François Cluzet

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François Cluzet (2014)

François Cluzet (born September 21, 1955 in Paris ) is a French actor .

Life

The son of a Parisian newspaper seller grew up in a simple family. His parents divorced when he was a child. Inspired by Jacques Brel in The Man from La Mancha , he began an acting training at the Cours Simon at the age of 17 . From 1976 he was on the theater stage and very soon he was working with well-known French directors such as Claude Chabrol and Bertrand Tavernier , and later with Robert Altman .

In 2006 he had his breakthrough as Dr. Alexandre Beck in No Death Word . His second collaboration with Guillaume Canet came about in 2010 in his third film Little True Lies , in which Cluzet was a stressed hotelier. In 2011, he starred as a paralyzed millionaire in the globally successful film Pretty Best Friends of Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano. His appearance in Pretty Best Friends gave his career another boost, says Cluzet: “Before that, the directors always wanted to cast me, but the producers didn't. Now I'm also in demand with producers. "

Cluzet has four children; Paul with Marie Trintignant , the daughter of Jean-Louis Trintignant who died in 2003 , Blanche from another relationship and Joseph and Marguerite from his thirteen-year relationship with Valérie Bonneton . The two played a married couple in Little True Lies in 2010 , and they separated after filming. Since July 5, 2011, François Cluzet has been married to Narjiss Slaoui-Falcoz, a French woman of Moroccan descent.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. If one puts surrender before everything, one cannot be seduced. , Süddeutsche.de of September 8, 2016, accessed on September 9, 2016

Web links

Commons : François Cluzet  - Collection of images, videos and audio files