# Bruno Wolkowitch

Bruno Wolkowitch is a French actor.

## Early life and education

Bruno Wolkowitch (orig. Wołkowicz) is of Polish descent. His father was a tailor turned bookkeeper, and his mother a beautician who became a dermatology assistant. He spent his childhood in Champigny-sur-Marne and then his adolescence in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (Val-de-Marne).
He trained as an actor from 1981 to 1984 at Studio 34 with Claude Mathieu. In 1984, he was awarded a Diploma of Drama at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in Paris. From 1984 to 1987, he studied with Viviane Theophilides, Michel Bouquet, and Jean-Pierre Vincent. At the same time, he entered the Comédie-Française.

## Career

Wolkowitch then appeared in numerous television films and gained notice with the television series Madame le maire in 1997 and PJ (Police judiciaire). In the latter series, Wolkowitch played Captain/Commander Vincent Fournier. He appeared in the first 100 episodes, from 1997 to March 2006 on France 2. Wolkowitch appeared in flashbacks for several seasons more. In addition to his role as a field policeman, a pillar of the police station at PJ Saint-Martin, he continues to play other characters, notably that of Lagardère in a two-part television film of that name, aired in 2003.
He has also performed on stage. In 2006, he starred in Miss Julie, by August Strindberg, with Christine Citti – who played in the first two seasons of PJ – and Émilie Dequenne.

## Personal life

Wolkowitch is also passionate about photography.
In October 2015, on France Inter radio station, the actor acknowledged having spent a very short stay in prison in Israel at the age of seventeen, to protect a friend on a narcotics-related charge. Since then, he has been barred from entering Israel.

## Filmography
### Acting
#### Films

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 1983 | For Those I Loved | Jurek | Robert Enrico | Credited in the credits under the name of "Bruno Volko" |
| 1984 | Hell Train | | Roger Hanin | |
| 1987 | Keep Your Right Up | | Jean-Luc Godard | |
| 1988 | L'enfance de l'art | | Francis Girod | |
| 1989 | Vent de Galerne | | Bernard Favre | |
| 1993 | Mauvais garçon | | Jacques Bral | |
| 1994 | Joan the Maiden | | Jacques Rivette | |
| 1994 | L'Affaire | | Sergio Gobbi | |
| 1995 | L'Uomo proiettile (L'Homme canon) | | Silvano Agosti | |
| 1997 | La Chica | | Bruno Gantillon | |
| 1998 | Terminale | Terrien | Francis Girod | |
| 2004 | Le Grand Rôle | | Steve Suissa | Voice off |
| 2010 | The Tourist | French police commissioner | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | |
| 2012 | Love Is Not Perfect | | Francesca Muci | |
| 2013 | Chez nous c'est trois! | | Claude Duty | |
| 2013 | A Five Star Life | | Maria Sole Tognazzi | |
| 2016 | La folle histoire de Max et Léon | | Jonathan Barré, Palmashow | |
| 2018 | Treat Me Like Fire | Ivo | Marie Monge | |

