Daniel Brühl Filmography

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, Catalonia, Spain. His father was the late German TV 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. He is an 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 . 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 for the role.
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