Christian Berkel
Acting
- Born:
- 1957-10-28
- Place of birth:
- 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.
Known For
Filmography
Block 10
Assenheimers Promitalk
Ein Taxi für zwei
Entführen für Anfänger
Querschuss
The Blond Boy from the Casbah
Black Box
Hijack
California Dreaming - Modern Architecture In The Golden State
Unser Verein: "Eisern Union!"
Die Akte Oppenheimer - Und ewig grüßt der Antisemit
A Retribution
Voices of Liberation
Trügerische Sicherheit
Furia
Sportabzeichen für Anfänger
Enfant Terrible
Die verlorene Tochter
The Magic Kids: Three Unlikely Heroes
Realm of the Volga
Hier spricht Berlin
Criminal: Germany
Beat
Talk aus Berlin
What Doesn't Kill Us
Scheidung für Anfänger
Abendshow
In Wahrheit - Mord am Engelsgraben
In Wahrheit
MDR um 11
Redemption Road
Ringlstetter
Klamroths Konter
Die Superpauker
Elle
Ein gefährliches Angebot
NSU German History X
Trumbo
Quizduell-Olymp
Das Literarische Quartett
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Wer weiß denn sowas?
Anti-Social
Dreamgirls
Quizduell
Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
MDR um 4
Business as Usual - Der Prophet fliegt mit
Buddy
Totenengel - Van Leeuwens zweiter Fall
Grill den Henssler
Im Leben von …
Roche & Böhmermann
Gottschalk Live
Das dunkle Nest
The Last Employee
The Man with the Bassoon
Günther Jauch
Klein gegen Groß - Das unglaubliche Duell
Inglourious Basterds