Lucien Jean-Baptiste
Lucien Jean-Baptiste (born May 6, 1964 in Fort de France , Martinique ) is a French actor , voice actor and director .
Life
Jean-Baptiste spent his early childhood in Martinique and moved to France with his mother and five siblings at the age of three. At the age of eight, his mother signed him up for a casting agency that was shooting commercials for Africa with Jean-Baptiste in Paris . However, he gave up his acting ambitions, trained as an advertising specialist and founded an advertising agency in Paris, which he managed for twelve years.
At the age of 31 he took acting lessons at the private drama school Cours Florent in Paris. He became a sought-after voice actor and is the French voice u. a. by Chris Rock , Martin Lawrence , Don Cheadle , Jamie Foxx and Will Smith . After minor roles in short, television and cinema films, he had his breakthrough as an actor in Emmenez-moi in 2005 .
In the 2009 autobiographical comedy film Meet the Elisabeths! he took on the lead role, wrote the screenplay and also directed for the first time. With 1.6 million viewers, the film was a surprise success in France. Jean-Baptiste received a César nomination for the film in 2010 in the category Best First Work . His second directorial work appeared in 2012 with 30 ° couleur , followed in 2016 with Dieumerci! his third film as a director. In the same year another directorial work was published with Similar to confusing .
Filmography (selection)
- 1999: Another World (Du bleu jusqu'en Amérique)
- 2001: Jeu de cons
- 2001: De l'amour
- 2001: C'est la vie
- 2001: Caméra café (TV series, six episodes)
- 2002: La mental
- 2003: From heaven high (Quand tu descendras du ciel)
- 2003: The man without a head (L'homme sans tête) (short film)
- 2003: L'outremangeur
- 2004: L'ex-femme de ma vie
- 2005: Emmenez-moi
- 2006: Birds of the Sky (Les oiseaux du ciel)
- 2006: Les irréductibles
- 2006: On va s'aimer
- 2007: 13 m²
- 2007: The Murder of Princess Diana (The Murder of Princess Diana) (TV)
- 2009: Meet the Elisabeths! (La première étoile) - also director, screenplay
- 2009: Aliker
- 2010: Henry
- 2011: Don't trust anyone (La proie)
- 2011: Possessions
- 2012: My first love (Ma première fois)
- 2012: 30 ° couleur - also direction, screenplay
- 2013: Turf
- 2013: La vraie vie des profs
- 2013: Je fais le mort
- 2013: Fonzy
- 2016: Dieumerci!
- 2016: Similar to confusion (Il a déjà tes yeux)
- 2016: I prefer to live in an unusual way (C'est quoi cette famille ?!)
Awards
- 2009: Grand Prix of the Alpe d'Huez International Comedy Film Festival for Meet the Elisabeths!
- 2009: Audience Award of the Alpe d'Huez International Comedy Film Festival for Meet the Elisabeths!
- 2010: César nomination, best first work , for Meet the Elisabeths!
Web links
- Lucien Jean-Baptiste in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Christina Bylow: Between looking for roots and obsession with adaptation . berliner-zeitung.de, December 31, 2009.
Individual evidence
- ↑ La première étoile - Informations sur le réalisateur ( Memento of the original of February 14, 2015 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. at institutfrancais.de.
- ↑ See short biography of Lucien Jean-Baptiste on theatiner-film.de
- ↑ Short biography of Lucien Jean-Baptiste on archiv.deutschesfilmmuseum.de (PDF).
- ↑ Short biography of Lucien Jean-Baptiste on frenetic.ch (PDF).
- ↑ Cf. Box office to meet the Elisabeths! on allocine.fr
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jean-Baptiste, Lucien |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French actor, voice actor and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fort de France |