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Member of the jury, German actor Daniel Brühl
opening of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival at the Berlinale Palast. Photo by Siebbi. .

Top 10 Intriguing Facts about Daniel Brühl

Daniel César Martín Brühl González Domingo is a Spanish-German actor and filmmaker. 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 role in the German film Good Bye, Lenin! (2003) received widespread recognition and critical acclaim and garnered him the European Film Award for Best Actor and another German Film Award for Best Actor. Daniel César Martín Brühl González was born on 16 June 1978 in Barcelona. His father was German TV director and documentalist Hanno Brühl, who was born in São Paulo, Brazil.

His mother is Marisa González Domingo, a Spanish teacher. He was born in Spain because his mother did not trust German doctors. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Cologne, Germany, where he grew up. He has a brother, Oliver, and a sister, Miriam. They were raised speaking Spanish, German, Catalan, and French. Here are the Top 10 Intriguing Facts about Daniel Brühl.

1. Daniel is multi-lingual

Daniel Brühl at Berlinale 2020. Photo by Martin Kraft. .

Daniel can speak Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, and English but also understands Catalan. He is also one of the most prolific actors when it comes to dubbing his own work.

When dubbing, Daniel will often provide input and said that, “When you dub in different languages you can play with the strings and the different qualities. And you cannot even [completely] control it because, by itself, Spanish dubbing will always sound a bit more passionate, the German always sounds cold and drier, and, well, you know French. . .”

2. He has been acting professionally since 1995

Daniel got his start in 1995 on a German soap opera called Verbotene Liebe as a street kid named Benji. However, his breakout role didn’t happen until 2003 in the German film Good Bye, Lenin!, which won him the European Film Award for Best Actor, the European Film Audience Award for Best Actor, and the German Film Awards for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role.

Since then he’s appeared in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), In Transit (2008), Inglorious Basterds (2009), Rush (2013), The Fifth Estate (2013), Colonia (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), and will be in the upcoming The King’s Man.

3. He tied a knot with former model Felicitas Rombold

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. They two separated later on.

Daniel started dating Felicitas Rombold, who along with being a former model is a psychotherapist, in 2010. The couple eventually had a son named Anton Hanno in 2016 and announced they were expecting their second child in 2020. The pair got married during filming of season one of The Alienist.

4. He is the German voice of Lightning McQueen!

This one is mainly just here because it blew my mind. In his youth, due to his prowess for languages, Daniel dubbed “a lot of very trashy films — dubbing Jackie Chan in his worst B-movies and C-movies.”

Eventually he would be the voice of Lightning McQueen in the German version of Cars. He would not return to voice the character in the movie’s sequels.

5. Daniel is a joint-operator of a Tapas Bar

Daniel Bruhl at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Photo by gdcgraphics.

In 2011, along with Atilano González — who he met in 2003 at the Berlin Film Festival — Daniel opened a tapas bar called Bar Raval (named after Barcelona’s Raval district).

He considers Bar Raval a second home, saying in an interview that, “When I came to live in Berlin, I didn’t know any Spaniards I could speak with, and only spoke the language with my family. But in the bar I can speak Spanish and immerse myself in Spanish culture – eating, drinking, speaking, reading, and watching ‘la liga’.”

6. Daniel is a philanthropist

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!” initiative to foster solidarity in Europe and The Global Fund’s Step Up The Fight initiative to end AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.

In the same 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.

7. His father was also a movie director!

Felicitas Rombold and Daniel Brühl at Berlinale 2020. Photo by Martin Kraft..

Daniel Bruhl was born in Barcelona, Spain but grew up in Cologne, Germany. His father is TV director Hanno Brühl and his mother is a Spanish teacher. He attended the Dreikönigsgymnasium. He was brought up in a multilingual home and can speak Spanish, German, Catalan, French , English and some Japanese.

8. Daniel came to the limelight after acting in Captain America

For most people, Daniel Brühl first entered their radar when he was cast as Baron Zemo in Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War. There is some greatness with acting any marvel movies.

The return of his character in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier launched him back into the mainstream conversation, but Brühl has long been the Golden Boy of German Cinema. The polyglot actor has also been in notable French and Spanish films, grounding him as a fixture in multinational cinema.

9. He began acting at a very young age

Brühl began acting at a young age despite not having any formal training as an actor. He participated in children’s theater at school and first earned money at age 8 doing radio plays, followed by work in a dubbing studio leading to one of the dubbing actors to recommend the teenager to a talent agency.

At age 15, Brühl landed a small part in the TV 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 following years.

10. The roles he takes are often morally complex

Daniel Bruhl. Photo by Tasnim Aslam.

The roles Brühl takes on are often morally complex characters, men who are suffering with a deep-seated darkness that threatens to weigh down their inherent humanity.

He has utilized method acting since the beginning of his career. A German and Spanish national, he has played at least nine different nationalities (Polish, Spanish, French, Hungarian, German, Austrian, British, American, and a fictional Sokovian) and in his films has spoken English, Spanish, German, French, Polish, and Chines