Daniel Hendler was born on 3 January 1976 and is a Uruguayan film, television, and theatre actor who works mainly in the cinema of Argentina, where he lives.
18 Facts About Daniel Hendler
2.
Daniel Hendler is known for his starring roles in films such as Bottom of the Sea, Family Law, The Paranoids, Phase 7 and award-winning Lost Embrace by director Daniel Burman, with whom he worked many times.
3.
Daniel Hendler made his debut as screenwriter and director with the film Norberto's Deadline in 2010.
4.
Daniel Hendler is part of the generation of actors who revitalized the Uruguayan cinema with films like 25 Watts, and is one of the regular actors of the so-called New Argentine Cinema.
5.
Daniel Hendler grew up in a family of Jewish heritage; his father was a merchant and his mother a keen theatergoer.
6.
Daniel Hendler was assistant professor and head of drama at the Catholic University of Montevideo.
7.
Daniel Hendler made some short films with Pablo Stoll and Juan Pablo Rebella.
8.
Daniel Hendler spent almost five years in the University of Architecture of Montevideo, plus some other years of theatrical training.
9.
In 25 Watts, Daniel Hendler plays a youngster from a quiet neighborhood of Montevideo who wanders without a clear direction while at the same time has to study for a test of Italian and has a crush on his tutor.
10.
Subsequently, Daniel Hendler won the Silver Bear for Best Actor in the Berlin International Film Festival for his work in Lost Embrace and Best Actor in the Lleida Latin-American Film Festival for Bottom of the Sea.
11.
In Bottom of the Sea, Daniel Hendler plays a paranoid architecture student who pursues his girlfriend's psychoanalyst suspecting she's being unfaithful.
12.
In those three films his characters are named "Ariel", considered Burman's alter ego; this is most noticeable in Lost Embrace, where Daniel Hendler plays a young Jew who research his Polish ancestry to get a passport and emigrate to Europe, as did the director in real life.
13.
Burman and Daniel Hendler met each other in 1998 when the first was visiting Uruguayan theatres with director Marco Bechis looking for an actor for Garage Olimpo.
14.
In 2007, The Paranoids was released with Daniel Hendler playing Luciano, a hermit and repressed children's parties entertainer who is based on film's director Gabriel Medina, who met Daniel Hendler during the filming of Bottom of the Sea.
15.
Daniel Hendler played the character Andres Goddzer in the 2012 telenovela Graduados, which proved a big success.
16.
Daniel Hendler received a Tato Award and a Martin Fierro award for his work.
17.
Daniel Hendler married Argentine film director Ana Katz in 2007, they have since separated.
18.
Daniel Hendler moved from Montevideo to Buenos Aires, and divides his time between Parque Centenario and Montevideo.