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.
Movies starring Christian Berkel (81)
Adam Lansky
Andreas
Erik Behr
Magnus Mittendorf
Herr Hegemann
Ernst Udet
Dr. Van Der Meer
Heinrich Bockelmann
Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt
Eduard 'Ted' Fröhlich
Martin Beltz
Innensenator Helmut Schmidt
Dr. Klaus Merbold
Herbert Zauner
Karl Winkler
Lang
Harald Kittler
Alfred Greven
Rolf Drost
Rolf Spiekermann
Simon Sundermann
Jens Kolberg
Victor Mazza
Patrick Lajonne
Walter Gebhard
Schwedischer Hauptmann
Gernot
Friedrich, Graf Von Schwerin
Wolfgang
Karol Djudko
Movies Made by Christian Berkel (2)
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