Christian Berkel
Known for ActingBorn 1957-10-28Berlin, West Germany [now Germany]
Christian Berkel (born October 28, 1957) is a German actor.
Berkel was born in Berlin, Germany. His father was a military doctor.
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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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Known for
Inglourious Basterds
2009 · as Proprietor Eric
Downfall
2004 · as Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck
Flightplan
2005 · as Mortuary Director
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
2015 · as Udo
Valkyrie
2008 · as Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim
Black Book
2006 · as General Käutner
Elle
2016 · as Robert
The Experiment
2001 · as Robert Steinhoff, Prisoner Nr. 38
Safe Conduct
2002 · as Alfred Greven
Trumbo
2015 · as Otto Preminger
Flame & Citron
2008 · as Hoffmann
Miracle at St. Anna
2008 · as Captain Eichholz
The Magic Kids: Three Unlikely Heroes
2020 · as Louis Ziffer
The Serpent's Egg
1977 · as Student
Triptych
Leningrad
2009 · as Vinkelmeyer
Rossini
1997 · as Weich
Soundless
2004 · as Lang