Daniel César Martín Brühl González Domingo ( listen (help·info); born June 16, 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. Raised in a fully bilingual home...
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Daniel César Martín Brühl González Domingo ( listen (help·info); born June 16, 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. Raised in a fully bilingual home, he speaks German and Spanish fluently as well as Catalan, French and English. 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 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...
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