Benoît Magimel

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Benoît Magimel (2016)

Benoît Magimel (born May 11, 1974 in Paris ) is a French actor .

biography

childhood and education

Benoît Magimel was born in Paris to a nurse and a bank clerk . When he was twelve years old, his mother saw an advertisement in the French daily newspaper Liberation , which called for participation in a film casting . In fact, the boy auditioned and got one of the two main roles in Étienne Chatiliez 's film Life is a Long, Calm River . The social comedy , which tells the story of two 12-year-old children who were mixed up at birth and raised in the wrong family, became a favorite with critics and audiences in 1988 and won four Césars , the French equivalent of an Oscar . This was followed by roles for Magimel in Christine Lipinska's comedy Zum Teufel mit den Eltern and the television series Pause-café , as well as other appearances in various French TV productions.

After Benoît Magimel took a liking to the acting profession through his rapid success, he gave up his desire to become a firefighter and at the age of 16 decided entirely to pursue a career in the film business. In 1993 he played again under the direction of Christine Lipinskas in Le Cahier volé , a romantic drama starring Elodie Bouchez during the Second World War . Several television roles followed, including in Philippe Monnier 's multi-part TV series Jalna , before he got a leading role in Benoît Jacquot's drama The Lonely Girl . In this film, he acted alongside Virginie Ledoyen as an unemployed youth who is confronted with the pregnancy of his young girlfriend. In the same year, Magimel received a supporting role in Mathieu Kassovitz ' Hatred, with Vincent Cassel and Saïd Taghmaoui in the leading roles. The celebrated social drama won the Cannes Film Festival directing award and three Césars, including best film of the year.

Breakthrough in the film business

In 1996, after appearing in Samuel Tasinaje's short film 15 sans billets , Magimel was given a supporting role in André Téchiné's film Thieves of the Night with Catherine Deneuve and Daniel Auteuil in the leading roles. The thriller , set around the death of a burglar and its consequences, marked Magimel's breakthrough as an adult actor. For his role as Jimmy Fontana , he received a César nomination for Best Young Male Actor and the Prix ​​Michel Simon in 1997 . The charismatic actor was only able to build on this success years later. After the lead role as the eccentric Alfred de Musset in Diane Kurys ' historical costume film The Love Drama of Venice (1999), he embodied the vain Louis XIV in the drama The King Dances (2000). For this role, he spent three months in a ballet studio to study baroque dance . A year later followed the male lead in Michael Haneke's film The Piano Player . In the same film adaptation of the novel by Elfriede Jelinek mimed Magimel the young Viennese student Walter Klemmer , extending from the self-destructive and outwardly frigid piano teacher Erika Kohut feels tightened. The disturbing relationship drama brought him and his colleague Isabelle Huppert the actor's award at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival . In addition, the self-taught actor , who has never attended drama school, was nominated for the audience award of the European Film Awards for best actor.

After the great success of Die Klavierspielerin , Magimel appeared in both ambitious and mainly commercial film productions. He was best known for being able to give dark, serious and introverted characters a face. In 2003 and 2004 he starred twice under the direction of the renowned French director Claude Chabrol . In the thriller The Flower of Evil he acted a. a. alongside Suzanne Flon and Nathalie Baye , with whom he starred in the 2000 drama The Boss's Wife . In The Bridesmaid , the film adaptation of a crime novel by Ruth Rendell , Laura Smet was his film partner, who as the mysterious Senta asks him for a fatal proof of love. He became known to a broad European audience through The Purple Rivers 2 - The Angels of the Apocalypse , based on a novel by Jean-Christophe Grangé . After Vincent Cassel's rejection, Magimel and Jean Reno formed an investigative duo to track down sinister murders in a French monastery . In 2005, Gérard Pirès 'adventure film Les chevaliers du ciel followed , and the actor also worked on Lionel Bailius' thriller Fair Play . In Marion Cotillard and Nicole Garcia's film project Selon Charlie he was a. a. next to Jean-Pierre Bacri , Vincent Lindon and Benoît Poelvoorde . In 2005 one of the greatest commercial successes for him in France followed, the aviator film Sky Fighters, equipped with accomplished aerial combat actions . In 2007, he worked again with Claude Chabrol on the drama The Two-Part Woman , in which he vied for the favor of Ludivine Sagnier with François Berléand as the volatile heir to a family fortune .

Benoît Magimel lives in Paris and was in a relationship from 1999 to 2003 with his actress Juliette Binoche , who was ten years older than him , and whom he met while filming The Love Drama of Venice . Both have a daughter (* 2000) together. With his new wife, the actress Nikita Lespinasse, he had a second daughter named Djinina on October 19, 2011.

Filmography (selection)

Benoît Magimel (2011)

Awards

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SURNAME Magimel, Benoît
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France