Acting credits
103
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Christian Berkel
Acting
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Movies: 53Series: 50Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 7803
IMDb ID: nm0075321
Known for: Acting
Born: October 28, 1957
Age: 68
Place of birth: Berlin, West Germany [now Germany]
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1948 - 2025
Years active: 78
Average TMDB rating: 6.47
Wikidata: Q60996
Other jobs
Producer (1)
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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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Christian Berkel.
6.6
Ein Taxi für zwei
as Gregor Basil
2025 Movie
6.0
Entführen für Anfänger
as Adam Lansky
2024 Movie
6.1
Querschuss
as Andreas
2024 Movie
5.2
The Blond Boy from the Casbah
as Sania
2023 Movie
5.0
Black Box
as Erik Behr
2023 Movie
Unser Verein: "Eisern Union!"
as Narrator (voice)
2022 Movie
Die Akte Oppenheimer - Und ewig grüßt der Antisemit
as Self
2022 Movie
4.9
A Retribution
as Simon Wiesenthal
2022 Movie
4.0
Trügerische Sicherheit
as Magnus Mittendorf
2022 Movie
5.7
Sportabzeichen für Anfänger
as Bertram Dinkler
2021 Movie
4.3
Enfant Terrible
as Interviewer
2020 Movie
5.8
The Magic Kids: Three Unlikely Heroes
as Louis Ziffer
2020 Movie
6.2
What Doesn't Kill Us
as Mark
2018 Movie
6.0
Scheidung für Anfänger
as Christoph
2018 Movie
6.7
Elle
as Robert
2016 Movie
5.8
Ein gefährliches Angebot
as Michael Dithardt
2016 Movie
7.2
Trumbo
as Otto Preminger
2015 Movie
7.1
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Udo
2015 Movie
5.3
Anti-Social
as Philip
2015 Movie
5.8
Dreamgirls
as Herr Hegemann
2015 Movie
5.4
Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
as Ernst Udet
2014 Movie
Business as Usual - Der Prophet fliegt mit
as Pilot
2014 Movie
6.0
Buddy
as Dr. Küster
2013 Movie
Totenengel - Van Leeuwens zweiter Fall
as Dr. van der Meer
2013 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Christian Berkel.
7.6
Hijack
as Roland Murnau • 8 eps
2023 Series
6.0
Voices of Liberation
as Self • 11 eps
2022 Series
7.1
Furia
as Minister Hardenberg • 5 eps
2021 Series
6.0
Die verlorene Tochter
as Heinrich von Gems • 6 eps
2020 Series
8.8
Realm of the Volga
as Narrator • 3 eps
2019 Series
6.9
Criminal: Germany
as Steffen Marquardt • 3 eps
2019 Series
6.8
Beat
as Richard Diemer • 7 eps
2018 Series
7.5
In Wahrheit
as Erich Kupka • 1 eps
2017 Series
5.9
Redemption Road
as Jonathan Roth • 2 eps
2017 Series
Ringlstetter
as self • 1 eps
2016 Series
7.3
NSU German History X
as Amor • 1 eps
2016 Series
7.6
Wer weiß denn sowas?
as Self • 8 eps
2015 Series
5.0
MDR um 4
as Self • 1 eps
2014 Series
5.0
Grill den Henssler
as Self • 1 eps
2013 Series
8.3
Roche & Böhmermann
as Self • 1 eps
2012 Series
Der Mann mit dem Fagott
as Heinrich Bockelmann • 2 eps
2011 Series
6.5
Klein gegen Groß - Das unglaubliche Duell
as Self • 3 eps
2011 Series
5.5
Markus Lanz
as Self • 2 eps
2008 Series
4.5
Der Kriminalist
as Hauptkommissar Bruno Schumann • 109 eps
2006 Series
2.0
Die Sturmflut
as Helmut Schmidt • 2 eps
2006 Series
8.0
maybrit illner
as Self • 2 eps
1999 Series
3.8
Volle Kanne
as Self • 5 eps
1999 Series
10.0
Ein Herz für Kinder
as Self • 1 eps
1998 Series
4.5
Der letzte Zeuge
as Hans Leinen • 1 eps
1998 Series