Nicolas Cazalé

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Nicolas Cazalé

Nicolas Cazalé (born April 24, 1977 in Pau ) is a French film and television actor.

Career

In his youth, Nicolas Cazalé was active in sports and began studying philosophy. At the age of 18, after participating in a play, he decided to become an actor. He then attended the Paris drama school Cours Florent for a short time , but soon left it again to travel the world. In 2000 he was offered the role of Antonio on the French television show Louis Page - Les gens du voyage . In his first major TV part, Cazalé impersonated the character Friday in a TV adaptation of Robinson Crusoe with Pierre Richard in the title role .

The following year he was seen in Gaël Morel's film Brotherly Love . In it, he played one of three brothers from the working class, alongside Stéphane Rideau and Salim Kechiouche, in the rough landscape of Annecy . The three young men live with their father (the mother has died) and struggle with growing up in different ways and with varying degrees of success.

Cazalé is best known for the film The Great Journey , in which he plays Réda, a young Frenchman of Moroccan descent who, in the midst of high school stress, has to chauffeur his father on his pilgrimage from Aix-en-Provence to Mecca . For this, director Ismaël Ferroukhi received the 2004 Venice Film Festival award for the best debut film and Nicolas Cazalé received the jury award for best actor at the 2005 Newport International Film Festival . Since then, the film offers for him have multiplied.

In 2005 he played the young Saïd in the comedy Saint-Jacques… Pilgrims in French , a Frenchman of Arab origin who wanders to Santiago de Compostela just for love .

In 2007 he played the lover of actress Manuela Vellés in Caótica Ana by director Julio Médem and in the same year played the opaque young Damas in Régis Wargnier's Fred Vargas film Saat des Todes .

In the role of Antoine in the southern French province of The Flying Trader , he reluctantly represents his father, who is lying in the hospital after a heart attack, in his rolling corner shop . Gradually, however, Antoine and his best friend Claire ( Clotilde Hesme ) find the land of their childhood again and maybe love in Claire. In 2008, the character of Antoine earned him a nomination for the César for best young actor . He was also honored as a French Shooting Star at the 2008 Berlinale , a prize for young, aspiring film actors.

In Steve Suissa's biography Mensch he played the part of the Jewish boxer Sam Hazak.

In 2006, Nicolas Cazalé succeeded actor Samuel Le Bihan in campaigns on posters and in catalogs as the cover model of the French fashion label Chevignon .

Since April 2013 he has been a model for Kenzo's Sport Extrême brand , for which he has already advertised in an earlier spot.

Private

Cazalé's grandmother comes from Algeria and was baptized a Roman Catholic himself. In addition to French, he speaks a little Arabic and fluent Spanish. His name means "small garden" in the Béarnais dialect of the region where he was born. He is a great admirer of the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat .

In 2009, Cazalé became the father of a boy.

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SURNAME Cazalé, Nicolas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film and television actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Pau