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 (2001), Nichts Bereuen (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.
He was introduced to mainstream international audiences with his breakthrough 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 acclaim and further recognition for his portrayal of former Formula 1 driver Niki Lauda in the biographical 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.
For Disney, he portrayed Daniel Domscheit-Berg in the 2013 Touchstone Pictures film The Fifth Estate, Erik Jan Hanussen in the 2021 20th Century Studios film The King's Man, and Baron Zemo in the 2016 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Captain America: Civil War and the 2021 TV series The Falcon and The Winter Soldier.
He also provided the German voices for Kenai in Brother Bear and Lightning McQueen in Cars.
