Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
81
Gender
Male
Birthday
October 28, 1957 ( 67 years old )
Place of Birth
Berlin, West Germany [now Germany]
Christian Berkel
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
Das Experiment
2001-03-08Der Untergang
2004-09-16Valkyrie
2008-12-25Leningrad
2009-01-01Lautlos
2004-04-22Die Sturmflut
2006-02-19Männer wie wir
2004-10-07Mogadischu
2008-11-30Flammen & Citronen
2008-03-25