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Christian Berkel
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christian Berkel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Inglourious Basterds
as Proprietor Eric
Downfall
as Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck
Valkyrie
as Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim
Flightplan
as Mortuary Director
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Udo
Black Book
as General Käutner
The Experiment
as Robert Steinhoff, Prisoner Nr. 38
Elle
as Robert
Flame & Citron
as Hoffmann
The Magic Kids: Three Unlikely Heroes
as Louis Ziffer
