Jean-Hugues Anglade

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Jean-Hugues Anglade (2015)

Jean-Hugues Anglade (born July 29, 1955 in Thouars ) is a French actor . He gained fame from the mid-1980s through leading roles in feature film productions by, among others, Jean-Jacques Brilleix ( Betty Blue - 37.2 degrees in the morning , 1986), Luc Besson ( Subway ) and Patrice Chéreau ( The seduced man - L'Homme blessé , 1983; The Bartholomew Night , 1994),

biography

Training and first film roles

The son of a veterinarian and a social worker studied five years at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in Paris under Antoine Vitez . In 1981, after a number of appearances in French television productions, Anglade made his cinema debut with Pierre Lary's feature film L'Indiscrétion , in which he played a supporting role alongside Jean Rochefort and Dominique Sanda .

The actor celebrated his first success a year later under the direction of the French director Patrice Chéreau . In his crime drama The seduced man - L'Homme blessé , he plays the main role of the young Henri , who discovers his homosexuality and enters into a relationship with a manipulative rent boy and petty criminal. The film, which was shown at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival , earned Anglade critical acclaim and a year later it was nominated for Best Young Actor at the Césars , the French equivalent of the Oscar . After a supporting role in the thriller Dangerous Trains alongside Michel Piccoli , Liv Ullmann and Leslie Caron , among others , a part in Luc Besson's Subway followed in 1986 . The thriller, which takes place in the tunnels of the Paris Métro , was nominated for thirteen Césars in 1986, including Jean-Hugues Anglade for Best Supporting Actor .

Breakthrough with Betty Blue

The big breakthrough in French cinema followed in the same year with his first leading role under the director Jean-Jacques Seeleix . The film Betty Blue - 37.2 degrees in the morning is based on the novel of the same name by Philippe Djian and tells the story of the young writer "Zorg". Betty Blue was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 1987 Academy Awards and earned Anglade his first César nomination for Best Actor and the prestigious Prix ​​Jean Gabin that same year .

As a result, Anglade was committed to the role type from Betty Blue , for example in the love film Krank vor Liebe (1987), in which he vies against Michel Piccoli for the favor of an idealistic hairdresser (played by Nastassja Kinski ). In 1989, the admirer of Robert De Niro starred in Alain Corneau's Nocturnal India . In the road movie , Jean-Hugues Anglade plays the French historian Xavier , who ends up on the west coast of India in search of a lost friend from Bombay . In 1990 Anglade worked again with Luc Besson. In the action thriller Nikita , he plays alongside Anne Parillaud the lover of a young drug addict who is forced to carry out contract killings for the French government. The film was shown in European cinemas and three years later Hollywood made a new film under the codename: Nina . In the same year the film A Summer Night in the City with Marie Trintignant followed , and a year later the episode film Especially on Sunday with Patricia Arquette , Bruno Ganz , Ornella Muti and Philippe Noiret, among others .

César win and international career

Jean-Hugues Anglade celebrated the greatest success of his acting career in 1994 with Die Bartholomäusnacht . Patrice Chéreau's film adaptation of a novel by Alexandre Dumas ' with, among others, Isabelle Adjani , Daniel Auteuil and Vincent Perez in the leading roles describes the intrigue in the 16th century at the French royal court, which culminated in the massacre of thousands of Huguenots in the streets of Paris . His role of the insane French King Charles IX. , who depends on the fortunes of his mother Katharina von Medici (played by Virna Lisi ), earned him the first César for Best Supporting Actor after four unsuccessful nominations . The EUR 27 million large-scale production, which became a national event in France, was nominated for the Golden Globe Award in 1995 and the British BAFTA Award in 1996 for best foreign language film.

Anglade 1995 with the César as Best Supporting Actor

Also in 1994 Anglade made a brief cameo in Luc Besson's Léon - The Professional with Jean Reno and Natalie Portman . A year later he worked with Claude Sautet , in whose film Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud Michel Serrault and Emmanuelle Béart were his film partners. With thrillers such as Roger Avary's Killing Zoe (1994), Gregory Marquette's Blond and Unscrupulous (2000) and Jean-Jacques Brilleix's Mortal Transfer (2001), Anglade tried to establish itself in international cinema and thus also in English-language productions. In 2004 he played his first Hollywood role as the French- Canadian police investigator Duval in the thriller Taking Lives - He would kill for your life with, among others, Ethan Hawke , Angelina Jolie and Kiefer Sutherland . In 2005 Anglade starred alongside Veronica Ferres in the German TV film No Sky over Africa . In 2007 he acted again in Simon Groß 'thriller Fata Morgana, which was filmed in Morocco , in a German production alongside Matthias Schweighöfer and Marie Zielcke . Anglade completed small roles in American television productions such as the award-winning series The Sopranos (2002) and John Adams - Freedom for America (2008). In 2008 and 2009 he also took on the lead role in several crime film adaptations for television in France under the direction of Josée Dayan ( The fourteenth stone , There is still a train from the Gare du Nord and When night falls ), in which he is in the The role of Fred Vargas ' series hero Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg slipped. From 2009 to 2015 he played the lead role of the worn out special forces police officer Eddy Kaplan in the four-season police film series Braquo .

Private life

Anglade, who among other things in the song Cosmopolitan of Vincent Delerm was mentioned, was between 1996 and 2000 with his fellow actress Pamela Soo married. The two met while filming Anglade's first and so far only directorial work Tonka (1997).

In 2001, during the television show "Tout le monde en parle", he surprised the public by saying that he had become a pedophile at the age of 13.

His relationship with Mali Lecomte, which ended in 2004, has two sons, born in 2001 and 2002.

In 2005 he was the victim of a robbery on the banks of the Seine in Paris.

On August 21, 2015, he was injured in a terrorist attack on a Thalys high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris when he smashed a window to set off an alarm. He later raised allegations against the train crew who had escaped to safety in their own cordoned off area and did not respond to the passengers seeking help.

Filmography

Actor (selection)

Director

  • 1997: Tonka

Screenwriter

  • 1997: Tonka

Awards

César

  • 1984: Nominated as the best young actor for The seduced man - L'Homme blessé
  • 1986: Nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Subway
  • 1987: Nominated for Best Actor for Betty Blue - 37.2 degrees in the morning
  • 1990: Nominated for Best Actor for Nocturnal India
  • 1995: Best supporting actor for The Bartholomew Night
  • 1996: nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud
  • 2010 : Nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Persécution

Further

Web links

Commons : Jean-Hugues Anglade  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.visseaux.org/delerm/personnages.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.planet.fr/celebrites-jean-hughes-anglade.29578.32330.html
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.francedimanche.fr
  4. ^ Jean-Hugues Anglade "Interview Psy" | Archive INA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slKuGQm-Z5A
  5. ↑ https://www.hypnoseries.tv/braquo/acteurs/acteurs-principaux/jean-hugues-anglade.162.63/
  6. ↑ http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/les-deux-agresseurs-de-jean-hugues-anglade-arretes-27-01-2006-2006690516.php
  7. ↑ Thalys nightmare: "In the wrong place, but with the right people". In: DiePresse.com. August 22, 2015, accessed January 15, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Zug terror: "Controllers locked themselves in" on heute.at from 23 August 2015
personal data
SURNAME Anglade, Jean-Hugues
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Thouars , France