Pascal Greggory

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Pascal Greggory (2010)

Pascal Greggory (born September 8, 1953 in Paris ) is a French actor .

Life

Pascal Charles Greggory comes from a middle-class French Protestant family. His father was a businessman. At the age of 12 he joined the children's and youth choir at the Paris Opera . He completed a two-year acting course at the Cours Périmony in Paris. He was also a visiting student ( auditeur libre ) at the Conservatoire de Paris .

His acting career began with small roles in the theater and in film. Greggory made his screen debut in 1975 in the French feature film Dr. med. Françoise Gailland by Jean-Louis Bertuccelli . 1977 followed a role in the French soft erotic film Madame Claude and their Gazelles by Just Jaeckin . As Frédéric , he embodied Klaus Kinski's sexually inexperienced film son . The encounter with two renowned French film directors shaped his career as an actor in the period that followed. André Téchiné entrusted him with the role of Branwell Brontë , the brother of the Brontë siblings, in his 1979 film The Brontë sisters , where Greggory played alongside famous stars of French cinema such as Isabelle Huppert , Isabelle Adjani and Marie-France Pisier . After this film, Greggory received an invitation from Eric Rohmer to read Heinrich von Kleist's Das Käthchen von Heilbronn , whereupon Rohmer engaged him in 1980 for the role of Friedrich Wetter Graf vom Strahl in his film Catherine de Heilbronn . Greggory then played in other Eric Rohmer films: 1982 in Schöne Hochzeit , 1983 in Pauline am Strand , 1986 in the short film Drink 'Your Coffee and 1993 in Der Baum, der Bürgermeister und die Mediathek .

In 1987 Greggory met actor and director Patrice Chéreau in a restaurant in the Parisian gay district Le Marais . Chéreau not only became Greggory's partner, but also his mentor and sponsor. Numerous joint theater and film works were created. In 1994 Greggory played the Duke of Anjou in Chereau's historical costume drama The Bartholomew Night . Further film projects with Chéreau were 1998 Who Loves Me Takes the Train and in 2005 the climax of the collaboration was the role of the abandoned husband Jean Hervey in Gabrielle - Love of my Life . In 1996 Greggory played the roles of the client in Chéreau's production of the play In the Solitude of Cotton Fields ( Dans la solitude des champs de coton ) by Bernard at the Manufacture des Œillets in Ivry-sur-Seine and at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe in Paris -Marie Koltès .

In 1999 he played the Duke of Alençon in the historical drama Johanna von Orléans by Luc Besson and Saint-Loup in the costume film The Recovered Time by Raúl Ruiz . In 2000, he took on the role of bisexual Alain Bauman in the comedy Man Loves a Tie , directed by Ilan Duran Cohen . In 2004 he was the Beaumagnan in the French adventure film Arsène Lupine - The King Among Thieves by Jean-Paul Salomé . In 2007 he took on the role of impresario Louis Barrier in the drama La vie en rose , a film adaptation of the life of Edith Piaf . In 2008 he played the role of Robert Schumann at the side of Martina Gedeck in the film Beloved Clara by Helma Sanders-Brahms .

Greggory has played theater in addition to his film work since the 1970s. He has appeared in plays by Racine , William Shakespeare , Arthur Schnitzler and Sarah Kane , among others . At the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg in 2005 he took over the speaking role of brother Dominik in the oratorio Johanna at the stake by Arthur Honegger .

Greggory was nominated three times for the César : in 1999 and 2001 for Best Actor for Who Loves Me, Takes the Train! and You love it to be a draw and in 2008 as Best Supporting Actor for La vie en rose .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The film database IMDb gives 1953 as the year of birth. Other sources give 1954 or 1955 as the year of birth.
  2. ↑ Acteur, scénariste français biography at AlloCiné
  3. ↑ Biographie de Pascal Greggory Biography with Evene
  4. ↑ "I am not interested in pure entertainment." Interview with Pascal Greggory on the homepage of Filmzentrale
  5. ↑ Pascal Greggory portrait at Ecran Noir
  6. ↑ Nicole Aubry biography of the director at ADEQUAT Agence Artistique
personal data
SURNAME Greggory, Pascal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris