte

199610.0

Halt mich fest!

20006.5

Lea Katz - Die Kriminalpsychologin: Einer von uns

19978.0

Die Akte Oppenheimer - Und ewig grüßt der Antisemit

2022