Alex Brendemühl
Languages Catalan: native, German: native, Spanish: native, English: fluent, French: fluent
Residence Barcelona
Place of birth Barcelona
Nationality German, French, Spanish
Hair brown
Eyes blue-green
Training
1993 Institut del Teatre Barcelona
Pitch of the voice vocal training
Musical instruments bassoon, saxophon
Sports Alpine skiing, Kiteboarding, Inline skating
Driving licence Car class, Motorcycle class
Work as Director and Screenwriter

Alex Brendemühl was born in 1972 in Barcelona and trained at the Institut del Teatre Barcelona, graduating in 1993. Of Spanish and French nationality, he works fluently across multiple languages and has built an exceptional career spanning Spanish, French, and German cinema.

His earlier credits include Jaime Rosales’s The Hours of the Day, Lucia Puenzo’s Wakolda, which premiered at Cannes 2013, and Nicole Garcia’s From the Land of the Moon, which premiered in competition at Cannes 2016 in which he starred alongside Marion Cotillard.

Since then, Alex Brendemühl has remained a prominent figure in European film. He received the Goya Award nomination for Best Actor and the Gaudi Award for Best Actor for his performance in Elena Martin’s Creatura (2022), as well as the Gaudi Award for Best Supporting Actor for Historias para no contar and for Creatura in 2024. Further recent credits include the Sky Atlantic/AMC series Mary & George and Christian Petzold’s Transit.

He is based in Barcelona and continues to work extensively across Spanish and German productions.

Film & TV   Selection

2023
Hate Songs
2023
Morlaix
2023
Das Glück der Tüchtigen
2023
Mary & George
2022
Akelarre
2022
El Buzo (Der Taucher)
2022
Creatura
2022
Historias para no contar (Stories not to be told)
2022
Unbestechlich
2021
Barcelona Krimi
2019
El silencio de la ciudad blanca
2019
L'ofrena
2019
Akelarre
2019
Le Prince
2018
Tatort Dortmund - "Inferno"
2018
7 Reasons to Run Away
2018
Der Taucher
2017
Transit
2017
Petra
2017
The Prayer (La Prière)
2017
La Gallina
2017
Detour
2017
Der Kriminalist - "Esthers Geheimnis"
2017
Django
2017
El pati i la lluna
2016
Rewind
2016
Truman
2016
From the Land of the Moon (OT: Mal de Pierres)
2016
Wann endlich küsst du mich
2016
7 años
2016
Taunuskrimi - "Böser Wolf"
2016
Marjorie
2015
Carlos, Rez Emperador
2015
Call me Francesco
2014
Twice Upon a Time in the West
2014
Heidi Schneider steckt fest
2014
The Invisible Artery
2014
Les petites demmes de Paris
2014
Ma-Ma
2014
Le Sanctuaire
2014
Kommissarin Lukas - "Der Wald"
2013
Eltern
2013
Beste Freundinnen
2013
Wakolda (The German Doctor)
2013
Die Abmachung
2013
Falling Star (OT: Stella Cadente)
2013
Murieron por encima de sus posibilidades
2012
Nemez
2012
Die Vermessung der Welt
2011
Insensibles
2011
Meublés La Casita Blanca
2010
The Mosquito Net
2010
Among Wolves
2010
Forever Young
2009
Rage
2009
Die Liebe der Kinder
2009
The Consul of Sodom
2009
Los sentidos de la muerte - "El sonido"
2009
Les veus del Pamano
2008
Elles et moi
2008
Plou a Barcelona
2008
199 Tips to Be Happy
2008
Las dos vidas de Andrés Rabadán
2008
Pretextos
2007
Die Stille vor Bach
2006
53 días de invierno
2006
L'ombre d'un crime
2006
Remake
2006
About crying - Lo bueno de llorar
2006
La silla
2006
ME (OT: Yo)
2006
Ausentes
2006
Vorvik
2005
Mar rojo
2005
Omar Martínez
2004
Searching for Love
2004
Unconscious (OT: Inconscientes)
2003
In the City
2003
The Hours of the Day
2003
Młnica
2002
Le secret de la belle de Mai
2000
Quia
2000
Andorra. Entre el torb i la Gestapo
2000
El comisario
2000
Nissaga l'herencia
2000
Women
1999
I Will Survive
1999
A Bench in the Park
1999
Lluis Maria Güell
1996
Razones sentimentales

Festivals and Awards

2024

Creatura - Gaudi Awards Best Supporting Actor

2023

Historias para no contar - Gaudi Awards 2023 - Best Supporting Actor

2022

Creatura - Best Actor Goya Awards

2022

Creatura - Best Actor Gaudi Awards