Jérémie Renier
Jérémie Renier (born January 6, 1981 in Brussels ) is a Belgian theater and film actor .
Life
childhood and education
Jérémie Renier was born in Brussels in 1981 as the youngest of four children. He grew up with his parents, both of whom suffer from the rare glass bone disease, as well as two sisters and a brother. Renier became interested in acting at an early age and attended acting and theater courses. During the holidays, Renier completed internships at the Rétine de Plateau , a non-profit organization founded in 1985 that made short films , among other things , and sporadically attended a circus school . The blonde actor also took part in auditions that gave his game security. In 1991 Renier auditioned for the leading role in Jaco Van Dormael's Toto der Held without success , but a year later, at the age of ten, he was able to secure a supporting role in Beatriz Flores Silva's comedy Les Sept Péchés capitaux . Renier celebrated his first success on stage. He played the main role of Pinocchio at the Royal Theater of Mons . The production was later broadcast on Belgian television. In 1993 Renier got the leading role in the Belgian-Swiss television production La Mélodie des héros by Tiziana Caminada .
Feature film debut with La Promesse
Renier made his screen debut in 1996 at the age of 14. In the drama La Promesse - The Promise of the Belgian Brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne , he acts as Igor , who, together with his father, rents apartments to illegal immigrants and exploits them. The film became an international success and was awarded prizes at numerous film festivals . Renier was praised by critics for his intense game in his home country Belgium and also in France. In the neighboring country he then received several role offers and finally decided in 1999 to work with the French director François Ozon . In Ozone's fairytale crime film A Criminal Couple , the young student Alice (played by Natacha Régnier ) cannot choose between two boys and then decides to get one of them out of the way. The film received controversial criticism and competed in the 1999 Venice Film Festival .
After working with François Ozon, Renier acted in both historical large-scale productions and contemporary independent films . In 2000 he was seen in Nicolas Klein's 23-minute film Le Fétichiste as a foot fetishist who finds work in a shoe store and meets a customer who suffers from shoe fetishism . That same year he was part of the ensemble cast of Patricia Mazuys historical drama The school of lost girls in which Isabelle Huppert , the Madame de Maintenon plays the secret mistress and later wife of Louis XIV. Of France. This was followed by the title role in Olivier Jahan's drama The Little Voyeur , in which he slipped into the role of the disturbed youth again, before Renier appeared alongside Samuel Le Bihan , Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci in the historical horror film Pact of the Wolves , which was very different successfully served the legend of the beast of Gévaudan . In 2002 followed, among other things, a leading role in Yolande Zauberman's war drama The War in Paris alongside Elodie Bouchez . In the same year, Renier was named Shooting Star of the Year 2002 by the European Film Promotion, along with other young European actors .
Breakthrough in the film business
In 2003, Renier Jean-Marc Moutouts had a unique opportunity . The role of the junior manager Philippe , who is called upon to secretly take over the company and who sacrifices the love of his life for his career, brought the Belgian actor two years later a nomination for the prestigious French film award César for best young actor . After a series of television productions, including the homoerotic war drama Un amour à taire , the high point in Renier's career followed in 2005 with the renewed collaboration between the Dardenne brothers. In the drama Das Kind , Renier portrays the twenty-year-old Bruno who is hired as a fence in the run-down Belgian industrial town of Seraing . When his girlfriend (played by Déborah François ) becomes pregnant and gives birth to a child, he sells his son to child traffickers for five thousand euros at the next best opportunity . When he realizes his mistake, Bruno and the empty stroller go looking for his son and begin to learn responsibility via detours. The child received critical acclaim at its premiere at the Cannes International Film Festival and was awarded the Palme d'Or for best film. For his part in the official Belgian Oscar entry for 2006, Renier received a nomination for the European Film Prize for Best Actor , alongside Daniel Auteuil , Romain Duris , Henry Hübchen and Ulrich Matthes , among others . In the same year he was given the prestigious Jean Gabin Prize for the best young actor by the French film industry .
