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Daniel César Martín Brühl González ( german : [ ˈdaːni̯eːl ˈbʁyːl, -ni̯ɛl – ] ( ) ; born 16 June 1978 ) [ 2 ] is a spanish and german actor, film conductor and producer. He received his first german Film Award for Best Actor for his roles in Das Weisse Rauschen (The White Sound) ( 2001 ), Nichts Bereuen (No Regrets) ( 2001 ), and Vaya con Dios ( 2002 ). His starring character in the german movie Good Bye, Lenin! ( 2003 ) received widespread recognition and critical applaud and garnered him the European Film Award for Best Actor and another german Film Award for Best Actor. [ 3 ]

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He was introduced to mainstream U.S. audiences with his discovery role as Fredrick Zoller, a german war hero in Quentin Tarantino ‘s Inglourious Basterds ( 2009 ), and appeared in films like The Bourne Ultimatum ( 2007 ), The Fifth Estate ( 2013 ), and A Most Wanted Man ( 2014 ). Brühl received widespread critical applaud and far recognition for his portrayal of former Formula 1 driver Niki Lauda in the biographic film Rush ( 2013 ) for which he earned nominations including the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Critic ‘s Choice Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Brühl portrays Helmut Zemo in Captain America: Civil War ( 2016 ) and the Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier ( 2021 ). He besides starred as Dr. László Kreizler in the Emmy – and Golden Globe -nominated menstruation drama television serial The Alienist ( 2018–2020 ) for which he earned a nomination for the Golden Globe Award as Best Actor in a Television Motion Picture. [ 4 ] Brühl has worked in both European and American productions in respective languages ( English, Spanish, German, French, Polish, and Chinese ) and played at least nine different nationalities, including Polish ( Ladies in Lavender ), spanish ( 7 Days in Havana, Salvador ), french ( 2 Days in Paris ), Hungarian ( The Countess ), german ( Inglourious Basterds, Entebbe ), austrian ( Rush, Woman in Gold ), British ( Burnt ), American ( The Alienist ) and Sokovian ( a fabricated eastern european nation in Captain America: Civil War ). [ 5 ] [ 3 ]

early animation [edit ]

Daniel César Martín Brühl González was born on 16 June 1978 in Barcelona, Spain. [ 6 ] His founder was german television film director and documentalist Hanno Brühl, who was born in São Paulo, Brazil. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] His mother is Marisa González Domingo, a spanish teacher. [ 9 ] He was born in Spain because his mother did not reliance german doctors. shortly after his parentage, the class moved to Cologne, Germany, where he grew up. He has a buddy, Oliver, and a sister, Miriam. They were raised speaking spanish, german, Catalan, and French. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] He attended junior-grade school at the Dreikönigsgymnasium, the oldest educate in Cologne. [ 12 ] [ 3 ] [ 13 ]

career [edit ]

1995–2002 : early work [edit ]

Daniel Brühl began acting at a youthful old age despite not having any conventional trail as an actor. He participated in children ‘s theater at school and first earned money at age 8 doing radio receiver plays, followed by influence in a dubbing studio leading to one of the dubbing actors to recommend the adolescent to a talent agency. At long time 15, Brühl landed a humble part in the television film Svens Geheimnis, played the street kid Benji in the soap opera Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love) ( 1995 ), and continued to feature in television series in the follow years. [ 14 ] In 1999, he appeared in his film debut as Checo in Paradise Mall ( Schlaraffenland ) and voiced Kom in the german adaptation of Le château des singes. In 2000, he starred in his first gear main function as Markus Baasweiler in No More School ( Schule ) and was cast as Jay in Deeply. In 2001, he continued to play chief roles as the schizophrenic Lukas in Hans Weingartner ‘s critically acclaimed debut film Das Weisse Rauschen (The White Sound), as Daniel in Nichts Bereuen (No Regrets), and as Marek in Honolulu. In 2002, he starred as Arbo in Vaya con Dios and as boxer Marko Stemper in Elefantenherz (Elephant Heart). He won the german Film Award ( 2002 ) for Best Actor, the Bavarian Film Award ( 2001 ) for Best New Actor, and the New Faces Award ( 2002 ) for Best Actor for his performance in Das Weisse Rauschen, Nichts Bereuen, and Vaya con Dios. He won the german Film Critics Award ( 2003 ) for Best Actor for Das Weisse Rauschen and Vaya con Dios. For Das Weisse Rauschen, Brühl insisted on meeting person with paranoid schizophrenia to avoid the risk of making the character look clichéd. Two decades subsequently, he still considers it his most difficult character to portray and comments that “ It was important for me to explore my own lunacy, to believe in what I was doing and to convince myself that I was suffering from that disease, so it was quite unmanageable. ” [ 15 ] The film has been widely cited by the academic community in discussing and understand schizophrenia due to its naturalistic depicting. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ] [ 12 ]

