Daniel Brühl Movies and Career Information

Daniel César Martín Brühl González Domingo ( listen (help·info); born 16 June 1978) is a German-Spanish actor. He is best known as Daniel Brühl. Brühl was born in Barcelona, Spain, the son of the late 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. Brought up in a fully bilingual home, he speaks German, Spanish, English, French and Catalan. 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 in 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 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