Vincent Perez

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Vincent Perez at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival

Vincent Perez (born June 10, 1962 in Lausanne ) is a Swiss actor , director , screenwriter and film producer .

biography

childhood and education

Vincent Perez was born in 1962 (some sources give 1964 or 1965 as the year of birth) as the second youngest of three children in Lausanne and grew up there with his sister Estrella and his brother Carlos. Perez's Spanish father had emigrated to Switzerland because of the better professional prospects, where he worked in the import / export business. His mother is German. Perez, who has Swiss and Spanish citizenship, was already characterized in his childhood by a lot of imagination, which he lived out in painting and writing short stories. His favorite pictures include u. a. the portrait of Jean Genet ( 1956 ) by the Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti . After watching a Chaplin film at the age of seven, Perez idolized the world-famous British silent film star and soon became interested in screenplay writing and film production. At school he appeared more and more in performances in which he played the main role and directed at the same time. Nevertheless, a career as a painter, sculptor or photographer was the main focus for the versatile boy.

Perez first attended a photography school, at the same time apprenticed to a photographer and also took art lessons. However, the solitary and lonely life of a freelance artist put him off and he returned to acting. Although his father advised him to study business administration , Perez decided to train at the Conservatory of Drama in Geneva . With the support of his mother, he moved to the renowned Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique in Paris for two years at the age of 18 , before completing his training in 1986 at the experimental drama school of the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre under the well-known theater director Patrice Chéreau . Chéreau, often named as the discoverer of Vincent Perez, became aware of the charismatic actor. The director cast his protégé u. a. in plays such as William Shakespeare's Hamlet and in Penthesilea by Heinrich von Kleist . Other theater engagements also included appearances at the Avignon Theater Festival .

Film career

Perez at the César Awards, 1991

While still studying acting, he made his first appearances in French TV and film productions . Perez made his TV debut in 1985 in Dominique Othenin-Girard's thriller Mask of Madness . A year later, the actor who celebrated fluent French , Spanish , German and Italian speaking, his feature film debut with a supporting role in Jean-Pierre Limosin drama night patrol . Under Patrice Chéreau he acted in 1987 in the Hôtel de France , a TV adaptation of a play by Anton Chekhov , before Jacqueline Bisset became his film partner in Nadine Trintignant's Das Jadehaus . After the role of Laertes in a TV adaptation of Hamlet, he collaborated with the French director Jean-Paul Rappeneau in 1990 , with whom he made his breakthrough in the film business. In Rappeneau's Cyrano von Bergerac , a film adaptation of the play of the same name by Edmond Rostand , Perez played Christian de Neuvillette , a stately cadet who serves in the troupe of the title character (played by Gérard Depardieu ) and who falls madly in love with the beautiful Roxane . However, since Christian lacks any poetic streak, he turns to Cyrano , the fencing master and freedom-loving poet, who, disfigured by a big nose, is also secretly looking for Roxane's proximity. Rappeneau's film, the dialogues of which are presented entirely in hexameters , was acclaimed by international critics when it was released. a. awarded the French César film prize and an Oscar . Vincent Perez himself was nominated for a César in 1991 as best young actor.

After this great success, Perez played alongside Emmanuelle Béart in the Italian period film Reise des Capitan Fracassa (1990). He received the prestigious Jean Gabin Prize for the leading role in Claude Pinoteau's war drama La Neige et le feu (1991) , before receiving the leading male role in Régis Wargnier's Indochine the following year . In the drama, he played the French soldiers Jean-Baptiste , who, in Indochina stationed on an affair with the great land owner Eliane (played by Catherine Deneuve ) admits to later accompanied by their Asian adoptive daughter Camille desertion to commit. The role in the Oscar- winning work established Perez's reputation as a male sex symbol in French cinema. He repeated the role of the romantic but tragically ending hero in 1994 at the side of Isabelle Adjani in Patrice Chéreau's acclaimed historical epic The Bartholomew Night .

