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.
81 movies · 83 shows
Ein Taxi für zwei
2025·6.6
Entführen für Anfänger
2024·5.5
Querschuss
2024·6.1
The Blond Boy from the Casbah
2023·5.3
Black Box
2023·5.0
Unser Verein: "Eisern Union!"
2022·0.0
Die Akte Oppenheimer - Und ewig grüßt der Antisemit
2022·0.0
A Retribution
2022·4.9
Trügerische Sicherheit
2022·4.0
Sportabzeichen für Anfänger
2021·5.7
Enfant Terrible
2020·4.3
The Magic Kids: Three Unlikely Heroes
2020·5.9
What Doesn't Kill Us
2018·6.2
Scheidung für Anfänger
2018·6.0
Elle
2016·6.6
Ein gefährliches Angebot
2016·5.8
Trumbo
2015·7.2
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
2015·7.1
Anti-Social
2015·5.2
Dreamgirls
2015·5.8
Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
2014·5.4
Business as Usual - Der Prophet fliegt mit
2014·0.0
Buddy
2013·6.0
Totenengel - Van Leeuwens zweiter Fall
2013·0.0
Das dunkle Nest
2011·7.0
The Last Employee
2011·6.3
Inglourious Basterds
2009·8.2
Leningrad
2009·5.5
Valkyrie
2008·7.0
Mogadischu
2008·6.5
Miracle at St. Anna
2008·6.1
Haber
2008·7.0
Flame & Citron
2008·6.8
Der andere Junge
2007·5.5
Black Book
2006·7.5
Helen, Fred und Ted
2006·3.7
Eine Frage des Gewissens
2006·7.0
Flightplan
2005·6.4
Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang"
2005·7.0
Der Vater meiner Schwester
2005·10.0
Hexenküsse
2005·4.7
Feuer in der Nacht
2004·6.5
Guys & Balls
2004·6.3
Downfall
2004·7.9
Soundless
2004·6.3
Der Unbestechliche
2002·7.0
Safe Conduct
2002·6.5
Erste Liebe
2002·3.3
The Experiment
2001·7.4
Verzweiflung
2000·4.0
Blondine sucht Millionär fürs Leben
2000·7.3
Halt mich fest!
2000·6.5
Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht
1999·7.5
Paradise Is a Trap
1999·8.0
Your Best Years
1999·5.9
Sweet Little Sixteen
1999·4.9
Tod auf Amrum
1998·7.5
Single sucht Nachwuchs
1998·4.3
Vickys Alptraum
1998·7.0
Simones Entscheidung
1997·10.0
Rossini
1997·6.0
Lea Katz - Die Kriminalpsychologin: Einer von uns
1997·8.0
Lautlose Schritte
1996·10.0
Gates of Fire
1996·9.0
Spur eines Zweifels
1995·8.0
Drei Frauen und (k)ein Mann
1995·9.0
Ich, der Boss
1995·10.0
Ein Herz für Laura
1995·9.0
Gute Referenzen
1994·0.0
Mutter, ich will nicht sterben!
1994·7.5
Das Schicksal der Lilian H.
1993·10.0
The Devil Kissed from Behind
1993·10.0
Münchhausens letzte Liebe
1988·0.0
Wallenstein
1987·0.0
Wind von Südost
1985·0.0
Das schöne irre Judenmädchen
1984·9.0
Frau Jenny Treibel
1982·7.0
New Year's Eve
1978·8.5
The Serpent's Egg
1977·6.2
Eine Jugendliebe
1977·10.0
Maiden's War
1977·9.0