Daniel Brühl

Brühl in 2015
Born Daniel César Martín Brühl González
16 June 1978 (age 40)
Barcelona, Spain
Residence Berlin, Germany
Occupation Actor
Years active 1995–present
Spouse(s) Felicitas Rombold
(m. 201?)
Children 1
Daniel César Martín Brühl González (German pronunciation: [ˈbʁyːl ɡɔnˈttsa.ləs] (
listen); born 16 June 1978) is a German-Spanish actor. He began his work at a young age
in a German soap opera called Verbotene Liebe in 1995. In 2003, his starring role in the
German 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 both European and American productions in
several different languages.
He was introduced to mainstream U.S. audiences with his breakout role of Fredrick
Zoller, a German war hero in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, and appeared in
such films as The Bourne Ultimatum, The Fifth Estate and A Most Wanted Man. Brühl
received widespread critical acclaim and further recognition for his portrayal of former
Formula 1 driver Niki Lauda in the Ron Howardbiographical film Rush. In 2016, Brühl
made his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in Captain America: Civil War,
portraying Helmut Zemo.

Brühl was born in Barcelona, Spain.[1] His father was German Brazilian TV director
Hanno Brühl, who was born in São Paulo, Brazil.[2][3] His Spanish mother was Marisa
González Domingo, a Catalan teacher. He has a brother and a sister, Oliver and Miriam.
Shortly after his birth, his family moved to Cologne, Germany, where he grew up and
attended the Dreikönigsgymnasium. A fluent English-speaker, he grew up speaking
Catalan,[4] German, Spanish, French, and Portuguese.[5]
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}In 2006, Brühl separated from his longtime girlfriend and later fiancée, actress Jessica
Schwarz, whom he had met on the set of the 2001 film No Regrets.[13] Since 2010, he
has been in a relationship with practicing psychologist and former model Felicitas
Rombold.[14] They have a son together, Anton Hanno (b. October 2016),[15] and
married sometime between then and early 2018.[16]