Xavier Legrand

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Xavier Legrand

Xavier Legrand (born March 28, 1979 in Melun ) is a French actor and director .

Life

Legrand had already acted at the age of ten and had joined a semi-professional theater company when he was twelve. He finally studied acting at the Paris Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique until 2005 , completed an internship under Philippe Grandrieux at the La fémis film school and initially worked as a theater actor. He has appeared in plays directed by Julie Brochen , Christian Benedetti and Alexandre Zeff and has worked at the Théâtre national de Strasbourg and several times under the direction of Christian Schiaretti at the Théâtre National Populaire in Villeurbanne . Occasionally he has appeared as a film and television actor, including 2005 in Philippe Garrel's Troublemaker .

Legrand's directorial debut, the short film Avant que de tout perdre , was released in 2013 . He had worked on the script for three years. The film follows Miriam, who wants to leave her brutal husband with her two children. Avant que de tout perdre won the Grand Prix of the Festival du Court-Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand in 2013 and a César for Best Short Film in 2014 . In 2014 it was also nominated for an Oscar in the Best Short Film category.

In 2017 Legrand completed his feature film debut with After the Judgment . The divorce drama starring Denis Ménochet , Léa Drucker and Thomas Gioria earned him the directing award at the 74th Venice Film Festival .

Filmography (selection)

Unless otherwise stated, as an actor.

  • 2005: Troublemaker (Les amants réguliers)
  • 2006: Vanishing Point (Point de fuite) (short film)
  • 2007: Kaojikara (short film)
  • 2010: Camus (TV)
  • 2010: Les mains libres
  • 2013: Tiger Lily, quatre femmes dans la vie (TV series)
  • 2013: Avant que de tout perdre (short film) - director, screenplay
  • 2017: After the judgment (Jusqu'à la garde) - director, screenplay

Theater appearances (selection)

  • 2006: Ervart, ou les derniers jours de Friedrich Nietzsche by Hervé Blutsch - Théâtre National Populaire de Villeurbanne, director: Christian Schiaretti
  • 2006: Coriolan by William Shakespeare - Théâtre National Populaire de Villeurbanne, directed by Christian Schiaretti
  • 2007: La nuit de Madame Lucienne by Copi - Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, Paris, directed by Irina Solano
  • 2010: Vénus by Suzan-Lori Parks - Théâtre de l'Athénée, Paris, director: Cristèle Alves Meira
  • 2012: Merlin l'enchanteur ou Graal théâtre by Florence Delay and Jacques Roubaud - Théâtre national de Strasbourg, directed by Christian Schiaretti, Julie Brochen

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Xavier Legrand… . formatcourt.com, March 6, 2014.
  2. ↑ Xavier Legrand ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zelig-fr.com archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on zelig-fr.com
  3. ↑ a b Biography of Xavier Legrand ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on theater-studio.com @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theatre-studio.com
  4. ^ Liam Engle: Entretien avec Xavier Legrand . filmdeculte.com, August 31, 2013.
  5. ↑ orf.at: "After the judgment" was awarded to Cesar for best film . Article dated February 23, 2019, accessed February 23, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Legrand, Xavier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Melun , France