Pretty Frenchmen
A list of French hotties (mostly actors) in alphabetical order.
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Alexandre Aja was born on 7 August 1978 in Paris, France. He is a producer and director, known for High Tension (2003), The Hills Have Eyes (2006) and Piranha 3D (2010). He is married to Laïla Marrakchi.- Actor
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Sensual, ambiguous, ultra sensitive French performer Jean-Hugues Anglade always had a reputation of intense and passionate actor. Any role, any language, Anglade seems to be able to do anything. From appearing integrally naked alongside Beatrice Dalle in "37.2 degrees in the morning", to playing an homosexual role in "The wounded man", from portraying the king of France in "Queen Margot", to playing a Canadian cop alongside Angelina Jolie and Ethan Hawke in "Taking lives", from playing Anne Parillaud's lover in "Nikita", to showing the 40-years-old-men crisis. Now Anglade is an established actor, a respected artist and man, who overcame the drama of his childhood.- Actor
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Edouard Baer was born on 1 December 1966 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He is an actor and writer, known for Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002), Molière (2007) and La bostella (2000).- Actor
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Jean-Marc Barr was born on 27 September 1960 in Bitburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He is an actor and producer, known for The Big Blue (1988), Lovers (1999) and Big Sur (2013).- Actor
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Philippe Bas was born on 31 October 1973 in Paris, France. He is an actor and producer, known for Profilage (2009), Empire of the Wolves (2005) and Madame le proviseur (1994).- Julien Baumgartner was born on 23 September 1976 in Wittenheim, Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin, France. He is an actor, known for The Tourist (2010), 4 garçons dans la nuit (2010) and Carnets d'ado (2001).
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The son of the renowned French sculptor Paul Belmondo, he studied at Conservatoire National Superieur d'Art Dramatique (CNSAD); after the minor stage performances he made his screen debut in À pied, à cheval et en voiture (1957) but the episodes with his participation were cut before release. However, the breakthrough role in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (1960) made him one of the key figures in the French New Wave. Since mid-60s he completely switched to commercial mainstream pictures and became a big comedy and action star in France. Following the example of Alain Delon he founded his own production company Cerito named after his grandmother's maiden name. In 1989 he was awarded Cesar for his performance in Itinerary of a Spoiled Child (1988) . Recently he returned to stage performing in the Théâtre Marigny, Paris, notably as Edmund Kean or Cyrano de Bergerac. He still appears in the movies but not so often as before preferring mostly dramatic roles. The president of France distinguished him with order of Legion of Honour. Belmondo had three children with his first spouse Elodie Constant: Patricia Belmondo ( who died in a fire in 1993), Florence Belmondo and Paul Belmondo. In 2003, he had another daughter, Stella Belmondo, with his second spouse Natty Belmondo. None of his children became actors though you could have seen his son Paul in an episodic role (the same as his father, at an earlier age) in Itinerary of a Spoiled Child (1988).- Actor
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Manuel Blanc was born on June 12, 1968 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France. His first movie, the André Téchiné classic I Don't Kiss (1991), earned him a César Award as Most Promising Actor in 1992 and established him in the French film and theater world. In his vast and varied career that has spanned over three decades, Blanc has worked with maverick directors like Jacques Deray, Josée Dayan, Édouard Molinaro, Werner Schroeter, Jérôme Savary and Philippe Calvario.
In 2001, he won the prestigious Molière Award for "Ladies Night", a comedy written by Anthony McCarten and Stephen Sinclair, adapted for the French stage by Jacques Collard. Other theater roles included "Tempête sur le pays d'Égypte" (1993/94), "Dommage qu'elle soit une putain" de John Ford (1997), "Trouée dans les nuages" (2005), "Journal secret" (2006) and "Parasites" (2009).
His most memorable films in the 1990s were Un crime (1993) with Alain Delon, Des feux mal éteints (1994) with Maria de Medeiros, Beaumarchais the Scoundrel (1996) with Fabrice Luchini and 1999 Madeleine (1999) with Anouk Aimée. With a bunch of high-budget movies and a huge pile of short films under his belt, Blanc became a household name with starring roles on popular TV shows like La rivière Espérance (1995), Contraband (2012), The Chalet (2017) (a mystery series produced by Netflix) and Chronicles of the Sun (2018).
He is one of director Antony Hickling's favorite actors. Hickling cast him in half a dozen short films as well as in his feature films Little Gay Boy (2013), One Deep Breath (2014), Where Horses Go to Die (2016) and Down in Paris (2021).
In addition to French, Manuel Blanc speaks English fluently. In 2014, his first novel "Carnaval" was published, followed by his second book "Les corps électriques" in 2018.- Actor
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One of the most popular and respected actors to come from the French "New Wave" film movement, Jean-Claude Brialy was born to a military family, which included one brother, in French colonial Algeria on March 30, 1933. Residing in various places while his father, a colonel with the French Army, went through the paces of his career, Brialy attended military school in 1946 and also worked in the theatre as a youth. He studied dramatics at a conservatory in Strasbourg, France, the Saint-Etienne Episcopal College.
Following time spent in the theatre, he moved to Paris in 1954 to pursue his career, without the support of his family, and worked various odd jobs before entering military service in Germany. Mixing in with a revolutionary group of artists that included Claude Chabrol and Jean-Luc Godard, he appeared as an extra in Jean Renoir's Elena and Her Men (1956) [Paris Does Strange things] and befriended other such rising film radicals as Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette while appearing in their short films. He grew in stature with featured roles in Girl in His Pocket (1957) [Girl in His Pocket] and L'ami de la famille (1957) [A Friend of the Family], but it was his friend Chabrol who provided him the leap to stardom with Le Beau Serge (1958), which is (arguably) considered the forerunner in "New Wave" filming. Co-starring Gérard Blain in the title role, Brialy played a city boy sophisticate returning to his simplified home village just to find that everything had changed and that his once promising friend (Blain) had become a chronic drunkard. He and Blain furthered their stars next playing each other's kin in Chabrol's The Cousins (1959), with Blain the innocent and Bialy the darkly disillusioned cousin. Bialy's association with other French avant-garde directors, including Godard, 'Francois Truffaut' and Louis Malle, placed him in excellent "New Wave" company alongside Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Pierre Léaud and the afore-mentioned Blain, as strong, influential leading men.
Known for his lightness, passion, charm and subtlety of performance, Bialy's versatility in films ranged from stark melodrama to comedy farce. While essaying the elegant boulevardier with great sophistication and sympathy, he could just as easily slip into a character's dark and deep cynicism and/or contempt. He starred opposite a fantasia of Europe's loveliest leading ladies including Rosanna Schiaffino, Danielle Darrieux, Nadja Tiller, Elsa Martinelli, Françoise Dorléac, Geneviève Page and Dawn Addams. He ended the 60s notably paired with the enigmatic Jeanne Moreau in Truffaut's stylish Hitchockian thriller The Bride Wore Black (1968) [The Bride Wore Black].
In the 1970s Brialy extended his talents to include writing and directing, which included his debut film, the award-winning Églantine (1972). Most of the works he helmed were delightfully nostalgic and family-oriented in fashion. He also entered a newer phase of supporting character roles that also went on to court awards. After beginning the decade in one of his best film leads with Claire's Knee (1970) [Claire's Knee] for director/friend Rohmer, he earned a supporting César nomination for The Judge and the Assassin (1976) and then won the trophy a decade later for his secondary work in Les innocents (1987). During this time he also organized or supported several film and theatre festivals. He was the director of both the Théâtre Hébertot (1977) and the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens (1986). A long time artistic director of the Festival of Anjou (1985-2001), he was also the creator and artistic director of the Festival of Ramatuelle from 1985. His work also included radio and extensive TV.