2003–2008 : breakthrough and early success [edit ]

Brühl in 2004 His international discovery function came in 2003 as Alex Kerner in Wolfgang Becker ‘s german tragicomedy Good Bye, Lenin! which tells about a german class that lived during the union of Germany. The film became one of the most successful german films to go steady, receiving nominations at the Golden Globe Awards and the BAFTA Awards and winning at the European Film Awards, German Film Awards, Cesar Awards, and London Film Critics ‘ Circle among others. It was sold to more than 65 countries, reaching an estimated six million cinema-goers cosmopolitan. In that year, Brühl won awards including the european Film Awards Peoples ‘s Choice Award for Best European Actor and the European Film Award for Best Actor for the role. He besides won his moment german Film Award as Best actor for both his performance in the film and in Elefantenherz. He then voiced Kenai in the german interpretation of Brother Bear. Brühl reached further recognition in 2004 reuniting with film maker Hans Weingartner and starring as the anti-capitalist activist Jan in the internationally successful film The Edukators (Die Fetten Jahre sind vorbei). The film became a fad movie as part of a “ german New Wave ” and received a 10-minute resist ovation at its premier at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival where it was nominated for the Palme d’Or. Brühl earned a nomination for the European Film Award for Best Actor for his function. At the like time, he won the European Film Awards Peoples ‘s Choice Award for Best European Actor for his character as Paul in Love in Thoughts of which plot is based on the Steglitz student tragedy involving two teenagers who created a suicide club. In the same year, Brühl made his english-speaking movie debut in Ladies in Lavender, starring aboard english actresses Judi Dench and Maggie Smith as Andrea Marowski, and met Queen Elizabeth II who attended its premiere. [ 12 ] He besides played Frank in Farland. Brühl featured as Lieutenant Horstmayer of the german 93rd Infantry Regiment, a central character in the 2005 film Joyeux Noël, a trilingual World War I film based on the experiences of French, German and scots soldiers during the Christmas armistice of 1914. The film shows Brühl ‘s linguistic ability as he competently communicates in german, french and english throughout. In 2006, he was invited to be separate of the short movie and Cinéfondation juries of the Cannes Film Festival. He starred as Chris in Cargo and Karl in A Friend of Mine, voiced Lightning McQueen in the german version of Cars and reprised his voice-over role as Kenai in the german version of Brother Bear 2. In Cannes-nominated film Salvador (Puig Antich), he played Salvador Puig Antich, a spanish anarchist executed during the Franco era, marking his first time acting in his second speech. [ 12 ] In 2007, Brühl made a cameo appearance in 2 Days in Paris, a romantic comedy film directed by french actress Julie Delpy. He appeared in a little function as Martin Kreutz in the movie The Bourne Ultimatum. In 2008, he starred in the British-Russian production In Transit, in which he played a young Nazi soldier named Klaus inverse John Malkovich. He besides played Tonda in Krabat, which was based on a democratic german children ‘s narrative, and Marcos in A Bit of Chocolate .

2009–2015 : Worldwide recognition and critical acclaim [edit ]

