Laurent Malet

Laurent Malet (born September 3, 1955 in Bayonne ) is a French actor .

Life

Laurent Malet is the twin brother of actor Pierre Malet and half-brother of actor Olivier Guespin . Malet made his stage debut at the age of 19 in 1975 in Lyon at the Théâtre des Célestins in The Trojan War does not take place . At the side of Claude Jade as Helena, he played her young lover Trollius. Three years later he became internationally known with Claude Chabrol's film Blutsverwandte (1978), in which he played young Andrew alongside Donald Sutherland and Stéphane Audran . Gilles Béhat gave him the lead role in the war drama Haro that same year . It was followed by Joseph Losey's roads south and his part as Lino Ventura's son in A Man in Rage . One of his most colorful roles at that time was Roger Bataille in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Querelle (1982) based on the novel by Jean Genet .

In the 1980s he played among other renowned filmmakers such as Andrzej Wajda ( The Demons ), Jean-Pierre Mocky ( Death of the Referee ), Jacques Demy ( Parking ), Gilles Béhat ( Charlie Dingo ) and Claude Lelouch ( Viva la Vie - Long live life ). After 2000 Laurent Malet played several times with Raoul Ruiz ( Ce jour-là , La Maison Nucingen ).

In 2006 his book En attendant la suite was published , in which he dealt with the death of his mother, who had died of a brain tumor.