Off stage Brialy was a witty raconteur and bon vivant. He was also one of the select few French stars to be openly gay. It was most fitting that two of his more notable roles came late in life -- as the gay uncle in Chabrol's Inspector Lavardin (1986), and as the poet Max Jacob in Monsieur Max (2007), a homosexual Jew who converted to Catholicism before perishing in a Gestapo prison camp.
An occasional yet prolific writer on film, Brialy penned his autobiography Le ruisseau des singes (auto) in 2000 and his memoir, J'ai oublié de vous dire, in 2004. He owned a restaurant, L'Orangerie, in the Saint Louis Island of Paris and died on May 30, 2007, after a extended bout with cancer. Among his many honors: The Commander of the Legion of Honor and the National Order of Merit.- After studying theater in Paris, he joined various acting classes (Comedia dell'Arte, circus, improvisation) before entering the XVIIth promotion of "free class" of Cours Florent in 2006.
In 2003, he performed in different theater plays and he gets the lead role of the TV movie by Manuel Poirier, "The blood of strawberries" in 2006. His performance noticed allows him to participate in two feature films, the crazy "Hellphone" by James Huth and "Les Yeux Bandés" by Thomas Lilti in 2006.
In 2009, he plays in the movie: "Des Illusions" by Etienne Faure. Then he runs for a year in "Paris 16th" series in which he played a leading role.
Since it is part of the distribution of many films and plays, among others under the direction of Dominique Ladoge, Magaly Richard-Serrano, Christian Faure and Sebastien Grall with whom he collaborated in his last two films.
In 2011 and 2012 it is part of the play "Le Roi Nu". From September 2013 to January 2014 he played the role of "Molière" in the play "Le Corbeau et le Pouvoir" directed by Sophie Gubri and Sebastien Grall.
It also takes the lead role in the film "Au Souvenir d'une Lune" by William Caramelle which will be released soon. - Actor
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Son of horse breeders, the young man spent his childhood in the countryside near Paris. In his youth, Guillaume wanted to be a horse-rider, and briefly followed a professional career in the sport. A bad fall broke his dreams, but is at the origin of his acting career, and success. After briefly studying acting, he started his career. Eclectic and moving, Canet is also a successful director, he has directed movies like Tell No One (2006) and Little White Lies (2010)
In 2015, after 20 years of career, he received his first important nod as an actor for playing a serial killer in Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart (2014). He was nominated to Cesar Awards but eventually lost to Pierre Niney. Before that, he received a nod as Breakout Actor in 1998.- Actor
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Éric Caravaca was born on 21 November 1966 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, France. He is an actor and writer, known for Plot 35 (2017), C'est quoi la vie? (1999) and Sans plomb (2000).- Pierre-Yves Cardinal was born on 24 July 1978 in Québec, Canada. He is an actor, known for Tom at the Farm (2013), Mommy (2014) and Les Jeunes Loups (2014).
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Blue-eyed Vincent Cassel was born in Paris to a leading actor father, Jean-Pierre Cassel, and a journalist mother, Sabine Litique. Often labeled as a tough guy because of his roles, eclectic choices and talent have made of him a star of European cinema. First in La haine (1995), the young actor, actually coming from upper classes, succeeded to express the despair of a social class living in the suburbs of towns. This veracity in his play comes from the fact that he was in fact since years in connection with many hip-hop artists from the rising generation, (his own brother was leader of a legendary french rap group). Then the success of The Crimson Rivers (2000), where he plays a young French cop alongside Jean Reno, made of him "the man to count on." He never hid his taste for rap music, break dance, Capoeira, Brasil and his endless energy, but Vincent is also a family man, married to Monica Bellucci, his Italian co-star from The Apartment (1996) (aka The Apartment); and recently a father.- Actor
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François Cluzet was born on 21 September 1955 in Paris, France. He is an actor, known for The Intouchables (2011), Tell No One (2006) and French Kiss (1995). He has been married to Narjiss Slaoui-Falcoz since 2011. He was previously married to Chantal Perrin.- Writer
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He may have made only three films in his relatively brief life, but Cyril Collard certainly extended his "15 minutes of fame" to near cult status with the release of his last, the bold and unflinching Savage Nights (1992).
The notorious French filmmaker, actor, writer, musician and poet was born in 1957 of libertine Parisians who gave him a standard Catholic education in Versailles. Collard forsook a college science degree for a career in film and in the early 1980s finally turned his passion into a reality. He became assistant to director/writer/actor Maurice Pialat with both the film To Our Loves (1983) [To Our Loves] and several of his music videos and TV programs. Collard showed more than promise after directing two short films Grand huit (1982) and Alger la blanche (1986), the latter a frank, racially-tense study on passion and violence. His TV series Le Lyonnais (1989) (aka Taggers), in which he also composed the score, scrutinized the life of teenage graffiti artists. He was featured in the TV movie Mariage blanc (1985).
In 1986, the darkly handsome filmmaker learned he was HIV-positive. Condamne amour (1987), his first autobiographical novel, dealt with the initial awareness of his HIV status. This was turned into a short film Condamné amour (1991). Two years later came Cyril's second novel, the powerful Les nuits fauves [Savage Nights] (1989), which turned the "politically correct" look at AIDS inside out. The novel thoroughly examined his bisexuality and his defiant, unrealistic and irresponsible perception and handling of his disease.
The movie version Savage Nights (1992), which he directed, was released in 1992 with Collard himself playing the protagonist -- a hedonistic and self-important filmmaker with an insatiable sexual appetite who insists on living his prurient lifestyle to the absolute hilt despite his HIV illness, with tragic consequences. This bleak, uncompromising piece both enraptured and enraged the French audience and would become Collard's biggest film achievement. The critics applauded his braveness and controversial approach to such a taboo subject. With Savage Nights (1992), Collard became the first artist ever to be nominated for the three top categories of the French "Cesar" Awards -- Best Film, Best Director and Best First Film. The film won an amazing four awards -- Best Film, Best First Film, Best Editing and Best Female Newcomer (Romane Bohringer).
Not so ironically, Collard himself died of AIDS at 35 on March 5, 1993, only a few days before he was to reap his film awards. A posthumous book entitled "L'ange sauvage" and collection of Collard's poetry "L'animal" were published in 1994. He co-wrote the screenplay for the urban drama Rai (1995), which was released posthumously.- Mehdi Dehbi was born on 5 December 1985 in Liège, Belgium. He is an actor, known for A Most Wanted Man (2014), The Other Son (2012) and Messiah (2020).
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Pierre Deladonchamps was born on 1 June 1978 in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. He is an actor and writer, known for Stranger by the Lake (2013), Rascal (2020) and Sorry Angel (2018).- Actor
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Mathieu Delarive was born on 5 February 1975 in Paris, France. He is an actor and writer, known for Les bleus: premiers pas dans la police (2006), Un été de canicule (2003) and Family Matters (1989).- Actor
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Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon was born in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France, to Édith (Arnold) and Fabien Delon. His father was of French and Corsican Italian descent, and his mother was of French and German ancestry. His parents divorced early on, and Delon had a stormy childhood, being frequently expelled from school.
