Daniel César Martín Brühl ( listen (help·info); born 16 June 1978) is a Spanish born 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 German tragicomedy 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.
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Daniel César Martín Brühl ( listen (help·info); born 16 June 1978) is a Spanish born 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 German tragicomedy 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 many countries both Europe and America and in several languages. He starred in many European films like The Edukators, Ladies in Lavender, Joyeux Noël and Salvador (Puig Antich). He is fluent in German, English, Spanish, French and Catalan.
He was introduced to mainstream US audiences in the role of Frederik Zoller, a German war hero in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and in a minor role in The Bourne Ultimatum. Some of his more recent films are Et si on vivait tous ensemble?, Eva. Brühl will portray Niki Lauda in Ron Howard film Rush.

Personal life [edit]
Brühl was born in Arenys de Munt, Catalonia. His father was the late German TV director Hanno Brühl and his mother was a catalan teacher. 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 multilingual home, he speaks Spanish, German, Catalan, French , English and has a solid basis of Japanese. Brühl is a citizen of both Germany and Spain.
In 2006, Brühl separated from his long-time girlfriend and later fiancée, actress Jessica Schwarz, whom he had met on the set of the 2001 film Nicht bereuen.
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