# Grégory Fitoussi

Grégory Fitoussi (born 13 August 1976) is a French actor best known for appearing in television series such as Spiral, Spin and Mr Selfridge.

## Personal life

He was born in Paris to Pied-Noir Sephardi Jewish parents. His parents opened a clothing store in Paris managed by his mother, while his father designed the displays. He appears alongside his brother, Mikaël Fitoussi, in the short film Alliés Nés, roughly based on his own family. He was in a relationship for several years with the actress Anne Caillon. He lives in Saint-Mandé, a high-end commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris.

## Career

Fitoussi appeared in the TF1 television soap Sous le soleil in which he played Benjamin, the husband of the character Laure Olivier. He also appeared in L'État de Grace, a television series broadcast on France 2, in which he played the gynaecologist of Grace, the president of France. Later, he played Maître Vidal, the lawyer of Marie Besnard (played by Muriel Robin), in the French docudrama The Poisoner (Marie Besnard, l'empoisonneuse).
Fitoussi had one of the lead roles in seasons 1-5 of French police procedural drama Engrenages, known in English as Spiral, where he played prosecutor/advocate Pierre Clément alongside Caroline Proust as Chief Inspector Laure Berthaud.
In 2012 and 2014, Fitoussi played spin doctor Ludovic Desmeuze in France 2's politics thriller Les Hommes de l'ombre (Spin in English-speaking countries). The series has won acclaim in the United Kingdom where it began to air in 2016 as part of the Walter Presents service on Channel 4's All 4 platform. Its third and final season aired in 2016 in France and in 2017 in the UK. It was also broadcast internationally on the TV5Monde channels.
Between 2013 and 2015, Fitoussi appeared as Henri Leclair in 24 episodes of ITV's Mr Selfridge.
In 2015, he appeared as Luc Girard in the NBC drama series American Odyssey.
In 2018, it was announced that he would join the cast of season 2 Sky Atlantic's Riviera

