Guillaume Canet

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Canet in 2013

Guillaume Canet (born April 10, 1973 in Boulogne-Billancourt ) is a French actor , director and screenwriter .

biography

Canet in 2008

The son of a horse breeder was trained as a jockey from childhood before an injury at the age of 18 ended this career. Canet then switched to acting and studied at the Cours Florent drama school in Paris , where famous mimes such as Isabelle Adjani , Daniel Auteuil and Jacques Weber began their careers. He made his theater debut and appeared in Jean-Louis Lorenzi's television film La Colline aux mille enfants in 1994 , which was followed by other television roles.

He made his debut in French cinema in 1997 in Philippe Haïm's thriller Barracuda - Beware of the Neighbor! in which he has to fight off his pushy neighbor Jean Rochefort . Critics first became aware of the young actor in 1999 through Pierre Jolivet's crime film Fatal Alibi , in which he was seen at the side of Gérard Lanvin , Carole Bouquet and Virginie Ledoyen .

The remake of the Brigitte Bardot classic With the Arms of a Woman (1958) earned him a 1999 nomination for César for Best Young Actor . In 2000 he won the prestigious Jean Gabin Prize and became known to a worldwide audience for his role in Danny Boyle's thriller The Beach , in which he again starred alongside Virginie Ledoyen and Leonardo DiCaprio . Other roles followed in Pitof's Vidocq (2001), which is somewhere between thriller and adventure film , Yann Samuell's love comedy Love Me, If You Dare (2003) or Christian Carion's Oscar- nominated war drama Merry Christmas , in which Daniel Brühl , Diane Kruger , Gérard Depardieu , André Dussollier and Benno Fürmann were his film partners.

Parallel to his work as an actor, Guillaume Canet directed theater productions and began a career as a film director in 1996 with the short film Sans regret . Other short films followed, including Je taim (1998) and the contribution Avalance , which was used in the episode film Drug Scenes (2000). His breakthrough as a film director brought him his first feature film Bad, Bad Things , in which he also acted in front of the camera. The story of an aspiring television producer who is invited to his employer's country estate for a weekend for flimsy reasons earned Canet 2003 nominations for a César ( Best First Work category ) and the European Film Prize . He was able to build on this success in 2006 with his second feature film No Death Word , in which François Cluzet tries to uncover the alleged murder of his wife (played by Marie-Josée Croze ). The thriller, which met with great success at the French box office, took the 1.80 meter mimes 2007 as youngest filmmakers in the history of Césars the directing prize one. In 2007 he took on the role of Franck in Claude Berri's romantic comedy Together, you're less alone next to Audrey Tautou . In 2008, according to Figaro , Canet was 7th among the highest-paid actors in France, behind Daniel Auteuil , Mathilde Seigner , Thierry Lhermitte , Christian Clavier , Gérard Jugnot and Jean Dujardin, with a fee of 1.6 million euros per film .

In 2013 he made his first English-language feature film with the remake of the thriller Rivals , in which he himself played the male lead. Blood Ties was shown out of competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival ; the acting ensemble consisted of Clive Owen , Billy Crudup , Zoë Saldaña , James Caan , Lili Taylor , Noah Emmerich , Matthias Schoenaerts and Marion Cotillard .

Canet married German actress Diane Kruger on September 1, 2001 . The couple, who separated in early 2006, are now divorced. Canet has been in a relationship with the French actress Marion Cotillard since 2007 , with whom he was in front of the camera in 2003 for the comedy Love me if you dare and for the adventure film Le Dernier Vol . In 2010, Canet also used it in his tragic comedy Little True Lies . A son and daughter come from the relationship with Cotillard.

Filmography (selection)

Canet in 2004

As an actor

As a director

  • 1996: Sans regrets (short film)
  • 1998: Je t'aime (short film)
  • 2000: Drug scenes (Scénarios sur la drogue , Episode: Avalanche)
  • 2000: J'peux pas dormir ... (short film)
  • 2002: Bad, Bad Things (Mon idole)
  • 2006: No mortal word (Ne le dis à personne)
  • 2010: Little true lies (Les petits mouchoirs)
  • 2013: Blood Ties
  • 2017: Rock'n Roll
  • 2019: Nous finirons ensemble

As a screenwriter

Awards

César

European film award

  • 2003: nominated as "European New Discovery of the Year" for Bad Bad Things

Further

Web links

Commons : Guillaume Canet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Daniel Auteuil et et Mathilde Seigner acteurs français les mieux payés . In: L'Indépendant, February 27, 2008
  2. ↑ cf. Barret, F .: Marion Cotillard moissonne les récompenses . In: La Nouvelle République du Center Ouest, February 23, 2008, p. 2
  3. ↑ cf. Marion Cotillard's biography at IMDb.com (English)
  4. ↑ cf. Marion Cotillard is happy about her first baby at stern.de, May 20, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Canet, Guillaume
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Boulogne-Billancourt , France