Christopher Thompson (actor)

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Christopher Thompson (2013)

Christopher John William Thompson (born August 13, 1966 in New York City ) is a French actor and screenwriter .

Life

As the grandson of director Gérard Oury and son of screenwriter Danièle Thompson , Christopher Thompson came into contact with the film business at an early age. After completing his Baccalauréat - he had moved from his native New York to France as a child - he first studied art history in the United States. In 1989 he appeared on the screen for the first time in the large-scale historical film The French Revolution in the role of the writer and revolutionary Louis Antoine de Saint-Just . This was followed by a supporting role in Giuseppe Tornatore's drama Allen is fine (1990) on the side of Marcello Mastroianni and Michèle Morgan . For his appearance in the film Les Marmottes , for which his mother had written the screenplay, Thompson received a 1994 nomination for the César in the category of best young actor . He then appeared in 1995 in James Ivory's Jefferson in Paris alongside Nick Nolte and in Total Eclipse - The Affair of Rimbaud and Verlaine alongside Leonardo DiCaprio .

For La Bûche (1999), his mother's directorial debut about a family getting together at Christmas time, in which he was part of the cast alongside Sabine Azéma and Emmanuelle Béart , Thompson wrote a screenplay for the first time with his mother. Together they received the Prix ​​Lumières in the Best Screenplay category and a nomination for César. Another César nomination brought them in 2007 for the film A Perfect Place , set around the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées , in which Christopher Thompson was both screenwriter and actor alongside Cécile de France and Claude Brasseur . Another collaboration between mother and son was the 2009 comedy Affaires à la carte, starring Karin Viard and Dany Boon . In 2010, Thompson made his directorial debut with Bus Palladium , a film about a rock band's first tour in the 1980s.

Thompson has also been active in television since the early 1990s, often working with director Josée Dayan , who kept coming back to him as an actor. In Dayan's multi-part literary adaptations, The Count of Monte Christo (1998) and Les Misérables - Prisoners of Fate (2002), he was seen alongside Gérard Depardieu . In 2000 he was in Glengarry Glen Ross , a play by David Mamet , together with Michel Duchaussoy on the stage. In 2011, a stage version of Joan Didion's autobiographical book The Year of Magical Thoughts, which he had translated , was performed at the Théâtre de l'Atelier in Paris under the title L'Année de la pensée magique . Fanny Ardant slipped into the sole role of the one-person play . In 2018, Le Lauréat , a theatrical version of Charles Webb's debut novel, which was filmed as The Graduation Exam, also premiered at the Théâtre Montparnasse , which was translated into French by Thompson .

Thompson has two daughters with actress Géraldine Pailhas , whom he married in 2017 after a longstanding relationship. His sister Caroline Thompson (* 1964), who, like him, emerged from his mother's marriage to the American businessman Richard Thompson, is a psychoanalyst.

Filmography (selection)

Thompson with Géraldine Pailhas at the 2014 César Awards
Thompson at the preview of Didine in Paris (2008)

actor

Screenwriter

  • 1999: La Bûche
  • 2002: Jet Lag - Or where love flies (Décalage horaire)
  • 2006: A perfect place (Fauteuils d'orchestre)
  • 2006: Le Héros de la famille
  • 2008: A castle in Sweden (Château en Suède) (TV movie)
  • 2009: affairs à la carte (Le Code a changé)
  • 2010: Bus Palladium - also director
  • 2011: Les Yeux de sa mère
  • 2013: A wedding and other obstacles (Des gens qui s'embrassent)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Christopher Thompson  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. lesgensducinema.com
  2. ↑ Michael H. Miller: Boy on the Bus . In: The New York Observer , January 19, 2011.
  3. ↑ a b c cf. gala.fr
  4. ↑ cf. allocine.fr
  5. ↑ cf. theatremontparnasse.com
  6. ↑ See Best of littéraire: Danièle Thompson et Cynthia Fleury on franceinter.fr, October 25, 2019.
  7. ↑ cf. geneanet.org
personal data
SURNAME Thompson, Christopher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thompson, Christopher John William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City