In 2009, Brühl starred as Dr. Georg Rosen, a celebrated member of the International Safety Zone Committee in Nanking, China, in the German-Chinese-French biographic film John Rabe. He played Amaro in Las madres de Elna, István Thurzó in Julie Delpy ‘s third directorial film The Countess, Tobias Hardmann in Dinosaurier, and David Kern in Lila, Lila. He was introduced to mainstream U.S. audiences in the function of Fredrick Zoller, a german war bomber in Quentin Tarantino ‘s Inglourious Basterds, starring Brad Pitt, which premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival to widespread acclaim. The film won multiple awards and nominations, among them 8 Academy Award nominations including Best word picture. He and his co-star gain ensemble draw awards including the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. In May, Brühl decided to become active in a different field of filmmaking by launching the production ship’s company Fouronfilm together with Film1. [ 20 ] In 2010, he starred as Rupert in King’s Road ( Kóngavegur 7 ) and as Hans Krämer in The Coming Days ( Die kommenden Tage ). In 2011, he starred as cybernetics engineer Álex Garel employed by his former university to design automaton software in Eva, a skill fiction film set in the year 2041 . He portrayed English teacher Konrad Koch who introduced Britain ‘s football to his students in late nineteenth century Germany in Lessons of a Dream ( Der ganz große Traum ). He played the Oak Fairy in 2 Days in New York and starred as ethnology scholar Dirk whose dissertation is on the aging population in All Together ( Et si on vivait tous ensemble? ) aboard Jane Fonda and Geraldine Chaplin. He besides co-starred as Father Antonio with Clive Owen in the repugnance thriller Intruders. [ 21 ] In 2012, he starred as Iván Pelayo in Winning Streak ( The Pelayos ) and as Leonardo in 7 Days in Havana .
In 2013, he co-starred in The Fifth Estate, a film based on the initiation of WikiLeaks in which Brühl played co-founder Daniel Domscheit-Berg alongside Benedict Cumberbatch as julian Assange. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] In the same year, Brühl portrayed former Formula 1 driver Niki Lauda in the Ron Howard biographic film Rush face-to-face Chris Hemsworth. [ 24 ] After he was cast, he took Formula Three lessons and late more lessons with Hemsworth. He came to Vienna to meet Lauda who besides flew him to the brazilian Grand Prix to feel the race atmosphere where he watched in the pit with the Mercedes team, putting on an earphone to listen to conversations, and spoke to Formula 1 drivers. He had to endure seven hours of prosthetics casual during taping as his face structure was altered to take on Lauda ‘s features. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] Brühl added layers that are different from Lauda to find the mighty balance of not good imitating the person, but besides being creative. [ 27 ] The film was a commercial and critical success. For his authentic depiction of Lauda in terms of stress and affectation, he received multiple award nominations including the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Critic ‘s Choice Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In 2014, he starred in A Most Wanted Man as Maximilian alongside Philip Seymour Hoffman and Rachel McAdams, in The Face of an Angel as Thomas, and in the series The Trip as a patron at Terrace Bar. In 2015, Brühl was separate of the Berlinale jury along with Darren Aronofsky, Audrey Tautou, and Bong Joon-ho among others. [ 28 ] He reunited with conductor Wolfang Becker in one of his best performances as young writer Sebastian Zöllner in Me and Kaminski [ 29 ] and played Austrian fact-finding journalist Hubertus Czernin in the biographic drama Woman in Gold aboard Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds. He co-starred with Emma Watson and Michael Nyqvist in Colonia. [ 30 ] He besides played maître d’hôtel Tony Balerdi in Burnt alongside Bradley Cooper. In planning for the function, he was trained as a maître five hundred ‘ in Marcus Wareing ‘s Michelin -star restaurant in London. Brühl said that since he has done the film, he has much more respect and appreciation for food, taking his time while eating and tasting, imagining the incredible attempt behind it. [ 31 ] In the same year, Brühl became a partner at Berlin- and Hamburg-based production caller Amusement Park Film as a producer. [ 32 ]

2016–present : Marvel Cinematic Universe and farther recognition [edit ]

