Daniel Brühl has certainly proven over the years he can do everything from comedy and romance to action and drama. While most know Brühl for his role as Helmut Zemo in Captain America: Civil War or Dr. Laszlo Kreizler on The Alienist, he actually got his start on the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe. The 42-year-old Spanish-German actor would then go on to have his breakthrough role in 2003’s Goodbye, Lenin!, in which Alex Kerner (Brühl) has to pretend that communism still exists in Berlin after the fall of the wall since a jarring incident could kill his recently coma recovered mother.
Although, Brühl’s first big English-speaking role was in 2004’s Ladies in Lavender, his breakout role for US audiences was as Fredrick Zoller in 2009’s Inglourious Basterds. Brühl is also an accomplished voice actor and has not only dubbed his own roles (in English, Spanish, German, and French) but has dubbed all sorts of things (including the German-language version of Cars and a lot of Jackie Chan’s B-movies). Since the premieres of The King’s Man and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier have been delayed, you can currently check out Brühl as Dr. Laszlo Kreizler in The Alienist: Angel of Darkness (which airs Sundays on TNT). If you need more Brühl in your life (which you do), why not check out some of the following roles? Then head to Disney+ so you can watch Captain America: Civil War since The Falcon and the Winter Soldier has finally dropped on the platform.
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Daniel Brühl as Alexander Kerner in Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)
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Daniel Brühl as Andrea Marowski in Ladies in Lavender (2004)
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Daniel Brühl as Frank in Farland (2004)
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Daniel Brühl as Jan in The Edukators (Die Fetten Jahre Sind Vorbei) (2004)
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Daniel Brühl as Chris in Cargo (2006)
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Daniel Brühl as Salvador Puig Antich in Salvador (Puig Antich) (2006)
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Daniel Brühl as Lukas in 2 Days in Paris (2007)
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Daniel Brühl as Tonda in Krabat (2008)
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Daniel Brühl as Dr. Georg Rosen in John Rabe (2009)
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Daniel Brühl as István Thurzó in The Countess (2009)
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Daniel Brühl as Fredrick Zoller in Inglourious Basterds (2009)
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Daniel Brühl as David Kern in Lila, Lila (2009)
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Daniel Brühl as Hans Krämer in The Coming Days (Die Kommenden Tage) (2010)
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Daniel Brühl as Álex Garel in Eva (2011)
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Daniel Brühl as Spanish Businessman in 7 Days in Havana (2012)
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Daniel Brühl as Niki Lauda in Rush (2013)
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Daniel Brühl as Daniel Domscheit-Berg in The Fifth Estate (2013)
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Daniel Brühl as Max in A Most Wanted Man (2013)
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Daniel Brühl as Thomas in The Face of an Angel (2014)
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Daniel Brühl as Sebastian Zöllner in Me and Kaminski (2015)
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Daniel Brühl as Hubertus Czernin in Woman in Gold (2015)
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Daniel Brühl as Daniel in Colonia (2015)
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Daniel Brühl as Tony Balerdi in Burnt (2015)
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Daniel Brühl as Ernst Schmidt in The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)
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Daniel Brühl as Wilfried Böse in 7 Days in Entebbe (2018)
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Daniel Brühl as Dr. Laszlo Kreizler on The Alienist (2018-2020)
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Daniel Brühl as Baron Helmut Zemo on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021)
