Daniel César Martín Brühl González Domingo (German: [bʀyːl] (13px ); born 16 June 1978 in Barcelona, Spain), known simply as Daniel Brühl, is a German actor. He began his work at a young age in a German soap opera called Forbidden Love in 1995. In 2003, his starring role in the German film Good Bye, Lenin! received wider recognition and critical acclaim which garnered him the European Film Award for Best Actor and the German Film Award for Best Actor. Brühl has worked in both European and American productions in several different languages. He was introduced to mainstream U.S. audiences with his breakout role of Frederik Zoller, a German war hero in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, and appeared in films such as The Bourne Ultimatum, The Fifth Estate and A Most Wanted Man. Brühl received widespread critical acclaim and further recognition for his portrayal of former Formula 1 driver Niki Lauda in the Ron Howard biographical film Rush. For his role as Lauda, he received multiple award nominations including the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Critic's Choice Award for Best Supporting Actor, Screen Actors Guild Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Nominations
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role, Goya Award for Best Actor, Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Teen Choice ...
Movies
Captain America: Civil War, Rush, Colonia, Inglourious Basterds, Good Bye, Lenin!, The Fifth Estate, The Face of an Angel, Burnt, Woman in Gold, The Edukators, A Most Wanted Man, The Bourne Ultimatum, Ladies in Lavender, 2 Days in Paris, Eva, Joyeux Noël, Love in Thoughts, The Zookeeper's Wife, The...
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When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids' agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money.
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I live between Barcelona and Berlin. Staying in Spain over the winter and Berlin for spring and summer is an ideal combination.
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I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because they're insisting on doing comedies.
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When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him. And he's still very present on TV because he's commenting for Formula One.
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I have one car that works; it's fast and safe: an Audi 5. And I have two old cars that never work: an old Peugeot convertible, and an Alfa Romeo Giulia.
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Well, my first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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Eating is my main hobby now, and most of what I do on the weekend revolves around that.
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A dream my girlfriend and I have is to move to New York for a year or two because we just love the city. I would take some acting classes.
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[on owning the 'Bar Raval' in Berlin-Kreuzberg] My cooking skills are not the best. That's why I decided to open a restaurant. I have some great chefs and professional cooks who do very, very good Spanish food, Spanish tapas in Berlin. Still far away from a Michelin star.[2015]
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We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.
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 Ein Freund von mir (2006) in Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Düsseldorf and Cologne (22 October 2006).
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Being a pacifist, he was a conscientious objector and did civilian service.
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Has a brother and a sister.
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Started his acting career at the age of 4 when he frightened his mother by playing a dead man or fainting theatrically.
Was born in Barcelona to a Spanish mother and a German father. Said in an interview that the reason he was born in Spain was that his mother didn't trust German hospitals and the family returned to Cologne soon after his birth. He spent a lot of his summers in Barcelona though.
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Grew up in Cologne, Germany.
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He was raised trilingual (German, Catalan and Spanish).
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2003: Named as one of European films' Shooting Stars by European Film Promotion.
$4 Million