In 1995 Perez started his international film career alongside John Malkovich , Fanny Ardant , Sophie Marceau and Marcello Mastroianni in the four-part episode film Beyond the Clouds by Wim Wenders and Michelangelo Antonioni . Here he plays the unhappy Niccolò in the last segment , who falls in love with a young woman played by Irène Jacob , who joins a convention the next day . This was followed in 1996 by the Hollywood production The Crow , in which he played the title role of the late Brandon Lee , and a year later, the geek drama Amy Foster - In the Sea of ​​Emotions , in which Rachel Weisz , Ian McKellen and Kathy Bates were among his film partners. The international productions were not very successful and Perez returned to France, where he appeared in works as diverse as the coat-and-sword film Duell der Degen and as a transsexual in Patrice Chereau's drama Who Loves Me Takes the Train . He received critical acclaim for these roles and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for César for two consecutive years . This was followed by French productions such as Gabriel Aghion's historical film Liebeslust und Freiheit , in which he freely gave the enlightener Denis Diderot , as well as international productions such as the epic I dreamed of Africa with Kim Basinger and the vampire drama Queen of the Damned based on a bestseller by Anne Rice . A high point in his career was marked by the lead role in Gérard Krawczyk's adventure film Fanfan der Hussar in 2003, which opened the Cannes Film Festival that same year . Here, Perez played alongside Penélope Cruz the eponymous historical title hero, whose story is known to every child in France. Most recently, Perez played the leading roles with Parker Posey in the horror film Frankenstein on the hunt for its creator in 2004 and Marc Steiner in the TV mini-series Le Juge in 2005 . Since 2007 he has played the leading role in the series Law & Order Paris . In 2009 he was also seen in the German film Die Jahrhundertwelle and in 2010 in the US-based international production Inhale . In addition, he recently played several leading roles in France, Spain and Italy for television and cinema.

Career as a director

In addition to his career as a film actor, Perez has also sporadically worked as a director. On the Indochine film set , he worked with director Régis Wargnier on the script for L'Échange . The short film, in which the Indochine actors Dominique Blanc and Andrzej Seweryn can be seen, was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival and earned Perez the admiration of Roman Polański . Polański asked him several times to direct a feature film, but Perez wanted to continue to focus on his acting career.

It was not until 1999 that his second short film, Rien à dire , was made, in which he starred a. a. occupied with Valeria Bruni Tedeschi . Rien à dire was able to build on the success of the first work and was nominated again for the Palme d'Or in Cannes. After his contribution Here, tu m'as dit demain in the French episodic film drug scenes (2000), in which he also played the lead role, followed his first feature film Peau d'ange - Angels do not cry (2002), produced by Luc Besson and was screened at the Montreal World Film Festival . The thriller In Your Skin, with David Duchovny and Lili Taylor in the lead roles, was completed in 2007. It is about a wife and mother who is reborn in her daughter's body.

In 2015, Perez and Alone completed a film adaptation of the novel Everyone dies for himself by Hans Fallada in Berlin . In the drama, Brendan Gleeson and Emma Thompson can be seen as a Berlin couple who, after the death of their only son in the war, joined the resistance against National Socialism by handing out leaflets . Although the film received an invitation to compete at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival in 2016 , it received no distinction and was received rather negatively by German and international critics.

Private life

Perez, who u. a. was in a relationship with Jacqueline Bisset and the Italian model Carla Bruni , has been married to the Senegalese actress and screenwriter Karine Silla since 1998 . He cast Silla, who also works as a model, a. a. in his short film Rien à dire , for which she also wrote the script. Perez has three children with his wife - daughter Iman (* 1999) and twins Pablo and Tess (* 2003); the family lives in France. Perez is close friends with his fellow actors Penélope Cruz and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.

Filmography (selection)

actor

Director

Screenwriter

  • 1992: L'Échange
  • 2002: Peau d'ange - Angels don't cry (Peau d'ange)

producer

  • 2006: The Secret (Si j'étais toi)

Awards

César

  • 1991: Nominated for Best Young Actor for Cyrano by Bergerac
  • 1998: Nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Duel der Degen
  • 1999: Nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Who Loves Me, Takes the Train

Cabourg Romantic Film Festival

  • 1998: Best actor for Duel der Degen

Cannes International Film Festival

  • 1992: nominated in the Best Short Film category for L'Échange
  • 1999: nominated in the Best Short Film category for Rien à dire

Montreal World Film Festival

  • 2002: nominated in the Best Short Film category for Peau d'ange - Angels don't cry

Jean Gabin Prize

  • 1992: Jean Gabin Prize

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ filmstarts.de
  2. ↑ rotten tomatoes
personal data
SURNAME Perez, Vincent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne , Switzerland