Christian Berkel
Actor
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.
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As Director
Filmography
Inglourious Basterds
as Proprietor Eric 2009
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Udo 2015
Downfall
as Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck 2004
Valkyrie
as Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim 2008
Flightplan
as Mortuary Director 2005
Elle
as Robert 2016
Trumbo
as Otto Preminger 2015
Black Book
as General Käutner 2006
The Experiment
as Robert Steinhoff, Prisoner Nr. 38 2001
Miracle at St. Anna
as Captain Eichholz 2008
Flame & Citron
as Hoffmann 2008
Dreamgirls
as Herr Hegemann 2015
The Serpent's Egg
as Student 1977
Leningrad
as Vinkelmeyer 2009
Buddy
as Dr. Küster 2013
Anti-Social
as Philip 2015
Rossini
as Weich 1997