Daniel Brühl was born on June 16, 1978, in Gracia, Barcelona. His father was a theater and television director while his mother worked as a teacher in Spain. He moved to Germany during his childhood and grew up in Cologne.
How did he start? Brühl began his career in the seventh art with Schlaraffenland (1999) and was later cast in Deeply (2000), a film starring Kirsten Dunst. However, he achieved worldwide recognition with Good Bye, Lenin! (2003), a film set at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Daniel Brühl is an actor who speaks several languages, including English, German, Portuguese, French, and Spanish. This incredible skill has allowed him to take on different projects and films from different countries. Let’s go over some of his latest films:
7 Days in Entebbe: Based on true events and directed by multi-award-winning director José Padilha, the film delves into the 1976 hijacking of Air France Flight 139 en route from Tel Aviv to Paris, and the rescue mission that followed. Starring Rosamund Pike and Eddie Marsan, the film tells the distressing human story behind the global crisis that changed history.
Woman in Gold: a film that tells the true story of a woman's journey to reclaim her inheritance and obtain justice. Sixty years after fleeing Vienna during World War II, our Jewish protagonist decides to recover the family possessions taken by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting, the portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I.
A Most Wanted Man: the film follows a young Russian man tortured half to death. His identity is called into question when he turns up in Hamburg's Islamic community. Both German and US security agencies are interested in establishing whether he is a victim or an extremist. A film starring Willem Dafoe (At Eternity’s Gate, The Florida Project), Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire), and Rachel McAdams (Southpaw, Midnight in Paris).
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