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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.
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As actor
Block 10
Ein Taxi für zwei
Querschuss
Entführen für Anfänger
Black Box
The Blond Boy from the Casbah
Unser Verein: "Eisern Union!"
Trügerische Sicherheit
A Retribution
Die Akte Oppenheimer - Und ewig grüßt der Antisemit
Sportabzeichen für Anfänger
The Magic Kids: Three Unlikely Heroes
Enfant Terrible
What Doesn't Kill Us
Scheidung für Anfänger
Elle
Ein gefährliches Angebot
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Anti-Social
Dreamgirls
Trumbo
Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
Business as Usual - Der Prophet fliegt mit
Buddy
Totenengel - Van Leeuwens zweiter Fall
The Last Employee
Das dunkle Nest
Leningrad
Inglourious Basterds
Valkyrie