In 1953/1954 he served with the French Marines in Indochina. In the mid-'50s he worked at various odd jobs including waiter, salesman and porter in Les Halles market. He decided to try an acting career and in 1957 made his film debut in Yves Allégret's Quand la femme s'en mêle (1957). He declined an offer of a contract from producer David O. Selznick, and in 1960 he received international recognition for his role in Luchino Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers (1960). In 1961 he appeared on the stage in "'Tis a Pity She's a Whore", directed by Visconti, in Paris. In 1964 he formed his own production company, Delbeau Productions, and he produced a short film directed by Guy Gilles. In 1968 he found himself involved in murder, drug and sex scandal that indirectly implicated major politicians and show-business personalities, but he was eventually cleared of all charges. In the late 1960s he formed another company. Adel Film, and the next year he began producing features. In 1981 he directed his first film, To Kill a Cop (1981).
Delon was a sensation early in his career; he came to embody the young, energetic, often morally corrupted man. With his breathtaking good looks he was also destined to play tender lovers and romantic heroes, and he was a French embodiment of the type created in America by James Dean. His first outstanding success came with the role of the parasite Tom Ripley in 'Rene Clement''s sun-drenched thriller Purple Noon (1960). Delon presented a psychological portrait of a murderous young cynic who attempts to take on the identity of his victim. A totally different role was offered to him by Visconti in Rocco and His Brothers (1960). In this film Delon plays the devoted Rocco, who accepts the greatest sacrifices to save his shiftless brother Simon.
After several other films in Italy, Delon returned to the criminal genre with Jean Gabin in Any Number Can Win (1963). This work, a classic example of the genre, was distinguished not only by a soundly worked-out screenplay, but also by the careful production and the excellent performances of both Delon and Gabin. It was only in the late 1960s that the sleek and lethal Delon came to epitomize the calm, psychopathic hoodlum, staring into the camera like a cat assessing a mouse. His tough, ruthless side was first used to real effect by Jean-Pierre Melville in The Samurai (1967). In 1970 he had a huge success in the bloodstained Borsalino (1970)--which he also produced--playing a small-time gangster in the 1930s who, with Jean-Paul Belmondo, becomes king of the Marseilles underworld. Delon later won critical acclaim for his roles, against type, in Joseph Losey's Mr. Klein (1976) in which he played (brilliantly) the icily sinister title role, and the art-movie Swann in Love (1984). He has an older son Anthony Delon (who has also acted in a number of movies) from his first marriage to Nathalie Delon, and has a young son and daughter, Alain-Fabien and Anouchka with Rosalie.- Actor
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Anthony Delon was born on 30 September 1964 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Un été de canicule (2003), The Condor Mystery (2005) and Pêcheur d'Islande (1996).- Actor
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Laurent Delpit was born on 22 May 1973 in Bergerac, France. He is an actor, known for A Second Chance (2012), Cousin Bette (1998) and Making of Le deuxième commencement (2012).- Actor
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Guillaume Depardieu was born on 7 April 1971 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for The Duchess of Langeais (2007), Tous les matins du monde (1991) and Pola X (1999). He was married to Elise Ventre. He died on 13 October 2008 in Garches, Hauts-de-Seine, France.- Fabrice Deville is known for S.O.S. 18 (2002), Punisher 2 the Teaser (2007) and Nouvelle Maud (2010).
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In 1995 he began his first one man show, the same year he met Bruno Salomone, Eric Collado, Emmanuel Joucla and Eric Massot with whom he created the "Nous Ç Nous". In 1999, he became "Loulou" in Un gars, une fille (1999). This part permitted him to show his talent to a larger public. Since the end of "Un gars, une fille" in 2003, he has appeared in many films.- Actor
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Appealing actor Romain Duris is the exact example of those who arrived in the movie industry by chance, and to stardom without really desiring it. Discovered by a casting director while he was waiting in front of a high school in Paris, he was offered a role. Between popular successes such as Good Old Daze (1994), Dobermann (1997), Tom Thumb (2001), The Spanish Apartment (2002) or Arsène Lupin (2004), and independent films like Seventeen Times Cécile Cassard (2002), Exils (2004), The Crazy Stranger (1997), Being Light (2001), Déjà mort (1998) or When the Cat's Away (1996), Duris proves to be versatile enough to be credible as a bandit, as a homosexual, or simply as a French student in the streets of Barcelona. The consecration has been The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005); now Duris is seen as an excellent and touching actor by the critics and by the audience.- Touted as a rebel, Duvauchelle seem to be one of the most promising young actors in France and Europe. While studying to become a pharmacy employee, he was discovered in a boxing club in Paris. After some auditions, he starred in Le petit voleur (1999), and many other films such as Snowboarder (2003), an action movie, and Trouble Every Day (2001) with 'Beatrice Dalle'. Thanks to his handsome appearance, he became a male-model, and starred in a TV ad for Levi's jeans, and became Hugo Boss perfume's supermodel. Nicolas was brought to stardom by Les corps impatients (2003) with Laura Smet. He confirmed his status of rebel actor playing in Lightweight (2004), a movie where he played a boxer.
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Jérémie Elkaïm was born on 29 August 1978 in Châtenay-Malabry, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He is an actor and writer, known for Declaration of War (2011), Come Undone (2000) and Hand in Hand (2012).- Actor
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Stéphane Freiss was born on 27 November 1960 in Paris, France. He is an actor and writer, known for Munich (2005), Welcome to the Sticks (2008) and Hereafter (2010). He is married to Ursula. They have three children.- Jacques Gamblin was born on 16 November 1957 in Granville, Manche, France. He is an actor and writer, known for The Children of the Marshland (1999), Safe Conduct (2002) and The Names of Love (2010).
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Louis Garrel was born on 14 June 1983 in Paris, France. He is an actor and director, known for The Dreamers (2003), Little Women (2019) and The Innocent (2022). He has been married to Laetitia Casta since 10 June 2017. They have one child. He was previously married to Golshifteh Farahani.- Jean Gaven was born on 16 January 1922 in Saint-Rome de Cernon, Aveyron, France. He was an actor, known for ...And Hope to Die (1972), Our Men in Bagdad (1966) and Riff Raff Girls (1959). He was married to Dominique Wilms. He died on 5 May 2014 in Paris, France.
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Sensitive, boyishly handsome, dark-haired Gallic lead and character actor Daniel Gelin did not have an easy personal life but was warmly embraced as a talented star who appeared to fine advantage for such legendary directors as Max Ophüls, Louis Malle, Jean Cocteau, Alfred Hitchcock, and Claude Lelouch.
Born Daniel Yves Alfred Gelin in Angers, France, on May 19, 1921, he left home at age 16 to take dramatic arts classes and trained at the Cours Simon in Paris, later studying at the Paris Conservatoire with Louis Jouvet his mentor. He made his first film appearance in Miquette (1940) and for several years played extra or bit parts in French films.
His rebellious bohemian nature served him well in films, if not his private life. Adept at both light comedy and heavy drama, Gelin moved into leading roles in 1949 and went on to mesmerize audiences in such films as Rendezvous in July (1949), Edward and Caroline (1951), Dirty Hands (1951), Le Plaisir (1952), Rue de l'Estrapade (1953), Young Love (1951), Napoleon (1955) (title role), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Testament of Orpheus (1960) and many more.