Renier lives in Paris so that he can devote more time to his career. In 2006 he worked on three film productions, including the thriller Fair Play with Marion Cotillard and Benoît Magimel and Lionel Delplanque's Film Président . In 2007 he made his debut in English-language cinema with the small role of a dying soldier in apology at the side of Romola Garai . In 2009 followed the lead role in Niki Caro's historical drama The Vintner's Luck alongside Gaspard Ulliel , Vera Farmiga and Keisha Castle-Hughes , with which he was unable to build on previous successes. This was followed by renewed work with François Ozon ( Das Schmuckstück , 2010) and the Dardenne brothers ( The Boy with a Bicycle , 2011). He was nominated again for a César in 2013 for his portrayal of the musician Claude François, who is popular in France, in Florent-Emilio Siri's biopic My Way - A Life for Chanson (2012).
Renier's older brother Yannick is also an actor.
Filmography
- 1996: La Promesse - The Promise (La promesse)
- 1999: A criminal couple (Les amants criminels)
- 2000: Le Fétichiste (short film)
- 2000: The School of the Lost Girls (Saint-Cyr)
- 2000: The little voyeur (Faites comme si je n'étais pas là)
- 2001: Pact of the Wolves (Le Pacte des loups)
- 2001: The Pornographer (Le Pornographe)
- 2002: The War in Paris (La Guerre à Paris )
- 2003: A child of our time (Un fils de notre temps) (television), based on the novel of the same name by Ödön von Horváth
- 2003: A unique opportunity (Violence des échanges en milieu tempéré)
- 2004: San Antonio
- 2004: Toi, vieux
- 2004: La petite Fadette (TV)
- 2005: Un amour à taire (television)
- 2005: The Child (L'Enfant)
- 2005: Cavalcade
- 2006: fair play
- 2006: Dikkenek
- 2006: Intrigue of Power (President)
- 2006: New propriété
- 2007: Atonement (Atonement)
- 2008: see Bruges ... and die? (In Bruges)
- 2008: Lorna's Silence (Le Silence de Lorna)
- 2008: End of Summer (L'heure d'été)
- 2009: The Angel with Dark Wings (The Vintner's Luck)
- 2009: Demain dès l'aube
- 2010: Pièce montée
- 2010: The jewel (Potiche)
- 2011: The boy with the bike (Le gamin au vélo)
- 2011: Possessions
- 2012: My Way - A Life for the Chanson (Cloclo)
- 2012: The Hidden City (Elefante blanco)
- 2012: A musketeer for all occasions (Les aventures de Philibert, capitaine puceau)
- 2013: Intus (short film)
- 2013: Brotherhood of Tears - The Last Delivery (La confrérie des larmes)
- 2014: Saint Laurent
- 2014: Le grand homme
- 2014: Waste Land
- 2015: Sanctuaire (TV)
- 2015: Ladygrey
- 2015: Ni le ciel ni la terre
- 2016: The Unknown Girl (La fille inconnue)
- 2016: Éternité
- 2016: Francis of Assisi and his brothers (L'ami - François d'Assise et ses frères)
- 2017: The Other Lover (Lamant double)
- 2018: L'ordre des médecins
- 2019: Slalom
- 2019: Frankie
Awards
- 2002: Belgian Shooting Star at the Berlinale
- 2005: César nomination for Violence des échanges en milieu tempéré (Best Young Actor)
- 2005: Nomination for the European Film Award for The Child (Best Actor)
- 2006: Jean Gabin Prize
- 2006: Joseph Plateau Prize for The Child (Best Belgian Actor)
- 2012: Actor Award of the Cabourg Romantic Film Festival for My Way - A Life for Chanson
- 2012: Magritte for Das Schmuckstück (Best Supporting Actor)
- 2013: César nomination for My Way - A Life for Chanson (Best Actor)
- 2013: Globe de cristal for My Way - A life for the chanson (best actor)
- 2015: Actor Award of the Swedish Peace & Love Film Festival for Ni le ciel ni la terre
- 2015: César nomination for Saint Laurent (Best Supporting Actor)
- 2015: Magritte for Saint Laurent (Best Supporting Actor)
Web links
- Jérémie Renier in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official web presence of the actor (French, offline)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Renier, Jérémie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brussels , Belgium |