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Daniel César Martín Brühl González (German: [ˈdaːni̯eːl ˈbʁyːl, -ni̯ɛl -]; Spanish: [daˈnjel ˈbɾul ɡonˈθaleθ]; born 16 June 1978) is a German-Spanish actor. He has received various accolades, including three European Film Awards and three German Film Awards, along with nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and a BAFTA Award. 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 through his breakthrough performance as Fredrick Zoller, a Nazi German war hero in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (2009), and appearances 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. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Brühl portrays Helmut Zemo in Captain America: Civil War (2016) and the Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021). He also starred as Dr. László Kreizler in the Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated period drama television series The Alienist (2018–2020), for which he earned a nomination for the Golden Globe Award as Best Actor in a Television Motion Picture at the 76th Golden Globe Awards in 2018. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Brühl, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Daniel Brühl
Albin Grau
for Albin Grau in Schreck: The Man in the Shadow (Biopic)
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Set in the artistic turbulence of 1920s Berlin and Munich, the film follows Max Schreck, a talented but enigmatic character actor in the German Expressionist theater scene. Far from a monster, Max is a gentle, introverted man who prefers long walks in the forest to the spotlight of fame. He is deeply devoted to his wife, Fanny, and views acting as a spiritual transformation, not a pursuit of celebrity. The central narrative focuses on his casting by the visionary and demanding director F.W. Murnau for an unauthorized adaptation of Dracula titled Nosferatu. The film details the grueling, guerrilla-style production in the Carpathian mountains and the Baltic Sea, where Schreck’s method acting and frightening physical transformation begin to blur the lines between the man and the monster for the rest of the cast. The story deals with the aftermath: the film is nearly destroyed by a lawsuit from Bram Stoker’s widow, and Schreck must return to the stage, forever haunted by the shadow he created, struggling to be seen as an artist rather than a nightmare.
