David Dewaele

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David Dewaele (born March 19, 1976 in Hazebrouck , Nord-Pas-de-Calais as David Sébastien Dewaele ; † February 27, 2013 ibid) was a French actor .

life and career

David Dewaele was born in Hazebrouck in northern France in 1976 , 16 km from the Belgian border. Dewaele grew up as a working class child in poor circumstances and a socially difficult environment. He found support only with his grandmother. As a teenager, drug and alcohol problems arose and a life began between youth prisons and extravagant adventures in bars and pubs. Mostly cut by French society until the mid-1990s, he converted to Islam .

Dewaele gained his first short camera experience in 1985 when he was nine years old in the short film De boot by Jaco Van Dormael and a year later he was able to work in the TV miniseries Adriaen Brouwer .

In 2006 he met the French director Bruno Dumont at the employment office in Hazebrouck, who offered him a small role in his film Flanders . Dewaele mastered his brief appearance brilliantly and so Dumont engaged him again in 2009, this time for the supporting role of David in his drama Hadewijch . Impressed by the intense portrayal of his film character, he entrusted David Dewaele with the male lead in his film Hors Satan in 2011 . There he embodied the antihero and outsider Le Gars. The film received very benevolent reviews in the press, including The New York Times and The Guardian, and Dewaele's performance as a social antihero was highly praised.

In 2012, he starred in the documentary Shut Up and Play the Hits by directors Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern.

Before there could be a new movie offer, David Dewaele died on February 27, 2013 in his hometown of the consequences of a stroke. He was only 37 years old.

Filmography

movie theater

  • 2006: Flanders (Flandres)
  • 2009: Hadewijch
  • 2011: Hors Satan

Short film

  • 1985: De boot

documentary

  • 2012: Shut Up and Play the Hits

watch TV

  • 1986: Adriaen Brouwer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ David Dewaele in: The New York Times
  2. ^ David Dewaele in: The Guardian
  3. ^ Obituary for David Dewaele in: Allocine
personal data
SURNAME Dewaele, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dewaele, David Sébastien (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Hazebrouck , Nord-Pas-de-Calais , France
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 2013
Place of death Hazebrouck , Nord-Pas-de-Calais , France