Damien Bonnard

Damien Bonnard (2019)

Damien Bonnard (born July 22, 1978 in Alès ) is a French actor .

Life

Bonnard was born in Alès in 1978, but grew up in Bourgogne . He left high school at the age of 16, took on odd jobs, including as a pizza maker and construction worker, and then attended the École des Beaux-arts in Nîmes for four years . After stays in Belgium, Canada and Algeria, among others, he returned to Paris, where at the age of 28 he began to work as a junk boy for film production companies and took part in various castings.

He gained experience in film from 2009 and has appeared in numerous short films. He took on minor supporting roles in movies, for example in The Sound of Ice Cubes in 2010 and in Augustine in 2012 . Bonnard had his breakthrough as an actor in 2016 in Alain Guiraudie's Rester vertical , in which he took on the leading role. For his portrayal of the filmmaker Léo, who suddenly has to take responsibility for his newborn son, Bonnard received a Prix ​​Lumières for Best Young Actor in 2017 . He was also nominated for a César for Best Young Actor. Other feature films followed, including the French-American coproduction Thirst Street by Nathan Silver in 2017 ; Bonnard was seen as a French soldier in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk in 2017.

Filmography (selection)

• 2010: Hors la loi
• 2010: The sound of ice cubes (Le bruit des glaçons)
• 2011: Low Cost
• 2012: Augustine
• 2012: Orléans
• 2012: Next, please! (Un plan parfait)
• 2013: La pièce manquante
• 2014: Mercuriales
• 2015: La résistance de l'air
• 2015: L'astragale
• 2015: La terre penche
• 2016: Vendeur
• 2016: Rester vertical
• 2016: See the world (Voir du pays)
• 2017: Thirst Street
• 2017: Based on a true story (D'après une histoire vraie)
• 2017: Dunkirk
• 2017: 9 doigts
• 2019: Blanche comme neige
• 2018: Better Antoine than no trouble at all (En liberté!)
• 2018: La nuit des sacs plastiques
• 2019: The Furious - Les Misérables (Les Misérables)
• 2019: Only the animals (Seules les bêtes)
• 2019: Intrigue (J'accuse)
• 2019: The Wolf's Call - Decision in depth (Le chant du loup)

Awards

• 2017: Prix ​​Lumières , Best Young Actor, for Rester vertical
• 2017: César nomination, Best Young Actor, for Rester vertical
• 2020: César nomination, Best Actor, for The Angry - Les Misérables

Web links

Commons : Damien Bonnard  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Damien Bonnard in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Sabrina Champenois: Damien Bonnard, en vies . next.liberation.fr, May 14, 2016.
2. ↑ Damien Bonnard - La biography on gala.fr
3. ↑ Clermont 2017: Damien Bonnard, acteur engagé dans “Les Misérables” . telerama.fr, February 11, 2017.
4. ↑ https://www.20minutes.fr/arts-stars/cinema/2706103-20200129-cesar-2020-12-nominations-accuse-roman-polanski-11-miserables