Philippe Caroit

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Philippe Caroit (2016)

Philippe Caroit (born September 29, 1959 in Paris ) is a French actor .

Life

Training and beginnings

Philippe Caroit was born the fourth of seven children to a Parisian family. His father was a doctor and headed the rheumatology department of a hospital. Caroit, who traveled extensively in his youth and got to know distant countries, was a gifted student and passed his Baccalauréat (Section C, les mathématiques et les sciences physiques ) at the age of almost sixteen . Like his father, he first decided to study medicine , but at the same time took acting lessons at the Conservatory in Montpellier ( conservatoire de Montpellier ).

Parallel to his medical studies, he received his first film roles in artistically demanding cinema productions in French auteur cinema . Directed by Éric Rohmer , he played the friend of François, the hero of the story, in his film The Aviator's Wife or You Can't Think of Nothing (1981). This was followed by a role as a young student in Enigma (1982). The following year he starred in Liberty Belle , directed by Pascal Kané .

In the sixth year of his medical training, which he u. a. graduated from the Hôpital Cochin in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, he decided to give up the medical profession and devote himself entirely to acting. He joined the Théâtre du Soleil of Ariane Mnouchkine , where he received his artistic training.

Cinema and television

He made his TV debut in the TV film Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan (1982) by director Jacques Deray based on a literary model by Honoré de Balzac . In the French TV series Série rose (1986), which presented erotic stories based on literary models and in German-speaking countries under the title “Erotisches zur Nacht. Spicy Tales from France “ran, embodied Caroit, according to his role image at the time, an attractive libertine and gigolo. In the 80s he was in the cinema a. a. seen in La Rumba (1987) by Roger Hanin . He had great success in France as a special agent for the French secret service in the TV series Coplan (1989), with which Caroit also became known in Germany. In the TV mini-series Flammen der Liebe (1995), which Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina set in Rome , he embodied Antonio, the wooer for the favor of Senator's wife Anna ( Carol Alt ). From 1995 to 2001 he played the role of police investigator David Kaan in the French crime series Les Bœuf-carottes, alongside Jean Rochefort as Commissaire Antoine Venturi . From 2008 to 2011 Caroit was seen in another police series, RIS Police scientifique , in which he portrayed the head of a fictional police unit from the 3rd to the 6th season.

Caroit has now worked in over 100 film and television productions. In the Sat1 comedy Die Staatsaffäre (2014) he played the newly elected French President Guy Dupont at the side of Veronica Ferres as German Chancellor. Since 2017, Caroit, alongside Thomas Sarbacher and Carlo Ljubek , in the role of Yves Kléber as representative of the National Police has been part of the permanent, cross-border German-French investigative team in the German crime film series Über die Grenz .

Theater works

In parallel to his film and television work, Caroit also played theater with roles in classical (including La locandiera ) and modern plays. He appeared in productions by Robert Hossein , Maurice Béjart , Jean-Claude Brialy , Anne Bourgeois , Stéphane Hillel and Jean-Luc Moreau . Caroit played mainly on Parisian stages (Théâtre du Rond-Point, Théâtre de la Gaîté-Montparnasse, Théâtre de Paris, Théâtre Tête d'or), but also appeared at the Anjou Festival and toured with individual productions.

Private

Caroit is the father of a daughter who came from his relationship with the French actress and producer Caroline Tresca (* 1959), with whom he was in a relationship until 2008. Caroit, who speaks five languages ​​and also shoots in several languages, lives in Paris. In his free time he devotes himself to figurative painting .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1981: The Aviator's Wife or You Can't Think of Nothing (La femme de l'aviateur)
  • 1982: Les secrets de la princesse de Cadignan (TV movie)
  • 1982: Enigma (Enigma)
  • 1983: Liberty Belle
  • 1986: Série rose: Le libertin de qualité (TV series, one episode)
  • 1987: La Rumba
  • 1989; 1991: Coplan (TV series)
  • 1990: The Success of Her Life (Mademoiselle Ardel) (TV movie)
  • 1991: Beloved Milena (Milena)
  • 1992: Still waters (Les eaux dormantes)
  • 1993: Les grandes marées (TV miniseries)
  • 1995: Flames of Love (TV miniseries)
  • 1995-2001; 2005: Les Bœuf-carottes (TV series)
  • 2001: rampage to the Pacific (TV movie)
  • 2004: Nero - The dark side of power
  • 2005: Trois femmes flics (TV series)
  • 2008–2011: RIS Police scientifique (TV series)
  • 2014: The State Affair (TV movie)
  • 2015: Meurtres à ...: Meurtres à la Rochelle (TV series, one episode)
  • since 2017: Across the border (TV series)
  • 2018–2019: Crimes Parfaits (TV series)

Web links

Commons : Philippe Caroit  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Philippe Caroit . Biography. In: gala.fr. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Philippe Caroit . Biography. Voici.fr. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Philippe Caroit: its startling revelations on the death of his sister . Gossip News of January 16, 2020. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  4. ↑ a b c La biography de Philippe Caroit . ProgramsTV.net. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  5. Jump up ↑ Flames of Love (1-3) . TV Today . Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  6. ↑ "Even kings gave their crowns for love.": AN INTERVIEW WITH PHILIPPE CAROIT . Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  7. ↑ INTERVIEW: PHILIPPE CAROIT . Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  8. ↑ "The State Affair" on Sat 1: Fried Eggs for the Chancellor. TV review. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of September 2, 2014. Retrieved on February 14, 2020.
  9. ↑ As Chancellor, the Ferres freaks out completely . TV review. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of September 2, 2014. Retrieved on February 14, 2020.
  10. ↑ Philippe Caroit is Yves Kléber . Roller profile. Official website Das Erste . Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  11. ↑ Questions to Philippe Caroit . Interview. Official website Das Erste . Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  12. ↑ Philippe Caroit at schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Caroit, Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France