Daniel Bruhl - Biography

Last Editor: marie-noel				Daniel Bruhl Biography -   Name : Daniel Bruhl Birth name : Daniel César Martín Brühl González Domingo Date of birth : June 16, 1978 Place of birth : Barcelona, Spain Profession : Actor Height : 5' 9¼" (1.76 m) Years active : 1995–present Notable roles : Alex in Good Bye Lenin! Paul Krantz in Love in Thoughts Hortsmayer in Joyeux Noël Salvador in Salvador (Puig Antich)

Daniel Bruhl Trivia -

He is son of German director Hanno Brühl. He used to be in a band called Purge, he was the singer. He was engaged to Jessica Schwarz from 2001 to 2006. He was named as one of European films' Shooting Stars by European Film Promotion in 2003. His father was German and mother was Spanish. He speaks fluent Spanish. He grew up in Cologne, Germany. He 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. He was raised bilingually (German and Spanish). Jessica Schwarz gave him the nickname "Gollum" 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. He 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.

Daniel Bruhl Detailed Biography -

Daniel César Martín Brühl González Domingo was born on June 16, 1978. He 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 Catalan. 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. 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, Brühl 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 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 American actress Robert Pattinson. At twenty-eight years, Brühl is still unmarried and busy with his career. He has recently separated from his long time sweet-heart, actress Jessica Schwarz, to whom he was engaged.