Daniel Lundh

Daniel Lundh was born in Malmö, Sweden. He is the son of Swedish actor and art dealer Lennart Lundh and Hélène, a French woman of Jewish Sephardic decent. As a child, Daniel grew up in a multilingual household, speaking English, French and Swedish. He is also fluent in Spanish, speaks Hebrew and some Arabic. It was not unusual for the family to travel across Europe or America in their motor-home, exposing Daniel to different cultures and walks of life from an early age. After high school, he moved to New York, where he decided to pursue acting as a profession. It was also around this time that his father passed from cancer. Daniel enrolled at The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and H.B.Studios, while occasionally sitting in on sessions at The Actors Studio. After a symbolic door-opening and one-liner for Norman Jewison, Daniel got his first big break in O Jerusalem (2006), directed by Élie Chouraqui. The following year he garnered a nomination for most promising talent at the French Césars, for his portrayal of the melancholic son of a brothel Madam in Délice Paloma (2007). In 2008, he starred as the vengeful bastard Massimo in a screen adaptation of King Lear, as well as one of Saddam Hussein's doomed son-in-laws in the BBC & HBO joint venture House of Saddam (2008). In 2010 he joined an ensemble cast led by Jean Reno in EuropaCorp's gangster thriller 22 Bullets (2010). In 2011, he gave life to Spanish bullfighter Juan Belmonte in Woody Allen's Oscar-nominated, world-wide, box-office hit, Midnight in Paris (2011). Daniel recently starred back-to-back in the two successful Netflix series, High Seas (2019) and Morocco: Love in Times of War (2017). Upcoming projects include twelfth-century historical drama Glow & Darkness (2021), set in Spain and Italy, where he plays the very contrasting roles of both Prince Ferdinand of Navarra and Governor Mario. Aside from his stage and film work, Daniel writes and directs.