Kacey Mottet Klein
Kacey Mottet Klein ([keˌsimoˌtɛˈklɛ̃], born October 20, 1998 in Bussigny-près-Lausanne ) is a Swiss actor from the canton of Vaud .
Life
Kacey Mottet Klein grew up in Bussigny-près-Lausanne with his mother and adoptive father. Thanks to his father's origins, he also has an American passport.
In the film Home he played Julien, the ten-year-old son of a family that lives right on a motorway. For this role he was awarded the Swiss Film Prize in 2009 for “Best Young Acting Talent”.
Kacey Mottet Klein won the Swiss Film Prize 2013 as the main actor in the film Winter Thief , directed by Ursula Meier . In this film he plays the twelve-year-old Simon who steals from ski tourists in order to make ends meet for himself and the older Louise, who pretends to be his sister. Mottet Klein also received a César nomination for this film role in 2013 .
In 2016 he was honored as a Shooting Star at the Berlin International Film Festival after the presentation of his film Mit Seventeen (directed by André Téchiné ) .
Mottet Klein has lived in Brussels with his girlfriend since 2015 .
Filmography (selection)
- 2008 Home , directed by Ursula Meier
- 2010 Gainsbourg - The Man Who Loved Women (Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque)) , directed by Joann Sfar
- 2012 Winter Thief (L'enfant d'en haut) , directed by Ursula Meier
- 2012 Le magasin des suicides, voice of Alan (animation), directed by Patrice Leconte
- 2014 Kacey Mottet Klein, Beginnings as an Actor as Himself (short film, documentary form), directed by Ursula Meier
- 2014 Gemma Bovery - A Summer with Flaubert (Gemma Bovery)
- 2015 Une mère, directed by Christine Carrière
- 2015 Keeper , directed by Guillaume Senez
- 2016 With Seventeen (Quand on a 17 ans) , directed by André Téchiné
- 2017 A Royal Exchange (L'échange des princesses) , directed by Marc Dugain
- 2017 Schockwellen - Diary of Death (Ondes de choc - Journal de ma tête) , first part of the four-part mini-series, directed by Ursula Meier
- 2019 L'adieu à la nuit, directed by André Téchiné
Web links
- Kacey Mottet Klein in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kacey Mottet Klein on swissfilms.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ The young star's stage fright before the Quartz Night Article on swissinfo.ch of March 7, 2009
- ↑ The former child star has matured into a young man: Kacey Mottet Klein struggles with the illusory world of the film industry Article on nzz.ch from October 3, 2019
- ↑ Kacey Mottet Klein is the Swiss Shooting Star 2016 article on swissfilms.ch from December 15, 2015
- ↑ Kacey Mottet Klein, déjà star! Tribune de Genève , article of February 16, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klein, Kacey Mottet |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1998 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bussigny-près-Lausanne |