#### Television

| Years | Title | Role | Creator | Notes |
| 1985 | Madame le maire | | Jean-François Claire | |
| 1987 | Mort aux ténors | Ivan | Serge Moati | In the series Série noire |
| 1987 | Mont royal | | Mario Philip Azzopardi | |
| 1989 | Les Cinq Dernières Minutes | | | "The Cherubim are Not Angels"; directed by Jean-Pierre Desagnat |
| 1989 | Les Enquêtes du commissaire Maigret | | | "The Auberge aux noyés"; directed by Jean-Paul Sassy |
| 1989 | Quand le diable ricane | | Armand Wahnoun | |
| 1989 | Les Jupons de la Révolution: Madame Tallien | | Didier Grousset | |
| 1990 | Le Vagabond des mers | | José Varela | |
| 1990 | Force de frappe: Voie sans issue | | Paolo Barzman | |
| 1992 | Maigret | | | "Maigret and the Judge's House"; directed by Bertrand Van Effenterre |
| 1994 | Deux Millions de dollars dans un fauteuil | | Yves Amoureux | |
| 1994 | Meurtres par procuration | | Claude-Michel Rome | |
| 1994 | Mayday | | Jean-Louis Daniel | |
| 1995 | Passion mortelle | | Claude-Michel Rome | |
| 1996 | Dans un grand vent de fleurs | Guillaume Garlande | Gérard Vergez | |
| 1997 | Pour mon fils | | Michaëla Watteaux | |
| 1997–2005 | PJ | Vincent Fournier | | |
| 1997 | Jamais sans toi | | Daniel Janneau | |
| 1997 | Vérité oblige | Prison director | | "My Daughter... This Unknown"; directed by Claude-Michel Rome |
| 1998 | Famille de cœur | | Gérard Vergez | |
| 1998 | Doppio Segreto | | Marcello Cesena | |
| 1999 | Marie et Tom | | Dominique Baron | |
| 1999 | Mieux vaut tard que jamais | | Luca Manfredi | |
| 2000 | Les Cordier, juge et flic | Marc Singer | | "Portrait with Scalpel" |
| 2000 | Remise de peine | | Alberto Simone | |
| 2001 | Méditerranée | | Henri Helman | |
| 2001 | Le Gave | | Christian Bonnet | |
| 2001 | La Faux | | Jean-Dominique de La Rochefoucauld | |
| 2002 | Garonne | | Claude d'Anna | |
| 2002 | La Parité | | Gérard Vergez | |
| 2002 | Trop plein d'amour | | Steve Suissa | |
| 2003 | Qu'elle est belle la quarantaine! | | Alexis Lecaye | |
| 2003 | Lagardère | Henri de Lagardère / Le Bossu | Henry Helman | |
| 2004 | Le Frangin d'Amérique | | Jacques Fansten | |
| 2005 | Je t'aime à te tuer | | Alain Wermus | |
| 2005 | Retrouver Sara | | Claude d'Anna | |
| 2007 | Rock'n Roll Circus | | Alain Robillard | |
| 2008 | Sagan | Philippe | Diane Kurys | |
| 2008 | Hold-up à l'italienne | | Claude-Michel Rome | |
| 2008 | Grands reporters | | Gilles de Maistre | |
| 2009 | PJ | Vincent Fournier | | |
| 2009–10 | Les Toqués | Monsieur B | | "The Gold Rush", "The Trojan Horse" |
| 2010 | Le Désamour | | Daniel Janneau | |
| 2011 | Coup de chaleur | | Christophe Barraud | |
| 2011 | La République des enfants | Garcin | Jacques Fansten | |
| 2012–16 | Spin | Simon Kapita | Frédéric Tellier, Jean-Marc Brondolo | |
| 2012 | Ragazze sul web | | Marco Pontecorvo | |
| 2013 | Rouge Brésil | | Sylvain Archambault | |
| 2013 | Pourquoi personne me croit? | | Jacques Fansten | |
| 2013 | Cherif | | | "False Pretenses"; directed by Vincent Giovanni |
| 2013 | À corde tendue | | Pierre-Antoine Hiroz | |
| 2015 | Accusé | | | "The Story of Simon"; directed by Didier Bivel |
| 2015 | Un père coupable | | Caroline Huppert | |
| 2015 | Meurtres à Carcassonne | | Julien Despaux | |
| 2015 | Borderline | | Olivier Marchal | |
| 2016 | Mongeville | | | "Living Legend"; directed by René Manzor |
| 2016 | Caïn | | | Season 4, "The Prisoners"; by Christophe Douchand |
| 2017 | Cassandre | | | Episode 5 "Backfire"; by Hervé Renoh |
| 2017 | La Loi de Valérie | | Thierry Binisti | |
| 2020 | Baby | Christophe | | Episode 3x01, 3x02 |

