| Daniel Brühl | |
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Daniel Brühl with co-star Anna Maria Mühe. |
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| Born | Daniel César Martín Brühl González Domingo June 16, 1978 Barcelona, Spain |
| Other names | Slim |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1995–present |
Daniel César Martín Brühl González Domingo (; born 16 June 1978) is a Spanish/German actor. He is best known as Daniel Brühl.
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Brühl was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.[1] His father was the late German stage director Hanno Brühl and his mother was a Spanish professor. 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 multilingual home, he speaks Spanish, German, Catalan, French and English. In 2006, Brühl separated from his long-time girlfriend, actress Jessica Schwarz, to whom he was engaged.[2]. He is a FC Barcelona fan.
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 the 2004 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 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 to be part 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 was introduced to mainstream U.S. audiences in 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. In 2009, he also starred in Julie Delpy's third directorial film The Countess.
In May 2009 Brühl decided to become active in a different field of filmmaking by launching the production company Fouronfilm together with Film1.[3] Brühl starred in the 2010 British-Russian production In Transit where he played a young Nazi soldier opposite John Malkovich. He also co-starred with Clive Owen in the 2011 horror thriller Intruders, which was directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo.[4]
| Year | Film | Role | Other notes |
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| 2000 | Schlaraffenland | ||
| Schule aka No More School | Markus | ||
| Deeply | Jay | ||
| 2001 | Nichts bereuen aka No Regrets | Daniel | |
| Das Weisse Rauschen aka The White Sound | Lukas | ||
| Honolulu | Marek | ||
| 2002 | Vaya con Dios | Arbo | |
| Elefantenherz | Marko | ||
| 2003 | Good Bye Lenin! | Alex | European Film Award for Best Actor German Film Awards for Best Actor Also for Elefantenherz |
| 2004 | Was nützt die Liebe in Gedanken aka Love in Thoughts | Paul | |
| Ladies in Lavender | Andrea | ||
| Farland | Frank | ||
| Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei aka The Edukators | Jan | Nominated – European Film Award for Best Actor | |
| 2005 | Joyeux Noël aka Merry Christmas | Hortsmayer | |
| 2006 | Cargo | Chris | |
| Salvador (Puig Antich) | Salvador Puig Antich | Nominated – Goya Award for Best Actor | |
| Ein Freund Von Mir aka A Friend of Mine | Karl | ||
| 2007 | 2 Days in Paris | Lukas | |
| The Bourne Ultimatum | Martin Kreutz | ||
| 2008 | In Tranzit | Klaus | |
| Krabat | Tonda | ||
| A Tram in SP | Marcos | ||
| 2009 | John Rabe | Dr. Georg Rosen | |
| The Countess | Istvan Thurzo | ||
| Inglourious Basterds | Fredrick Zoller | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast |
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| Lila, Lila | David Kern | ||
| 2010 | Kóngavegur 7 | Rupert | |
| Die kommenden Tage | Hans Krämer | ||
| 2011 | Eva | Alex Garel | |
| Der ganz große Traum | Konrad Koch | ||
| Et si on vivait tous ensemble? | Dirk | ||
| Intruders | Father Antonio | ||
| Los Pelayos | Iván | ||
| 2012 | 7 Days in Havana | ||
| 2013 | Rush | Niki Lauda |