Numerous starring/co-starring roles in primarily French films followed, a healthy mixture of farce and drama. These included Shadows of Adultery (1961), El niño y el muro (1965), Line of Demarcation (1966), À belles dents (1966), Witness Out of Hell (1966), La trêve (1968), Hallucinations sadiques (1969), La servante (1970), Far from Dallas (1972), Diálogos de exiliados (1975), L'honorable société (1978) and The Children (1985). His final films would be in Les ténors (1994), Des feux mal éteints (1994), Fugueuses (1995) and Les Bidochon (1996). Gelin's last few years were spent on TV with projects including roles on Chercheurs d'or (1996), Les marmottes (1998) and Madame le proviseur (1994).
Despite his enviable resume (150 films), It's generally considered that Gelin professional career was compromised by a turbulent, unhappy life off screen. Gelin lived an emotionally up-and-down rollercoaster life pocked with stormy relationships, severe depression and suicide attempts. A lengthy battle with alcohol and drugs quickly hardened his initially boyish features. One child son, Pascal, died tragically in 1957 at the age of 14 months when he accidentally swallowed pills. Another son, actor/producer Xavier Gélin, lost his battle with cancer in 1999.
Gelin was married three times, including his first to actress Danièle Delorme. He had six children in all. One daughter, actress Maria Schneider was the product of his liaison with French model Christine Marie Schneider, whom he never married. Another daughter was actress Fiona Gélin. Gélin was a writer as well, and penned a number of poetry poems, memoirs and even a manual on gardening. He died in Paris on November 29, 2002, at the age 81 of kidney failure.- Actor
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Marc-André Grondin was born on 11 March 1984 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He is an actor and producer, known for C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005), Goon (2011) and The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (2008).- Actor
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Thomas Jouannet was born on 30 September 1970 in Geneva, Switzerland. He is an actor and producer, known for Mes chers disparus! (2014), L'été rouge (2002) and Yamakasi (2001). He has been married to Armelle Deutsch since 26 June 2010. They have two children.- Actor
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Louis Jourdan was born Louis Robert Gendre in Marseille, France to Yvonne (née Jourdan) and hotel owner Henry Gendre. He was educated in France, Britain, and Turkey. He trained as an actor with René Simon at the École Dramatique. He debuted on screen in 1939, going on to play cultivated, polished, dashing lead roles in a number of French romantic comedies and dramas.
After his father, the manager of the Cannes Grand Hôtel, was arrested by the Gestapo during World War II, Louis and his two brothers (Pierre Jourdan and Robert Gendre, both of whom became film directors) joined the French underground; his film career came to a halt when he refused to act in Nazi propaganda films.
In 1948, David O. Selznick invited him to Hollywood to appear in The Paradine Case (1947); he remained in the USA and went on to star in a number of Hollywood films. After 1953, he appeared in international productions and, in 1958, appeared in Gigi (1958), his best-known film by American audiences. He also made numerous appearances on American television.
Jourdan died at his home in Beverly Hills, California in 2015, at age 93.- Actor
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Mathieu Kassovitz was born on 3 August 1967 in Paris, France. He is an actor and director, known for Amélie (2001), La haine (1995) and The Fifth Element (1997).- Actor
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Though born in Great Neck, Long Island, Christopher Lambert's family left the US when he was only two years old. His father was a United Nations diplomat assigned to Switzerland and, as a result, Chris was educated at private boarding schools in Geneva. Inspired through his having appeared in a play at age 12, he went to the Paris Conservatoire where he remained for two years. After a few small parts in French films, beginning in 1980, he successfully competed for the title role in Warner Bros. Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984). His co-stars included Ian Holm, James Fox and Ralph Richardson (in his final film performance). The movie was popular with Tarzan buffs for remaining faithful (in the first half at least) to Edgar Rice Burroughs' original story. Two years later Lambert brought to the screen Gregory Widens' legendary Connor MacLeod, the immortal Highlander (1986), born in the Highlands of Scotland in 1518 and carrying over into the futuristic Highlander II: The Quickening (1991) and Highlander: The Final Dimension (1994). In recent years he has become a producer while continuing to act in mostly action/adventure films.- Thomas Laroppe is a Paris-based actor and performance artist. Born in 1977, he studied acting and pantomime at the École de Samovar with Philippe Dormoy, Hélène Ninerola, Patrick Haggiag and Catherine Dubois.
His first film was Brodeuses (2004), a multi-award winning drama by Éléonore Faucher. He then worked on several films with director Antony Hickling, including One Deep Breath (2014), Frig (2018) and, most recently, Down in Paris (2021).
On stage, he often pairs with Biño Sauitzvy in daring, thought-provoking performances. - Actor
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Gilles Lellouche was born on 5 July 1972 in Savigny-sur-Orge, Essonne, France. He is an actor and director, known for Tell No One (2006), Sink or Swim (2018) and Beating Hearts (2024).- Actor
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Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet was born on 4 December 1987 in Paris, France. He is an actor and director, known for Fool Moon (2016), Love Songs (2007) and The Princess of Montpensier (2010).- Actor
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Born in Paris in 1965, Laurent Lucas enrolled as a student of Charles Dullin and quickly became one of the most promising students at the Strasbourg National Theatre.
He first appeared on the screen in 1996 in I Hate Love (1997) in which he delivered a riveting performance of a man who is HIV positive. Lucas next played in Pola X (1999) by Leos Carax, and then with Karin Viard, shot two outstanding films: The New Eve (1999) and Haut les coeurs! (1999), his performance for which won him a Cesar nomination for Best Aspiring Actor.
In 2000, Lucas rose to notoriety with his role as a young father in _Harry un ami qui veut du bien (2000)_, and in 2003, appeared in three films presented at Cannes International Film Festival: Tiresia (2003), Qui a tué Bambi? (2003) and Va, petite! (2002).
Most recently, Lucas' performances in Lemming (2005) by Dominik Moll and Sur la trace d'Igor Rizzi (2006) by Noël Mitrani have definitively placed him at the head of his generation of French actors.- Son of a nurse and a bank employee, Benoît Magimel was born in Paris and grew up there. At age 12, he played Momo in Life Is a Long Quiet River (1988) by Étienne Chatiliez. He stopped his studies at age 16 to become an actor.
But he had a dual personality: on one hand the man of low budget films like A Single Girl (1995), A Minute of Silence (1998), Le roi danse (2000), Déjà mort (1998), Thieves (1996), To Matthieu (2000) alongside Nathalie Baye, The Flower of Evil (2003), Errance (2003), Children of the Century (1999) with Juliette Binoche, The Bridesmaid (2004) with Laura Smet, The Piano Teacher (2001) alongside Isabelle Huppert, and on the other hand also wide audience releases like The Nest (2002), Crimson Rivers 2: Angels of the Apocalypse (2004), Trouble (2005), Strange Gardens (2003), and Sky Fighters (2005).
Charming, ambiguous, talented Benoit Magimel will probably illuminate the next decade, and more. - Actor
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Jean Marais was a popular French cinema actor and director who played over 100 roles in film and on television, and was also known for his many talents as a writer, painter and sculptor.
He was born Jean Alfred Villain-Marais on December 11, 1913, in Cherbourg, France. His father practiced veterinarian medicine, then fought in the World War I, and eventually left the family. Young Jean Marais was taken to Paris at the age of 4. There he was raised by his mother and grandmother. He attended the Lycée Condorcet, a prestigious State school where also studied his future film partners such as Louis de Funes and Jean Cocteau, and the faculty had such figures as Jean-Paul Sartre. At the age of 13, Marais dropped out of Lycee Condorcet, he tried several other schools, albeit he did not complete his college education, instead he was placed in a Catholic boarding school. At 16, he left school and became involved in amateur acting. After being rejected from drama schools, he took a job as a photographer's assistant and also worked as a caddy at a golf club.