#### Short films

| Year | Title | Director |
| 1988 | Un coin de table | Josiane Maisse |
| 1993 | Qui est-ce qui a éteint la lumière? | Xavier Auradon |
| 1994 | Parlez après le signal sonore | Olivier Jahan |
| 1997 | Amour néanmoins | Frédéric Darie |

### Dubbing

| Year | Title | Director | Role | Actor |
| 1993 | Romeo Is Bleeding | Peter Medak | Jack Grimaldi | Gary Oldman |
| 1995 | The Usual Suspects | Bryan Singer | Michael McManus | Stephen Baldwin |
| 1995 | The Crossing Guard | Sean Penn | John Booth | David Morse |
| 1996 | Sleepers | Barry Levinson | Sean Nokes | Kevin Bacon |

### Directorial works

| Year | Title | Creator | Co-director | Location |
| 1992 | Ordinaire et Disgracié | Claude Mollet | Hervé Pierre | Théâtre de la Ville |

### Music videos

| Year | Song | Artist | Director |
| 1996 | Babe | Viktor Lazlo | Philippe Gautier |

## Theatre

| Year | Title | Creator | Director | Location | Notes |
| | Autopsie | Pascal Cantelle | | | |
| | L'Épreuve | Éric Tallien | | | |
| 1984 | Parking du ciel | Emmanuel Weisz | | Munich | |
| 1985 | The Balcony | Jean Genet | Georges Lavaudant | Comédie-Française | |
| 1986 | Macbeth | William Shakespeare | Jean-Pierre Vincent | Comédie-Française | |
| 1986 | The Tempest | William Shakespeare | Alfredo Arias | Festival d'Avignon Théâtre de la Commune | |
| 1987 | Polyeucte | Pierre Corneille | Jorge Lavelli | Comédie-Française | |
| 1988 | The Changeling | Thomas Middleton, William Rowley | Stuart Seide | Théâtre de Gennevilliers | |
| 1988 | King Lear | William Shakespeare | Jacques Kraemer | Théâtre de Boulogne-Billancourt | |
| 1988 | Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien | Gabriele D'Annunzio, Claude Debussy | Jean-Pierre Vincent, Jean-Paul Chambas | Villa Medici Rome | |
| 1989 | The Moods of Marianne | Alfred de Musset | France Rousselle | Théâtre du Gymnase Marseille | |
| 1993 | Le Mal court | Jacques Audiberti | Pierre Franck | Théâtre de l'Atelier | |
| 1993 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Tennessee Williams | Michel Fagadau | Théâtre Marigny | |
| 2005 | Derniers Remords avant l'oubli | Jean-Luc Lagarce | Jean-Pierre Vincent | CDDB-Théâtre de Lorient, La Criée | As Pierre |
| 2006 | Miss Julie | August Strindberg | Didier Long | Théâtre Marigny | As Jean, the valet |
| 2007 | It's Only the End of the World | Jean-Luc Lagarce | François Berreur | MC2, Nouveau théâtre de Besançon, Maison de la Culture de Bourges, Théâtre de la Cité internationale, Théâtre des Célestins, Théâtre de la Manufacture | Tour |
| 2008 | It's Only the End of the World | Jean-Luc Lagarce | François Berreur | TNBA | Tour |
| 2008 | Equus | Peter Shaffer | Didier Long | Théâtre Marigny | |
| 2010 | Le Donneur de bain | Dorine Hollier | Dan Jemmett | Théâtre Marigny | |
| 2011 | Pluie d’enfer | Keith Huff | Benoît Lavigne | Pépinière Théâtre | |
| 2014 | Le Secret de Poussinette | | Bruno Wolkowitch | Comédie Saint-Michel | |
| 2015 | Danser à Lughnasa | Brian Friel | Didier Long | Théâtre de l'Atelier | |