Daniel Brühl

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Daniel Brühl
German actor Daniel Brühl at the 2002 Biberach Film Festival
Birth name	Daniel César Martín Brühl González Domingo
Born	June 16, 1978 Barcelona, Spain
Notable roles	Alex in Good Bye Lenin! Paul Krantz in Love in Thoughts Hortsmayer in Merry Christmas

Actor Daniel Brühl together with actress Anna Maria Mühe.

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Daniel César Martín Brühl González Domingo (born June 16, 1978), usually credited as Daniel Brühl (help·info), is a German actor.

Brühl was born in Barcelona, Spain, and is the son of German stage director Hanno Brühl and a Catalan professor. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to Cologne, Germany where he grew up. He was raised in a fully bilingual home, and so speaks both German and Spanish fluently (as well as some Catalan).

He began acting at a young age, and made his international breakthrough role in 2003 as Alex Kerner in the Golden Globe nominated film Good Bye Lenin!, which reached an estimated six million cinema-goers worldwide. He made his English-speaking film debut in 2004's Ladies in Lavender, starring alongside British acting legends Judi Dench and Maggie Smith.

In 2003, he won the European Film Academy award trophies for Best Actor (Critics/Audience Awards) for Good Bye Lenin! On the following year, he won again the Peoples Choice trophy for Best Actor in the same award giving body for the film Love in Thoughts while at the same time, he was nominated for Best Actor (critics) for The Edukators. In 2006, he was invited as one of the short film and cinefondation juries in the Cannes Film Festival. In September 2006, his Cannes-nominated film Salvador (2006) premiered in Spain. In the film, he played Salvador Puig Antich, a Catalan anarchist executed in the Franco era.

His upcoming projects involve the Anglo/Russian production In Transit where he'll be playing the antagonist young Nazi soldier which also co-stars John Malkovich. In June 2006, he filmed Two Days (2007 film), a romantic comedy movie which will be the directed by French actress Julie Delpy who also stars in the film.

A lot of projects was offered to him lately. Recently, he just finished filming Krabat, a popular children story in Germany which will be premiered on German theaters in the first quarter of 2008. Also, last August, he finished filming the vampire movie After Dark, a vampire love story movie which also stars US actress Elisha Cuthbert and Robert Pattinson.

At 28, this young actor is still single and busy with his career. Daniel is soon to be one of the most popular and charismatic international actors. Because of so many opportunities and job offers that come to him, he just recently separated from his long time girlfriend, actress Jessica Schwarz, to whom he was engaged.

1 Awards
2 Nominations
3 Partial filmography
4 Trivia from IMDB
5 External links

[edit] Awards

Bambi Awards (2003) - Best Ensemble, shared with Katrin Saß and Florian Lukas for Good Bye Lenin!
Bavarian Film Awards (2002) - Best Young Actor for Das Weisse Rauschen and Nichts Bereuen
European Film Awards (2003) - Best Actor (Critics Award) for Good Bye Lenin!
European Film Awards (2003) - Best Actor (Audience Award) for Good Bye Lenin!
European Film Awards (2004) - Best Actor (Audience Award) for Love in Thoughts
German Film Awards (2003) - Best Actor (Film Award in Gold) for Good Bye Lenin!
German Film Awards (2003) - Best Actor (Audience Award) for Good Bye Lenin!
German Film Awards (2002) - Best Actor (Film Award in Gold) for Das Weisse Rauschen, Vaya Con Dios and Nichts Bereuen
German Film Critics Association Awards (2003) - Best Actor for Das Weisse Rauschen and Vaya Con Dios
Berlin Film Festival (2003) - European Film Shooting Star by European Film Promotion

[edit] Nominations

European Film Awards (2004) - Best Actor (Critics Award) for The Edukators
Premis Barcelona de Cinema (2006) - Best Actor (Critics Award) for Salvador

[edit] Partial filmography

Daniel Brühl as Alex and the Russian nurse Lara (Chulpan Khamatova), in Good Bye Lenin!

Krabat (2008) as Tonda
After Dark (2008)
Bourne Ultimatum (2007) (Cameo role playing Marie's younger brother)
Two Days (2007) as Lukas
In Tranzit (2007) as Klaus
Ein Freund Von Mir aka A Friend of Mine (2006) as Karl
Salvador (2006) as Salvador Puig Antich
Cargo (2006) as Chris
Joyeux Noël aka Merry Christmas (2005) as Hortsmayer
Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei aka The Edukators (2004) as Jan
Farland (2004) as Frank
Ladies in Lavender (2004) as Andrea
Was nützt die Liebe in Gedanken aka Love in Thoughts (2004) as Paul
Good Bye Lenin! (2003) (with Katrin Saß, Chulpan Khamatova, Florian Lukas and Alexander Beyer) as Alex
Elefantenherz (2002) as Marko
Vaya con Dios (2002) as Arbo
Nichts bereuen aka No Regrets (2001) as Daniel
Das Weisse Rauschen aka The White Sound (2001) as Lukas
Schule aka No More School (2000) as Markus
Schlaraffenland (2000)

[edit] Trivia from IMDB

Speaks Spanish, German, English and French.
2003: Named as one of European films' Shooting Stars by European Film Promotion.
Lead Singer of the band "Purge".
Jessica Schwarz gave him the nickname "Golum" because he looks like the character on The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) when he wakes up in the morning.
Started his "acting career" at the age of 4 when he frightened his mother by playing a dead man or fainting theatrically.
Confirmed his separation from Jessica Schwarz in May 2006.
Member of the Short Film and Cinefondation Jury in the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
Dubbed the voice of Kinai in Brother Bear and Lightning McQueen in Pixar animated film Cars. (German Version).
Manuel Huerga chose Daniel Brühl, whose mother is Spanish, to play Salvador Puig Antich because he didn't want to tell a Spanish story, but a universal drama. This was Brühl's first shooting at his place of birth Barcelona.
Daniel Brühl dubbed his own part for the Castillian version in the film Cargo.
Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe revealed that he has high respect for Daniel Brühl as one of his favorite actors, along with Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal.
Brühl has just bought the car of his dreams (a convertible orange, model Peugeot 304, of 1970) besides a house with three terraces in full Prenzlauer Berg.
Brühl said in an interview that if he has to choose on who is deserving to play the character of Jan in the up and coming Hollywood remake of The Edukators, Jake Gyllenhaal is his choice to play his part.
Daniel's father is a documentary filmmaker. At first, he did not want Daniel to persue acting, because he felt actors were shallow and vain individuals.However, after observing his son's obvious mastery of acting, he began to support his career choice.