In 1933 Marais made his film debut in Les Amoureux (1933) (aka.. Les Amoureux), by director Marcel L'Herbier. In 1937, at a stage rehearsal of 'King Aedipus', Marais met Jean Cocteau, and they remained close friends until Cocteau's death. Cocteau had a major influence on life and career of Jean Marais who appeared in almost every one of Cocteau's films. Together they made such classics as Beauty and the Beast (1946), Orpheus (1950) and Testament of Orpheus (1960), to name a few.
During the World War II, Marais was an actor in the occupied Paris. After liberation of Paris in 1944, he became a truck driver for the French Army, he was decorated for his courage. During the war Marais was married to his film partner, actress Mila Parély, and their marriage was blessed by Cocteau, who wanted Marais to be happy. Marais and Mila Parély divorced after two years of marriage, and shortly after their divorce, they worked together again in 'Beauty and the Beast' (1946), under directorship of Jean Cocteau. During the 1950s, Marais shot to international fame, after starring in films directed by Cocteau, Visconti, and others.
During the 1960s and 1970s, Marais went on to star in several popular comedies, such as the Fantomas (1964) trilogy by director André Hunebelle. He co-starred with many major French actors of the time, including such stars as Louis de Funès and Mylène Demongeot in the Fantomas trilogy, and also Jean Gabin, Guy Delorme, Bourvil, Danielle Darrieux, Michèle Morgan, and Yves Montand.
Jean Marais was also a remarkable stage actor known for his association with Théâtre de Paris, Théâtre de l'Atelie, and the Comédie Francaise, among others. Marais received numerous international awards and recognitions for his contribution to film art, including the French Legion of Honour (1996). He spent his later years living in his house in Vallaruis, in the South of France where he was involved in painting, sculpture and pottery, and was visited by Pablo Picasso and other cultural figures. Jean Marais died of a heart failure on November 8, 1998, in Cannes, France, and was laid to rest in the small Cemetiere de Vallauris, France.- Actor
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Marmaï Pio, born 13 July 1984 in Strasbourg, is a French actor. Coming from an artistic background (his mother is a former costume designer at the Strasbourg Opera and his father is an emigrated Italian designer), Pio Marmaï followed the course of the Scuola Commedia dell'Arte Antonio Fava, The Theatre School Enfants Terribles, the conservatory of Créteil and the National Drama Centre of Saint-Etienne .- Olivier Martinez comes from a working-class family, raised in the Paris suburbs. He left school at an early age, holding various pick-up jobs such as salesman for jeans. Friends urged him to try acting, and at age 23 he enrolled in the International Conservatory of Paris. After several television shows, he reached the international market with The Horseman on the Roof (1995), billed in his American promotional tour for that movie as "the French Brad Pitt".
- Though remembered as an Italian pulp cinema icon of the 1970s, Luc Merenda was actually born and raised in Nogent-le-Roi, Paris, France, with Italian ancestry through his paternal grandfather. A thrill-seeking, multi-disciplinary athlete in his youth (his hobbies include savate, motorcycle racing, and skydiving), Merenda entered into the film industry at the age of 27 after being spotted at an audition while working as a model. He was one of the top leading men of the poliziotteschi genre, gritty urban crime dramas featuring dirty cops and even dirtier criminals. His career slowed down in the 1980s with the decline of poliziottescho, appearing mostly on television, before retiring to his native France to own and operate an antiques and modern art gallery.
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Antoine Michel is an actor originally from Paris, France. He has been appearing in commercials and magazine ads since he was 5. As a teenager, he toured all of France in various theatre companies. His breakthrough role came in 2002 in the television film, You'll Get Over It. Antoine, now works regularly in films. He is best-known for playing villain roles like the mean boxer in "You'll get over it", the french jihadist in "L'Equilibre De la Terreur" or the psychopath in "Meurtres à Rocamadour".- Director
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Gaël Morel was born on 25 September 1972 in Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, France. He is a director and writer, known for Wild Reeds (1994), Three Dancing Slaves (2004) and Under Another Sky (2002).- Actor
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Pierre Niney was born in Boulogne-Billancourt (France), on March 13, 1989. He began his acting career at the age of eleven and joined the Comédie-Française troupe on October 16, 2010, when he was only twenty-one, which made him the youngest resident of the troupe. After several appearances in TV films and short films, he obtained several roles in cinema: 'LOL' (2008), 'L'armée du crime' (2009), 'Les Émotifs anonymes' (2010). He was chosen to play Yves Saint-Laurent in the eponymous film directed by Jalil Lespert. For this role Niney won the prize Patrick Dewaere, then the César for best actor (he actually became the youngest actor to win this prize). He left the Comédie Française on January 15, 2015. In the same year, he starred in the thriller 'Un homme idéal'. Also in 2016, Niney took the lead role in 'Frantz', directed by François Ozon, and played Philippe Cousteau in 'L'Odyssée', a biopic based o the life of French Commander Jacques Cousteau.- Actor
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Christophe Paou was born on 25 February 1969 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, France. He is an actor and assistant director, known for Stranger by the Lake (2013), The Chef (2012) and Happy End (2009).- Actor
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Handsome, soulful-eyed, exotic-looking leading man Vincent Perez is known for his grand and glossy French pictures, exuding a sexy stare and irresistible charm that has swept Gallic women off their feet for over two decades.
Perez was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, to a German mother and a Spanish businessman father. From the classical theatre stage (Paris Conservatoire, L'Ecole des Amandiers) and in works ranging from Shakespeare to Chekhov, Perez became an instant romantic idol after pairing opposite slightly older femme stars Jacqueline Bisset in La maison de jade (1988) and Catherine Deneuve in the Oscar-winning film Indochine (1992). His true cinematic breakthrough, however, came as the callow, vacuous lover "Christian" opposite Gérard Depardieu's Cyrano de Bergerac (1990). The film is considered these days the definitive version of the Edmond Rostand classic.
With this phenomenal European success, the lithe, moody heartthrob branched out internationally, finally making his American film debut in The Crow: City of Angels (1996), taking over the vengeful title role from the late Brandon Lee who was accidentally killed in the original. The sequel proved lackluster and the U.S. has since been surprisingly and sadly unresponsive. This may be in part due to his subsequent American movies, which have included the passionless I Dreamed of Africa (2000), Bride of the Wind (2001) and Queen of the Damned (2002) with the late musical star Aaliyah.
Continuing into the millennium, Perez has remained an overseas art-house favorite and has graced scores of international films including the title role in the romantic French adventure Fanfan (2003); the Italian drama La felicità non costa niente (2003); the French/Swiss comedy co-production Welcome to Switzerland (2004); the Swedish action drama Arn: The Knight Templar (2007); the French dramas Tomorrow at Dawn (2009), Monsieur Papa (2011), A Butterfly Kiss (2011) and Kto porwal bociany? (2011); the Irish drama The Price of Desire (2015); the Australian romantic dramedy Ladies in Black (2018); and the U.S. action adventure The Aeronauts (2019).
