Christian Berkel
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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.Read full biography
TV Shows
35 Tracked Shows
Other Credits
Assenheimers Promitalk (2025), Voices of Liberation (2022), Die verlorene Tochter (2020), Hier spricht Berlin (2019), Realm of the Volga (2019), Criminal: Germany (2019), Beat (2018), Talk aus Berlin (2018), Redemption Road (2017), In Wahrheit (2017), Abendshow (2017), MDR um 11 (2017), Klamroths Konter (2016), NSU German History X (2016), Die Superpauker (2016), Das Literarische Quartett (2015), Quizduell (2014), Grill den Henssler (2013), Gottschalk Live (2012), Im Leben von … (2012), Roche & Böhmermann (2012), The Man with the Bassoon (2011), Günther Jauch (2011), Dickes B (2007), Die Sturmflut (2006), Helen, Fred und Ted (2006), Star-Biathlon (2005), Fröhlich lesen (2005), Thadeusz (2005), NDR Kultur – Das Journal (2002), Gero von Boehm begegnet... (2002), Die Cleveren (1998), Der letzte Zeuge (1998), Ein Herz für Kinder (1998), Im Dialog (1997), Der Mann ohne Schatten (1996), A.S. Gefahr ist sein Geschäft (1995), Die Kommissarin (1994), Doppelter Einsatz (1994), Rosa Roth (1994), Die Gerichtsreporterin (1994), Air Albatros (1994), Ein unvergeßliches Wochenende (1993), Bella Block (1993), Hecht & Haie (1993), Kommissar Klefisch (1990), Der Bastard (1989), Steckbriefe (1982)