Daniel César Martín Brühl González Domingo; born 16 June 1978) is a Spanish-born German actor. He is best known as Daniel Brühl.
Brühl was born in Barcelona, Spain, the son of German stage director Hanno Brühl and a Spanish professor mother. He also has a brother and a sister. Shortly after his birth his family moved to Cologne, Germany, where he grew up and attended the Dreikönigsgymnasium. Brought up in a fully bilingual home, he speaks German, Spanish, English, French and Catalan. In 2006, Brühl separated from his long-time girlfriend, actress Jessica Schwarz, to whom he was engaged.
Brühl began acting at a young age and made his first steps in 1995 as street kid Benji in the soap opera Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love). His international breakthrough role came in 2003 as Alex Kerner in the Golden Globe-nominated film Good Bye Lenin!, which reached an estimated six million cinema-goers worldwide. In 2003, Brühl won the European Film Academy award trophies for Best Actor… read more
Daniel César Martín Brühl González Domingo; born 16 June 1978) is a Spanish-born German actor. He is best known as Daniel Brühl.
Brühl was born in Barcelona, Spain, the son of German stage director Hanno Brühl and a Spanish professor mother. He also has a brother and a sister. Shortly after his birth his family moved to Cologne, Germany, where he grew up and attended the Dreikönigsgymnasium. Brought up in a fully bilingual home, he speaks German, Spanish, English, French and Catalan. In 2006, Brühl separated from his long-time girlfriend, actress Jessica Schwarz, to whom he was engaged.
Brühl began acting at a young age and made his first steps in 1995 as street kid Benji in the soap opera Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love). His international breakthrough role came in 2003 as Alex Kerner in the Golden Globe-nominated film Good Bye Lenin!, which reached an estimated six million cinema-goers worldwide. In 2003, Brühl won the European Film Academy award trophies for Best Actor (Critics/Audience Awards) for the role. Brühl made his English-speaking film debut in 2004’s Ladies in Lavender, starring alongside British acting legends Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. The same year, he won the People’s Choice trophy for Best Actor for the film Love in Thoughts while at the same time, he was nominated for Best Actor (critics) for The Edukators. Brühl featured as Lieutenant Horstmayer, a central character in the 2005 film Joyeux Noël, a trilingual World War One film based on the experiences of French, German and British (Scottish) soldiers during the Christmas truce of 1914. The film shows Brühl’s linguistic ability as he ably communicates in German, French and English throughout. In 2006, he was invited as one of the short film and Cinéfondation juries in the Cannes Film Festival. In June 2006, he made a cameo appearance in Two Days in Paris, a romantic comedy film which was directed by French actress Julie Delpy. In September 2006 his Cannes-nominated film Salvador (Puig Antich) premiered in Spain. In the film he played Salvador Puig Antich, a Catalan anarchist executed during the Franco era. In 2007 he appeared in a small role in the film The Bourne Ultimatum.
He was in Krabat, based on a popular German children’s story, which premiered in German cinemas in October 2008. He played the role of Frederik Zoller, a German war hero in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, starring Brad Pitt, which premiered at Cannes 2009. He and his co-stars won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
Brühl’s forthcoming projects include the British-Russian production In Transit where he will be playing a young Nazi soldier opposite John Malkovich. In May 2009 Brühl decided to become active in a different field of filmmaking by launching the production company Fouronfilm together with Film1.2 Brühl will co-star Clive Owen in the horror thriller Intruders, which is directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. —Wikipedia