Perez has been married to model/actress Karine Silla since 1998 and they have three children, including one set of twins). Sylla also has a child by Perez's ex-co-star Gérard Depardieu.- Actor
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Raphaël Personnaz was born on 23 July 1981 in Paris, France. He is an actor and director, known for Anna Karenina (2012), The Princess of Montpensier (2010) and Marius (2013).- Actor
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In 1940 Gerard left school and his parents wanted him be a lawyer. But soon his mother noticed that he was only interested in acting, although his father was against the idea. After timely intervention from Marc Allégret, who decided he showed some promise, Gerard's debut was in Claude Dauphin's play "One plain girl". After this, Gerard decided to get into the conservatory. He was wonder even in music. He himself used to find necessary sounds - exact, unexpected, and unforeseen. All this helped him to portray amazing characters. Millions of people were inspired by him.
One day Georges Lacombe offered Philipe a part in his movie Le pays sans étoiles (1946). Critical reaction was very favourable and he became a star, taking on prominent roles in films such as L'idiot (1946), Devil in the Flesh (1947), The Charterhouse of Parma (1948), Such a Pretty Little Beach (1949), Juliette ou La clef des songes (1951), Fanfan la Tulipe (1952), Beauties of the Night (1952), The Red and the Black (1954), La meilleure part (1955) and Le joueur (1958).
In 1951 Gerard Philipe married Annie. He dreamed of his own home and family, children. Their first child, Ann-Marie, was born in 1954, and in 1956 came Olivie. In 1959 Gerard returned to France. He seemed to be very tired. Doctors then gave him the bad news that he had a liver cancer. "He'll live 15 days or 6 months", - they decided. After that Gerard waited for death very calmly. On November 25, 1959 he died.- Actor
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Melvil Poupaud was born on 26 January 1973 in Paris, France. He is an actor and director, known for Laurence Anyways (2012), Speed Racer (2008) and Time to Leave (2005).- Actor
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Flashback to Paris, 5 May, 1958. Aurélien Recoing, son of the puppeteer Alain Recoing, is born. He begins training to be an actor in 1974 at the Cours Florent, as well as studying at the Quartier d'Ivry. In 1977, the actor-in-training, who speaks fluent English as well as a little Russian, joins the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique in Paris, where he studies under Jean-Pierre Miquel and Antoine Vitez. He appears in more than 30 plays, as well as directing stage performances of works by Thomas Bernhard, Fernando Pessoa and Paul Claudel. In 1989, he receives the Prix Gérard Philipe. In 1980, Aurélien Recoing takes his first steps into the world of cinema, in "Exploits of a Young Don Juan". Finding that art-house cinema appeals to him, he works with Garrel on "Emergency Kisses", and with Laurence Ferreira Barbosa on "Modern Life". The actor rises to fame in 2001 thanks to Laurent Cantet's "Time Out" (Time Out (2001)), in which he plays a man who invents a false life to avoid having to tell his friends and family that he has been fired from his job. As he becomes more and more in demand, he alternates between blockbusters such as "Ruby & Quentin" and "That Woman" and art-house films like "L'Ennemi naturel" and "Orlando Vargas". Lending his talents to a number of unusual projects, in 2006 he portrays a gamblers in 13 Tzameti (2005), Géla Babluani's black-and-white thriller, and also appears in "Forgive Me", Maïwenn's home-movie style drama. In the same year, the physically imposing actor finds himself transported back to 1914 France in Fragments of Antonin, and then to 1959 Kabylia in Florent Emilio Siri's Intimate Enemies. In 2008, he stars in Franck Llopis's Paris Nord Sud and in La Saison des Orphelins. The following year, he is cast in Gilles Béhat's crime thriller Diamant 13, and in Denis Dercourt's Tomorrow at Dawn. He has recently made appearances in The Horde, directed by Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher, Xavier de Choudens's Joseph and the Girl and Léon Desclozeaux's Cargo, the Lost Men in 2010. You might have seen him in Frédéric Schoendoerffer's Switch, as well as in Olias Barco's Kill Me Please, which won the Grand Prix Marc Aurel d'Or at Rome's International Film Festival. He also appeared in Abdellatif Kechiche's "Blue is the Warmest Colour", which took the Palme d'Or at Cannes.- Actor
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Jérémie Renier was born on 6 January 1981 in Brussels, Belgium. He is an actor and writer, known for In Bruges (2008), Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) and My Way (2012).- Actor
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Maurice Ronet was born on 13 April 1927 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. He was an actor and writer, known for Elevator to the Gallows (1958), The Fire Within (1963) and Purple Noon (1960). He was married to Maria Pacôme. He died on 14 March 1983 in Paris, France.- Actor
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François Sagat was born on 5 June 1979 in Cognac, Charente, France. He is an actor and director, known for Saw VI (2009).- Actor
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In 1997, "Sleepless Cities", a multi-lingual one-man show with songs by Kurt Weill, Burt Bacharach, Jacques Prévert, and Tori Amos, started the career of the very ambitious André Schneider who would later enter the stage as a stand-up comedian, appear as an extra in movies by Peter Greenaway and Michael Caton-Jones, become a musician and writer and finally produce and direct his own feature films.
At the age of twenty, he gave his stage debut in his hometown of Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, co-starring with Michael Demuth in the enormously successful musical "Zoff". One year later, he relocated to Berlin, and in 2001, he moved to London.
Both his first book, "Life is a Sexually Transmitted Disease", and the pop album "Lover's Space" came out in 2004, and after the release of Deed Poll (2004), which went on to become a cult favorite, André worked extensively in Great Britain, Ireland, France, Spain, Austria, and Belgium. In Germany, he worked as a writer-actor on Ingo J. Biermann's ill-fated drama Glastage (2007) and did Der Mann im Keller (2008) with Nikolaus Firmkranz. The latter also became his directorial debut.
In 2006, André wrote, produced and starred in Half Past Ten (2008), based on a Marguerite Duras novel, directed by Sascha Bachmann and co-starring Kerstin Linnartz. Subsequently, he was cast in a string of (mostly unreleased) Spanish student films before he eventually decided to take a hiatus from the movies for almost two years, focusing on his theatre work instead.
Alex und der Löwe (2010), a gay romantic comedy with Marcel Schlutt, Sascia Haj, and Udo Lutz, was André's first film as a writer-producer-actor in almost three years. He played the title role of Alex, a 30-year-old Berlin-based man who clumsily stumbles from one relationship to the next. The movie fared surprisingly well, and so André revived his part in what was little more than a cameo in its highly successful, multi-award winning successor, Men to Kiss (2012). Still, working in droll German comedies left him dissatisfied and unhappy. "It was a dead-end career for me, I was desperate for new challenges," he later recalled.
In order to revive his movie career with fresh impulses, he began shooting his first French feature, A Second Chance (2012) in late 2011. A courageous move that proved to be a smart one: A Second Chance (2012) became an immediate critical success in France, Spain, and Greece, allowing its writer-director-star to continue working in Paris. In One Deep Breath (2014), a gloomy thriller co-starring Manuel Blanc and Stéphanie Michelini under the direction of Antony Hickling (an acclaimed genius of the art house genre), André created the part of Thomas Laroppe's concerned half-brother Adrian, and in Le cadeau (2013), a poetic short based on poetry by Pablo Neruda, he played Anton. Between 2015 and 2018, he established himself as a character actor in France with parts in movies like Boulevard Voltaire (2017), Frig (2018), The Ghosts (2018) (co-starring Judith Magre and Sophie Tellier), and On My Mother's Path (2016).
