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Daniel Bruhl Profile |
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Birth Date: June 16, 1978
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Birth Place: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Birth Name: Daniel César Martín Brühl González Domingo
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Height: 5'9"
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Biography |
Daniel César Martín Brühl González Domingo, born June 16,
1978) is a German actor.
Brühl was born in Barcelona, Spain, the son of German stage
director Hanno Brühl and a Catalan professor mother. 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 Catalan.
Brühl recently separated from his long time girlfriend,
actress Jessica Schwarz, to whom he was engaged.
Brühl 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 world-wide. 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 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
Cinéfondation juries in the Cannes Film Festival. 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 in the Franco era.
Brühl's upcoming projects include the Anglo-Russian
production In Transit where he will be playing a young Nazi
soldier opposite John Malkovich. In June 2006, he filmed Two
Days in Paris, a romantic comedy film which was directed by
French actress Julie Delpy who also stars in the film. Brühl
has been offered many projects. He has just finished filming
Krabat, based on a popular German children's story, which
will premiere in German cinemas in early 2008. Also, last
August, he finished filming the vampire motion picture After
Dark, a vampire love story film also starring Canadian
actress Elisha Cuthbert and English actor Robert Pattinson.
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Other Information |
Son of German director Hanno Brühl.
Singer of the band "Purge"
Was engaged to Jessica Schwarz from 2001 to 2006.
2003: Named as one of European films' Shooting Stars by
European Film Promotion.
Spanish mother and German father.
Speaks fluent Spanish.
Grew up in Cologne, Germany.
Was born in Barcelona to a Spanish mother and a German
father. The family moved to Cologne, Germany soon after
Daniel's birth, but he spent a lot of his summers in
Barcelona.
Was raised bilingually (German and Spanish).
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.
Has a brother and a sister.
Being a pacifist, he was a conscientious objector and did
civilian service.
Broke Will Smith's world record for most public appearances
on the red carpet in 12 hours together with Jürgen Vogel by
attending the premiere of their movie Freund von mir, Ein
(2006) in Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Düsseldorf and Cologne
(22 October 2006). |
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since October 8, 2007