Christian Berkel

Acting · 0.9 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

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

20157.1

Downfall

20047.9

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

The Devil Kissed from Behind

199310.0

Flame & Citron

20086.8

Miracle at St. Anna

20086.1

Erste Liebe

20023.3

Das schöne irre Judenmädchen

19849.0

Safe Conduct

20026.5

Entführen für Anfänger

20245.5

The Serpent's Egg

19776.2

Leningrad

20095.5

Eine Jugendliebe

197710.0

Soundless

20046.3

Rossini

19976.0

Wind von Südost

1985

Der Vater meiner Schwester

20058.0

Ein Taxi für zwei

20256.6

Simones Entscheidung

199710.0

Ein gefährliches Angebot

20165.8

Tod auf Amrum

19987.5

Sportabzeichen für Anfänger

20215.7

What Doesn't Kill Us

20186.2

Enfant Terrible

20204.3

Gute Referenzen

1994

Blondine sucht Millionär fürs Leben

20007.3

Mogadischu

20086.5

The Blond Boy from the Casbah

20235.3

Guys & Balls

20046.4

Anti-Social

20155.2

Dreamgirls

20155.8

Helen, Fred und Ted

20063.7

Buddy

20136.0

Black Box

20235.0

Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight

20145.4

Triptych

2026

Verzweiflung

20004.0

Vickys Alptraum

19987.0

Ich, der Boss

199510.0

Der andere Junge

20075.5

A Retribution

20224.9

Maiden's War

19779.0

Eine Frage des Gewissens

20067.0

Spur eines Zweifels

19958.0

New Year's Eve

19788.5

Das dunkle Nest

20117.0

Mutter, ich will nicht sterben!

19947.5

Scheidung für Anfänger

20186.0

Unser Verein: "Eisern Union!"

2022

Feuer in der Nacht

20046.5

Frau Jenny Treibel

19827.0

Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht

19997.5

Gates of Fire

19969.0

Totenengel - Van Leeuwens zweiter Fall

2013

Drei Frauen und (k)ein Mann

19959.0

Your Best Years

19995.9

Block 10

2026

Paradise Is a Trap

19998.0

Münchhausens letzte Liebe

1988

The Last Employee

20116.3

Haber

20087.0

Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang"

20057.0

Sweet Little Sixteen

19994.9

Das Schicksal der Lilian H.

199310.0

Business as Usual - Der Prophet fliegt mit

2014

Single sucht Nachwuchs

19984.3

Hexenküsse

20054.7

Der Unbestechliche

20027.0

Ein Herz für Laura

19959.0

Trügerische Sicherheit

20224.0

Lautlose Schritte

199610.0

Wallenstein

1987

Lea Katz - Die Kriminalpsychologin: Einer von uns

19978.0

Halt mich fest!

20006.5

Querschuss

20246.1

Die Akte Oppenheimer - Und ewig grüßt der Antisemit

2022