In addition to his movie work, his biography of B-movie actress Marisa Mell received rave reviews and became quite a success in 2013. In 2018, he dissolved his company, Vivàsvan Pictures, and started studying pedagogy and philosophy. Still an avid writer, André lives in Strasbourg, France.- Actor
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Niels Schneider was born on 18 January 1987 in Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He is an actor and director, known for Heartbeats (2010), Le rite (2022) and I Killed My Mother (2009).- Actor
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Clément Sibony was born on 30 November 1976 in Paris, France. He is an actor and director, known for The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014), French Kiss (1995) and The Tourist (2010).- Actor
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Cyrille Thouvenin was born on 15 May 1976 in Mont-Saint-Martin, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. He is an actor and writer, known for The Happening (2008), Juste une question d'amour (2000) and La confusion des genres (2000).- Bruno Todeschini was born on 19 September 1962 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He is an actor, known for His Brother (2003), Who Knows? (2001) and That Day (2007). He is married to Sophie Broustal. They have one child.
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Aurelien began to work in the cinema at the age of 12 in Cache Cash, of Claude Pinoteau. Aurelien stopped his studies at the age of 16 to work full time in the theater and the cinema. He has Norwegian origins by his father and has an older brother, named Benjamin. He writes and realizes short films.- Actor
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Lambert Wilson was born in Paris and studied acting at the Drama Centre in London.
A fluent English speaker, he made his feature film debut at the age of twenty-two in Fred Zinnemann's Five Days One Summer (1981) starring opposite Sean Connery. He went on to work with many of France's most prestigious auteur directors, playing leads in Andrzej Zulawski's La Femme Publique, (1983), Véra Belmont's Rouge Baiser (1984), André Téchiné's Rendez-vous, (Official Selection at Cannes and winner of the Best Director Award, 1984), Luigi Comencini's La Storia (1985), Claude Chabrol's Le Sang des Autres (1987), Philippe de Broca's Chouans (1987) and Peter Greenaway's The Belly of an Architect (1987). He starred in his actor/director father Georges Wilson's feature film debut, La Vouivre (1988), and won the Jean Gabin Award for his performance in Denis Amar's Winter '54, (1989). Further film work includes James Ivory's Jefferson in Paris (1994) opposite Nick Nolte and Gwyneth Paltrow and John Duigan's The Leading Man, with Thandie Newton and John Bon Jovi (1996). He has made four films with Alain Resnais: Same Old Song (1997), Not on the Lips, 2003, Private Fears in Public Places, (2006) and You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet (2012) and has worked with Jacques Doillon in Trop (peu) d'amour, (1997), Deborah Warner in The Last September, with Maggie Smith, Fiona Shaw, Jane Birkin and Michael Gambon (1998) and starred in Raùl Ruiz's Combat d'amour en songe (2000).
His more recent, English language work includes the Wachowski brothers' Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions (2001), Pitof's Catwoman (2004) with Halle Berry and Sharon Stone, Breck Eisner's Sahara, (2005), Michael Radford's Flawless (2006) with Demi Moore and Michael Caine, and Mathieu Kassovitz's Babylon A.D. (2007) with Vin Diesel and Charlotte Rampling. He has just starred in three international productions, Lulu Wang's Posthumous with Jack Huston and Britt Marling, Victor Levin's 5 to 7 with Anton Yelchin, Glenn Close and Frank Langella, and Suite Française, opposite Michelle Williams, Kristin Scott Thomas and Matthias Shoenaerts, all due for release in 2014.
Highlights from his latter French filmography include: Valérie Lemercier's Palais Royal! (2004), Xavier Beauvois' Of Gods and Men, Cannes Official Selection and Winner, Grand Prize of the Jury (2009), Bertrand Tavernier The Princess of Montpensier (2009), Alain Chabat's Le Marsupilami (2011), Philippe Le Guay's Cycling with Moliere (2012).
In the summer of 2013, he played the lead in Eric Lavaine's Barbecue, opposite Florence Foresti, Franck Dubosc, Guillaume de Tonquédec, Lionel Abelanski, Jérôme Commandeur, Valérie Crouzet, Sophie Duez et Lysiane Meis (2014).
Lambert Wilson is a Chevalier and Officier des Arts et des Lettres and Chevalier and Officier de l'Ordre National du Merite.- Actor
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Jonathan Zaccaï was born on 22 July 1970 in Brussels, Belgium. He is an actor and director, known for Robin Hood (2010), Private Lessons (2008) and The Bureau (2015).- Johnny Amaro is known for District 13: Ultimatum (2009), Je m'abandonne à toi (2023) and L'insigne de confiance..
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Alexandre Astier was born on 16 June 1974 in Lyon, France. He is a writer and actor, known for Kaamelott (2004), Dies irae (2003) and Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion (2018).- Jean-Claude Bercq was born on 7 April 1929 in Valleroy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. He was an actor, known for Inferno (1964), Le Mans (1971) and The Train (1964). He died on 12 December 2008 in Saint-Louis, Haut-Rhin, France.
- Éric Berger was born on 13 June 1969 in Amiens, France. He is an actor, known for Tanguy (2001), Just Trust (2004) and You and Me (2006).
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Gérard Blain was born on 23 October 1930 in Paris, France. He was an actor and writer, known for Hatari! (1962), Les amis (1971) and Un enfant dans la foule (1976). He was married to Marie-Hélène Bauret, Monique Blain, Bernadette Lafont and Estella Blain. He died on 17 December 2000 in Paris, France.- Pierre Blaise was born on 29 February 1952 in Moissac, Tarn-et-Garonne, France. He was an actor, known for Lacombe, Lucien (1974), Le grand délire (1975) and Les noces de porcelaine (1975). He died on 31 August 1975 in Moissac, Tarn-et-Garonne, France.
- Thibault Boucaux is known for Like a Brother (2005).
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Philippe Calvario is known for Intimacy (2001), Drama Queen (2010) and Gentry de Paris Revue (2009).- Actor
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Nicolas Cazalé was born on 24 April 1977 in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France. He is an actor and director, known for The Great Journey (2004), Three Dancing Slaves (2004) and The Grocer's Son (2007).- Actor
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Pierre Clémenti was born on 28 September 1942 in Paris, France. He was an actor and director, known for Belle de Jour (1967), The Leopard (1963) and À l'ombre de la canaille bleue (1986). He was married to Margareth Clémenti. He died on 27 December 1999 in Paris, France.- Actor
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Pierre Cosso was born on 24 September 1961 in Algiers, Alger, France [now Algeria]. He is an actor and composer, known for An American Werewolf in Paris (1997), La romana (1988) and Charlemagne (1993).- Benoît Delière is known for Like a Brother (2005) and Nus et célèbres (2005).
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Lionnel Desruelles is known for My King (2015), Une folle envie (2011) and Joséphine, ange gardien (1997).- Music Artist
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Originally from the Cévennes, Julien Doré attended the Beaux-Arts in Nîmes for five years. Then member of the groups Dig Up Elvis and The Jean D'Ormesson's, the young man stood out solo in the Nouvelle Star tele-hook, which he won in 2007.
He released his first album called "Ersatz" and won the 2009 Victoires de la musique in the Revelation Album and Video Clip of the Year category (for Limits). A second album, "Bichon", was released in 2011, followed by "LOVE" in 2013. Very popular, the album has since won 2 other Victoires de la Musique and Doré released 2 other albums including the last "Aimée" released in September 2020 and already sold more than 250,000 copies.
Along with his career, the singer also likes to play comedy (Pop Redemption, Dix pour Cent ...)- Dimitri Durdaine is known for Our Paradise (2011) and Plastic Laws (2019).