In 2016, he starred as Escherich in Alone in Berlin, and convicted murderer Jens Söring in Killing for Love. Brühl played the Marvel comics supervillain Helmut Zemo alongside Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr. in one of the most critically acclaim films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America: Civil War ( 2016 ). In Niki Caro ‘s World War II film The Zookeeper’s Wife ( 2017 ) about a marry copulate who saved hundreds of Jews, Brühl played Nazi zoologist Lutz Heck, who forced Jan and Antonina Żabiński to abandon the Warsaw Zoo. He starred as Ernst Schmidt in The Cloverfield Paradox, an installation in the Cloverfield franchise, and as Wilfried Böse, a initiation penis of the german administration Revolutionary Cells, in the action thriller Entebbe (7 Days in Entebbe) which recounts the report of Operation Entebbe. From 2018 to 2020, he played the title function as Dr. Laszlo Kreizler in The Alienist, an american period crime drama series based on the 1994 novel by Caleb Carr, aboard Luke Evans and Dakota Fanning. In his preparation, Brühl read about celebrated pioneering psychologists of the time ( Sigmund Freud, Josef Breuer, and Carl Jung ) and went to psychotherapy in Budapest barely to get an understanding of the way they worked and thought. His wife Felicitas, a commit psychotherapist, besides put him in refer with criminal psychologists. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] In 2019, he received nominations for the Golden Globe Award as Best Actor in a Television Motion Picture and the Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film for his character in the series which was nominated at the Primetime Emmy Awards as Outstanding Limited Series and the Golden Globe Awards as Best Television Motion Picture. In the like year, he played fertility doctor Thomas in My Zoe ( 2019 ) which was his first foray into executive production. 2021 marked Brühl ‘s directorial debut through his iniquity drollery film Next Door ( Nebenan ), which premiered in the Berlinale Competition section at the Berlin International Film Festival as a golden Bear campaigner, wherein he besides acted as Daniel, a bootless and mean interpretation of himself. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] [ 37 ] The movie won as Best Film and Brühl won as Best Actor in the Taormina Film Festival. [ 38 ] He reprised his role as Helmut Zemo in the Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] His dancing which he improvised in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier became viral and was released in the Zemo Cut. [ 41 ]

reception and acting style [edit ]

“ If Daniel Brühl were a natural American or british endowment, without a doubt he ‘d be a family diagnose, based on the level of his acting ability but besides on who he is, he ‘s here for the retentive draw, he ‘s highly healthy, balanced, sensible. … He ‘s complex enough as a human being to be able to do judge to the most complex parts. ”

— Peter Morgan on Brühl [ 42 ]
The roles Brühl takes on are much morally complex characters, men who are suffering with a deep-rooted iniquity that threatens to weigh down their built-in humanity. [ 11 ] He has utilized method acting acting since the beginning of his career. [ 43 ] A german and spanish national, he has played at least nine unlike nationalities ( polish, spanish, french, Hungarian, German, Austrian, British, American, and a fictional Sokovian ) and in his film has spoken English, Spanish, German, French, Polish, and Chinese ( well in the beginning four mentioned ). Writing for The Hollywood Reporter in 2018, Katie Kilkenny said : “ If Hollywood executives have a global, and particularly european, male part to cast, there ‘s a good casual Bruhl will make the short list. How did Bruhl become Hollywood ‘s answer to a global everyman ? The answer, collaborators say, lies not only in Bruhl ‘s multilingualism, but besides his option of collaborators and Hollywood ‘s welcome of an inflow of german talent in the last two decades. ” [ 3 ] In a 2017 interview with Gentleman’s Journal, Brühl attributed his success to finding his recess as an actor. [ 44 ] On being typecast as a villain after taking on an increasing number of antagonistic roles, Brühl said that though it was a privilege to have made Good Bye, Lenin!, it was besides a “ curse ” because he “ was constantly offered the separate of the sympathetic dainty ridicule ” and was refreshed and relieved when offered villain roles outside of Germany. The Hollywood Insider noted his atypical career discharge, “ He went from systematically playing the love interest in european Cinema to playing the villain in Hollywood ”. Baron Zemo became one of the most iconic villains in the Marvel Cinematic Universe despite having no superpowers because of Brühl ‘s performance. Film School Rejects remarks, “ even when embodying the role of a Nazi or another nefarious villain, Brühl manages to bring out the character ‘s humanness — no matter how fiddling of it there actually is ”. [ 11 ] [ 45 ] [ 46 ] [ 44 ] [ 29 ] Brühl has besides been described as having an “ natural likability and appeal ”. [ 47 ] The LA Times deemed his openness as such that “ even his sarcasm sounds aboveboard ”. He has besides been lauded for his influence ethic. He befriended militant Daniel Domscheit-Berg and racing driver Niki Lauda after meeting them in readiness for his roles. [ 48 ]

Public image [edit ]

