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Daniel César Martín Brühl González was born in Barcelona, Spain. He is the son of the German stage director Hanno Brühl and a Catalan professor mother. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to Cologne, Germany, where he grew up. He was raised in a fully bilingual home. So he can speak both German and Spanish fluently as well as Catalan. Brühl recently separated from his long-time girlfriend, actress Jessica Schwarz, to whom he was engaged.  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. However, he began his acting career early. Brühl, as he said "sort of grew into acting because, as a child, I had done children's theater at school and earned my first pocket money at the age of eight on radio plays. I quickly noticed that I liked doing this as I could use my voice." Work then followed in a dubbing studio and subsequently one of the dubbing actors recommended the teenager - who suggested that he might be interested to appear in front of the camera for a change - to a talent agency.  At the age of 15, Daniel had a small part in the TV film Svens Geheimnis and was truly infected by the acting bug. "I knew that this was what I wanted to do, but for my parents sake I said I would finish my schooling - although I would try to do as much acting as possible at the same time." During his national service year he weighed up the pros and cons of applying for a place at acting school, but decided "intuitively" against a formal drama training "because I didn't feel that this would be the right environment for me, to be with people for three to four years who all want the same thing and are in competition with one another. Moreover, I didn't want to commit myself in one particular direction." But that doesn't mean that he has completely rejected the idea of perhaps taking some course or other in certain aspects of artistic expression, possibly in the US for a couple of months. Indeed, Daniel has often toyed with the idea of going abroad to work, say in England, and this is something he would certainly have already done if he hadn't been so busy with film work [in Germany] over the last couple of years. "I have never regretted having made this decision," Daniel explains and agrees that he has had "quite a bit of luck" with the range of actor colleagues with whom he has had the privilege to work. "You do get to learn a lot, but I always have a clear idea of the role and work on it with the director."  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. Brühl made his English-speaking film debut in 2004's Ladies in Lavender, starring alongside British acting legends Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. 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. → Source: Interview by Martin Blaney at German Cinema.
• “There was a headline in an English paper that said 'Wow! Germans can be funny!' They were so proud in Germany.” • Daniel Brühl.  ↓ Spoilers ↓  GOOD BYE LENIN! - QUOTES• DB: “She's up there somewhere now. Maybe looking down at us. Maybe she sees us as tiny specks on the Earth's surface, just like Sigmund Jähn did back then. The country my mother left behind was a country she believed in; a country we kept alive till her last breath; a country that never existed in that form; a country that, in my memory, I will always associate with my mother." - Daniel Brühl as Alexander Kerner. • DB: "My mother outlived the GDR by three days. I believe it was a good thing she never learned the truth. She died happy. She wanted us to scatter her ashes to the winds. That's prohibited in Germany, both East and West. But we didn't care." [voiceover - last lines] - Daniel Brühl as Alexander Kerner. THE EDUKATORS - QUOTES• DB: "I've got news for you, Corporate Man: your days are numbered!" - Daniel Brühl as Jan. • DB: "We live in a capitalist dictatorship" - Daniel Brühl as Jan. • DB: "Fear is a powerful drug when you learn to use it." - Daniel Brühl as Jan. → More Daniel Brühl's Quotes ! Coming Soon ...  | ||||||||||
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