- In 1962, as a member of the celebrated Theatre Moufftard in Paris, young Phillipe Forquet was discovered by American director Robert Parrish, who gave him an important role in a movie based on Irwin Shaw's novel, In the French Style (1963).
Learning English as he went along, he played the handsome and somewhat naive younger boyfriend of Jean Seberg, who had won popular acclaim in France when she starred in the Otto Preminger film Saint Joan (1957). She was very popular in France.
Attractive French movie stars were very prevalent in Hollywood throughout the 50s and 60s. Maurice Chevalier Yves Montand and Brigitte Bardot were household names and a new generation of new European 'hotties' were coming up such as 'Jean-Paul Belmondo', Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve and Louis Jourdan. Highly regarded for his extraordinary good looks, Forquet was spotted by producers at Twentieth Century Fox, and was offered a contract. In 1962 he was flown to Hollywood to be groomed into the new French Heartthrob.
His first role was as a French artist and love interest in Take Her, She's Mine (1963), also starring James Stewart and Sandra Dee, a very popular teen star at the time who was married to Bobby Darin. Rather shy and introspective, intelligent and well-read, the young Philippe began life as a rising movie star. His dark good looks, sharp wit and Gallic charm caused quite a flurry among the ladies. He received thousands of fan letters a week and was featured in fan magazines. He was being hailed as a new Montgomery Clift.
While working on the film, he fell in love with a young starlet, Sharon Tate, who was also under contract to a studio and they became formally engaged. They eventually broke the engagement as the pressures of her rising career began to interfere with their personal lives. As a result, he broke his contract and decided to go back to Europe.
He was typecast several times as a French aristocrat. In the cult film Camille 2000, he played the darkly handsome and dangerous Count De Varville. He played against Rod Steiger in the Russian co-production, Waterloo (1970) as the Duc De La Bedoyere, the Generals aide de camp.
He did return to Hollywood in 1970 to star in the ABC-TV series, The Young Rebels (1970) produced by Aaron Spelling. As yet another French nobleman, he played the American Revolutionary War hero, General Marquis De Lafayette. He received thousands of fan letters and was featured in many fan magazines as the new French heartthrob again. Girls found his dimples and French accent "devastating." They sent for posters of him and entered contests to win a date. The series, which was running against Lassie and Disney, rated third in the 7:00 time slot on network TV. It was canceled after one season.
He and Linda Morand took time off and got married. They traveled throughout Europe. Forquet paid less attention to his acting career and became involved with his family businesses. By the mid-seventies, he was retired from acting. The couple divorced amicably in 1976. He now lives a quiet life in France, remarried with three children - Actor
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Bernard Fresson was born on 27 May 1931 in Reims, Marne, France. He was an actor, known for Z (1969), French Connection II (1975) and Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959). He was married to Monique Levrez and Jacqueline Ruchaud. He died on 20 October 2002 in Orsay, Essonne, France.- Actor
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Sami Frey was born on 13 October 1937 in Paris, France. He is an actor and director, known for Band of Outsiders (1964), En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud (1993) and Black Widow (1987).- Actor
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Maurice Garrel was born on 24 February 1923 in Saint-Servais, Isère, France. He was an actor and writer, known for To Commit a Murder (1967), La maison des bories (1970) and Kings & Queen (2004). He was married to Martine. He died on 4 June 2011 in Paris, France.- Actor
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Stéphan Guérin-Tillié was born on 20 June 1972 in Reims. France. He is an actor and writer, known for Juste une question d'amour (2000), Edy (2005) and The Count of Monte Cristo (1998).- Warren Guetta is known for LOL (Laughing Out Loud) (2008), Le retour du fils (2012) and Bus Palladium (2010).
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Jérémy Kapone was born on 16 April 1990 in Douarnenez, France. He is an actor, known for LOL (Laughing Out Loud) (2008), Lola and Parisiennes (2015).- Actor
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Laurent Lafitte was born on 22 August 1973 in Fresnes, Val-de-Marne, France. He is an actor and writer, known for Elle (2016), The Little Prince (2015) and Tell No One (2006).- Actor
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Xavier Lafitte was born on 8 August 1974 in Paris, France. He is an actor and director, known for Yves Saint Laurent (2014), Ainsi soufflait le vent (2015) and Transferts (2017).- Actor
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Handsome, charming, and versatile actor Ray Lovelock was born on June 19, 1950 in Rome, Italy to an Italian mother and English father. Lovelock's father was an allied British soldier who in 1944 liberated Italy from a fascist regime. Ray's father met and eventually married his mother while stationed in Italy. Lovelock was the third of four sons and the only artist of the quartet. Ray first became interested in acting while attending college as a teenager. He began as an extra in both movies and TV commercials to make extra money. An acting agent discovered Ray performing in the Roman nightclub the Piper in a rock band with longtime friend and fellow thespian Tomas Milian. This led to his first role in the spaghetti Western Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! (1967).
However, it was Ray's part in the hugely successful The Violent Four (1968) that really launched his acting career. Lovelock was fine as David, a free-spirited hippie drifter who falls under the seductive spell of three sexy witches in the eerie Queens of Evil (1970) (besides playing the lead in this picture, Ray also sang the haunting folk theme song. Lovelock sung the title tracks for many films that he appeared in throughout the years.) He was likewise excellent as reluctant hero George in the terrific zombie horror cult classic Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974) and as Mimsy Farmer's smooth race car driver lover Edgar in the morbid giallo Autopsy (1975). Ray gave a memorably slimy performance as apathetic criminal gang leader Aldo in the brutal The Last House on the Beach (1978). Lovelock had a recurring role as surgeon Dr. Hans Rudolf on the Italian TV series "Incantesimo." His wife Gioia was also his agent. They met in 1968 and got married in 1970. Their daughter Francesca Lovelock was born in 1971 and works as an assistant director and production manager in Naples. An avid soccer lover, Ray served as the captain of an Italian actors soccer team who played soccer matches to raise money for charity. Lovelock died of cancer at age 67 on November 10, 2017.- Actor
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Axel Kiener is known for Paris, I Love You (2006), LOL (Laughing Out Loud) (2008) and No Limit (2012).- Actor
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Jalil Lespert was born on 11 May 1976 in Paris, France. He is an actor and director, known for Infinity Pool (2023), Yves Saint Laurent (2014) and Human Resources (1999).- Alexis Loret was born on 10 January 1975 in Saint Lô, Manche, France. He is an actor, known for Alice and Martin (1998), Just Visiting (2001) and Transferts (2017).
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Christophe Malavoy was born on 21 March 1952 in Reutlingen, Germany. He is an actor and writer, known for Family Rock (1982), Monte Carlo (2011) and La femme de ma vie (1986).- Actor
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Philippe March was born on 11 December 1924 in Fresnes en Woevre, Meuse, France. He was an actor and writer, known for Classe Tous Risques (1960), The Three Musketeers: Part I - The Queen's Diamonds (1961) and Rouletabille (1966). He died on 12 July 1980 in Paris, France.- Actor
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Christian Marquand was born on 15 March 1927 in Marseille, France. He was an actor and director, known for Apocalypse Now (1979), The Longest Day (1962) and The Flight of the Phoenix (1965). He was married to Tina Aumont. He died on 22 November 2000 in Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France.- Vincent Martinez is known for The School of Flesh (1998), Three Dancing Slaves (2004) and Écorchés (2005).