Àlex Brendemühl i Gubern (born 27 November 1972) is a Spanish-German actor. He has appeared in more than 60 films and television shows since 1995.
Life and career
Àlex Brendemühl was born in
Barcelona
Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...
on 27 November 1972 to a Spanish mother and a German father.
He studied at the
German School of Barcelona and the
Institut del Teatre.
He made his feature film debut as an actor in ' (1995).
Brendemühl played the lead role of the Nazi war criminal
Josef Mengele
Josef Mengele (; 16 March 19117 February 1979) was a Nazi German (SS) officer and physician during World War II at the Russian front and then at Auschwitz during the Holocaust, often dubbed the "Angel of Death" (). He performed Nazi hum ...
in the 2013 film ''
The German Doctor''.
Selected filmography
* ''
The Hours of the Day'' (2003)
* ''
In the City'' (2003)
* ''
Inconscientes'' (2004)
* ''
The Silence Before Bach'' (2007)
* ''
199 Tips to Be Happy'' (2008)
* ''
Wallace Line
The Wallace Line or Wallace's Line is a faunal boundary line drawn in 1859 by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace and named by the English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley.
It separates the biogeographic realms of Asia and 'Wallacea', a ...
'' (2009)
* ''
El cónsul de Sodoma'' (2009)
* ''
Heroes'' (2010)
* ''
The Mosquito Net'' (2010)
* ''
Entrelobos'' (2010)
* ''Insensibles'' (2012, also known as ''
Painless'')
* ' (2012)
* ''
The German Doctor'' (2013)
* ''
Falling Star'' (2014)
* ''
Ma Ma'' (2015)
* ''
Chiamatemi Francesco'' (2015)
* ''
From the Land of the Moon'' (2016)
* ''
7 años'' (2016)
* ''
Django'' (2017)
* ''
Transit'' (2018)
* ''
The Prayer'' (2018)
* ''
Petra'' (2018)
* ''
The Offering'' (2020)
* ''
Staring at Strangers'' (2022)
* ''
Little Girl Blue'' (2023)
* ''
Creatura'' (2023)
Accolades
References
External links
*
1972 births
Living people
20th-century Spanish male actors
21st-century Spanish male actors
Male actors from Barcelona
Spanish people of German descent
Spanish male film actors
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