Brühl is referred to as the ‘golden male child of german film ‘ and the ‘undisputed rule of the European acting elect ‘ by The Gentleman’s Journal on its May/June 2017 cover. He is besides regarded as the most recognizable german actor to emerge since the nation ‘s reunion. [ 44 ] [ 49 ] He graced the GQ Germany cover offspring in December 2015 and was the recipient of the GQ Film National Award at the 2015 GQ Men of the year Awards. [ 50 ] He besides headlined Esquire Spain, Esquire Germany, and Men’s Health Best Fashion magazine, and featured in Esquire UK. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] [ 53 ] [ 54 ] He shot a Vogue and GQ Germany ad with his wife besides. [ 55 ] He became a CUPRA ambassador in December 2020, launching the CUPRA Leon e-HYBRID as the post ‘s first circuit board hybrid exemplary. [ 56 ] In May 2021, he introduced its first 100 % electric model— the CUPRA Born. [ 57 ] In February 2017, he was honoured by the french government at the Berlin International Film Festival and awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his ‘major contribution to the influence of film culture in France, Germany, Europe and the world’, making him a Knight of the order of Arts and Literature. [ 58 ] He was offered membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in June 2017 to vote for the Oscars. In October 2018, Brühl accompanied Germany ‘s Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife Elke Büdenbender during their visit to Spain. [ 59 ]

personal animation [edit ]

In 2006, Brühl separated from his longtime girlfriend and late fiancée, actress Jessica Schwarz, whom he had met on the set of the 2001 film No Regrets. [ 60 ] Since 2010, he has been in a kinship with practicing psychotherapist, academician, and erstwhile model and Broadway actress Felicitas Rombold. [ 61 ] Their first son was born in October 2016, [ 62 ] and they married sometime between his parturition and early 2018. [ 63 ] The couple had a moment son in 2020. [ 64 ] His hobbies include running and hike, and he likes play and watching tennis, citing Rafael Nadal ( who is morganatic like him ) as his front-runner player. [ 65 ] closely every day, he uses a sauna in his Berlin apartment to get into a brooding state. [ 66 ]

philanthropy [edit ]

Since 2017, Brühl has been campaigning for the United Nations World Food Programme, the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize winner. In 2019, he supported the “ Do something for Europe ! ” first step to foster solidarity in Europe and The Global Fund ‘s Step Up The Fight first step to end AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. In the like year, he campaigned for Earth Alliance ‘s emergency Amazon Forest Fund to support partners working on the ground to protect the Amazon. In 2020, he was one of the 25 personalities to donate a personal item for the Los Fuer Lesbos ( Win for Lesvos ) Leave No One Behind campaign in support of refugees, donating his antique walking stick from the set of The Alienist. [ 67 ]

Writing [edit ]

Daniel Brühl ‘s record Ein Tag in Barcelona (Ullstein Verlag) invites readers to accompany him on a one-day travel through “ his ” Barcelona. The book is an invitation to go for a walk through parts of the city that are not in every tourist guide but are well connected to Brühl ‘s life in Barcelona. His book Tapas!, co-author with Atilano González, is besides an invitation to recreate the best dishes served at the Bar Raval in Berlin. [ 68 ]

  • Brühl, Daniel; Cáceres, Javier (2012). Ein Tag in Barcelona. Berlin: Ullstein Verlag. ISBN 978-3-550-08832-2.
  • Brühl, Daniel; Gonzales, Atilano (2014). ¡Tapas!: Die spanische Küche der Bar Raval. Königswinter: Heel Verlag. ISBN 978-3-86852-950-0.

other ventures [edit ]

Since 2011, Brühl has been the joint operator of a tapa bar in the Kreuzberg zone of Berlin called Bar Raval. [ 69 ] It offers authentic Spanish tapa cuisine vitamin a well as selected wines from different regions. It opened during the first weekend of the 2011 Berlinale and has since become a must on the Berlinale party calendar. Matches by Brühl ‘s favored football baseball club FC Barcelona are besides shown there on a regular basis, making it “ a piece of Barcelona in the in-between of Berlin ” american samoa well as “ a animation room ” for Brühl. [ 68 ] From February to October 2017, he was roast operator of a like prevention in Prenzlauer Berg, named Bar Gracia after Barcelona ‘s nightlife zone Gràcia, which closed ascribable to lack of fiscal success. [ 70 ] [ 71 ]

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