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 1999 | Un café... l'addition | Le charmeur | Félicie Dutertre & François Rabes | Short |
| 2002 | Double Flair | Thomas Ceyssac | Denis Malleval | TV film |
| 2003 | Les Baigneuses | Nico | Viviane Candas | English title: "The Bathers" |
| 2004 | Doo Wop | Vendeur des puces | David Lanzmann | |
| 2004 | Cinq de coeur | Jérémy Bertrand | Jérôme Cornuau | TV film |
| 2005 | Colomba | Orso | Laurent Jaoui | TV film |
| 2005 | Vache-qui-rit | Lui | Philippe Lioret | Short |
| 2005 | Confession d'un menteur | Vincent | Didier Grousset | TV film |
| 2005 | Convivium | Tanguy | Michael Nakache | Short |
| 2006 | Marie Besnard, l'empoisonneuse | Maître Vidal | Christian Faure | TV film, English title: "The Poisoner" |
| 2007 | Opération Turquoise | L'adjudant Philippart | Alain Tasma | TV film |
| 2008 | Le Nouveau Monde | Hugo | Étienne Dhaene | TV film |
| 2008 | Adrien | Olivier | Pascale Bailly | TV film |
| 2009 | G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra | Baron de Cobray | Stephen Sommers | |
| 2009 | Cartouche, le brigand magnifique | La Reynie | Henri Helman | TV film |
| 2010 | Quand vient la peur... | Mathias | Élisabeth Rappeneau | TV film |
| 2010 | Le livre de Marc | Antonin | Claude Farge | |
| 2011 | La conquête | Laurent Solly | Xavier Durringer | English title: "The Conquest" |
| 2011 | Mystère au Moulin-Rouge | Julien Anselme | Stéphane Kappes | TV film |
| 2011 | L'Amour fraternel | Marc | Gérard Vergez | TV film |
| 2011 | Un été brûlant | Lepartenare du film d'époque | Philippe Garrel | English title: "A Burning Hot Summer" |
| 2011 | Louis XI, le pouvoir fracassé | Clément de Saudre | Henri Helman | TV film |
| 2011 | Picture Paris | Waiter | Brad Hall | Short |
| 2011 | L'amère nature | Lui | Hugues Espinasse | Short |
| 2012 | En apparence | Bruno | Benoît d'Aubert | TV film |
| 2012 | Une nuit | Paul Gorsky | Philippe Lefebvre | English title: "Paris by Night" |
| 2012 | Mince alors! | Gaspard | Charlotte de Turckheim | English title: "Big Is Beautiful" |
| 2012 | Edwige | Seb | Mounia Meddour | Short |
| 2013 | World War Z | C130 Pilot | Marc Forster | |
| 2014 | Jamais le premier soir | Ange | Mélissa Drigeard | English title: "Never on the First Night" |
| 2014 | Pas d'inquiétude | Marc | Thierry Binisti | TV film |
| 2015 | Qui c'est les plus forts? | Paul | Charlotte de Turckheim | English title: "You'll Never Walk Alone" |
| 2017 | Hostile | Jack | Mathieu Turi | |
| 2017 | Daddy Cool | Renaud | Maxime Govare | |
| 2018 | L'école est finie | Raphaël | Anne Depétrini | |
| 2019 | Entangled | Max | Milena Lurie | |
| 2021 | Journaliste(s) | Kerner | Caroline Proust & Etienne Saldés | Short |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1998-2001 | Sous le soleil | Benjamin | Series regular |
| 2001 | Méditerranée | Pierre Lantosque | Mini-series |
| 2002 | Vertiges | Lieutenant Laurent | Episode: "Accords et à Cris" |
| 2003 | Joséphine, ange gardien | Manu | Episode: "Le stagiaire" |
| 2003 | Vertiges | Marco Segal | Episode: "La femme de l'ombre" |
| 2004 | La Crim' | Bastien Calais | Episode: "Ivresse mortelle" |
| 2004 | Ariane Ferry | Fabrice Adler | Episode: "La monitrice" |
| 2004 | Navarro | Serge Lheureux | Episode: "Les bourreaux de l'ombre" |
| 2005-2017 | Engrenages | Pierre Clément | Series regular, English title: "Spiral" |
| 2006 | L'État de Grace | Docteur Dan Odelman | Mini-series |
| 2007 | Chat bleu, chat noir | Skibel | Mini-series, English title: "Cabaret" |
| 2008 | Voici venir l'orage... | Itzhak Nadson | Mini-series, English title: "Elena's Destiny, a Russian Saga" |
| 2009 | Revivre | Jacob Azoulay | Mini-series |
| 2011 | Les Saisons meurtrières | Fabrice Berthier | Mini-series |
| 2012-2016 | Les hommes de l'ombre | Ludovic Desmeuze | Series regular, English title: "Spin" |
| 2013-2015 | Mr Selfridge | Henri Leclair | Series regular |
| 2015 | Odyssey | Luc Girard | Series regular |
| 2016 | La Main du mal | Thomas Schaffner | Mini-series |
| 2016 | Accusé | Léo | Episode: "L'histoire de Léo" |
| 2016 | Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands | Razzak | 4 episodes |
| 2018 | Speakerine | Éric Jauffret | Series regular |
| 2018 | Le Bureau des Légendes | Jean-Paul | Recurring role, English title: "The Bureau" |
| 2019 | Riviera | Noah Levy | Series 2 regular |
| 2019 | Beecham House | Benoît Castillon | Series regular |
| 2019 | Le temps est assassin | Paul Idrissi | Series regular |
| 2020 | Mirage | Thomas Grasset | 3 episodes |
| 2020 | La Garçonne | Roman Ketoff | Mini-series |
| 2021 | Peaky Blinders | Jean Claude, seafaring smuggler | Appearance during Season 6 |
| 2022 | The Forest of the Missing (Les Disparus de la Forêt Noire) | Erik Maes, police chief inspector | Mini-series |
| 2024 | Cat's Eyes | Michaël Heinz | TV series |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
| 2017 | A Night of Horror International Film Festival | Best Male Performance | Hostile | Nominated |
| 2017 | Fantastic Planet Film Festival | Best Actor | Hostile | Nominated |
| 2017 | FilmQuest Cthulhu | Best Supporting Actor | Hostile | Nominated |
| 2017 | New York City Horror Film Festival | Best Actor | Hostile | Won |
| 2017 | Nocturna Madrid International Fantastic Film Festival | Official International Competition for Best Acting | Hostile | Nominated |
| 2017 | Other Worlds Austin SciFi Film Festival | Best Feature Actor | Hostile | Nominated |
| 2018 | Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival | Best Actor | Hostile | Nominated |