Finnegan Oldfield

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Finnegan Oldfield at the 2018 César

Finnegan Oldfield (born January 10, 1991 in Lewes ) is a British- French film actor .

Life

Finnegan Oldfield in 1991 in southern England Lewes in the county of East Sussex born. He grew up in France, where his father, Ben, who is from Brighton, works as a musician. He had come to Paris to study Jamaican music. Here he met his mother Brigitte, a French woman who works as a teacher. He has a sister, a half sister and a half brother.

Oldfield first appeared in front of the camera at the age of ten after auditioning for a short film at the urging of his mother. So he began his film career in 2002 in Blandine Lenoir Pas de Pitié . He finished school at the age of 15 and in 2003 took on the leading role of Jean-Baptiste Seignelet in the television film Insel der Diebe (original title L'île atlantique ) by Gérard Mordillat . After that he decided to devote himself to cinema and interrupted his studies. Engagements in the television series La Commune and Engrenages followed . In 2011 he starred in the thriller Mineurs 27 .

After Oldfield was seen in Ni le ciel ni la terre by Clément Cogitore in 2015 , which earned him the jury award for best supporting actor at the Jean Carmet Festival, he got the lead role in Les cowboys by Thomas Bidegain . From then on he devoted himself to more serious roles, such as in 2016 in Bang Gang by Eva Husson . In Marvin by Anne Fontaine , which premiered in 2017 as part of the Venice Film Festival , he played alongside Isabelle Huppert and Grégory Gadebois, a homosexual youth who fled the French provinces to Paris, where he flourished and lived out his artistic talents can. Oldfield was nominated for this role at the César and the Prix ​​Lumières in 2018 .

Filmography (selection)

  • 2003: Island of Thieves ( L'île atlantique , TV movie)
  • 2007: La commune (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 2008: Les hauts murs
  • 2010: Engrenages - In the crosshairs of justice ( Engrenages , TV series, 5 episodes)
  • 2011: Who Killed Marilyn?
  • 2011: Miners 27
  • 2014: Weekends in Normandy (Week-ends)
  • 2015: Ni le ciel ni la terre
  • 2015: Les cowboys
  • 2015: Bang Gang
  • 2016. Nocturama
  • 2016: Repairing the living (Réparer les vivants)
  • 2016: One Life (Une vie)
  • 2017: early promise
  • 2017: Marvin (Marvin ou la belle éducation)
  • 2018: Cross (short film)
  • 2018: Le poulain
  • 2019: Exfiltrés
  • 2019: Selfie
  • 2020: Even though I love you ( Amour Fou , TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 2020: Das Boot (TV series)
  • 2020: Gagarine

Awards (selection)

César

Prix ​​Lumières

  • 2017: Nomination for Best Young Actor (Bang Gang)
  • 2018: Nomination for Best Young Actor (Marvin)

Web links

Commons : Finnegan Oldfield  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Finnegan Oldfield. In: filmstarts.de. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  2. ^ Finnegan Oldfield. In: Filmdienst. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  3. ↑ Marvin. In: marvin-der-film.de. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  4. ↑ a b c Finnegan Oldfield: Biography. In: gala.fr. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  5. ↑ Un apéro avec Finnegan Oldfield: “J'ai toujours été une teigne”. In: Le Monde, September 29, 2018. (French)
  6. ^ A b Finnegan Oldfield: Biography. In: allocine.fr. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  7. ↑ Marvin. In: Filmdienst. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Oldfield, Finnegan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-French film actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Lewes , UK