# Charles Berling

Charles Berling (born 30 April 1958) is a French actor, director and screenwriter.

## Life and career

Charles Berling, son of a navy doctor, is also the nephew of the literary critic Raymond Picard. His mother, Nadia, "only daughter of (French) settlers in Morocco" was born in Meknes (Morocco); she died in 2004.
When he was two years old he left Paris for Brest, then Toulon, then, at seven, Tahiti.
He studied acting at the Belgian school INSAS, in Brussels. He is the father of the actor Émile Berling.

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 1982 | Meurtres à domicile | Inspector Focard | Marc Lobet | |
| 1988 | Le crépuscule des loups | The SS soldier | Jean Chapot | TV movie |
| 1988 | Les nouveaux chevaliers du ciel | Jacquier | Patrick Jamain | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1989 | Laura und Luis | | Frank Strecker | TV Mini-Series |
| 1989 | Condorcet | | Michel Soutter | TV Mini-Series |
| 1990 | Sniper | Macet | Klaus Biedermann | TV movie |
| 1990 | Monstre aimé | | Frédéric Compain | TV movie Also Writer |
| 1992 | Salt on Our Skin | Roger | Andrew Birkin | |
| 1992 | La femme à l'ombre | The lawyer | Thierry Chabert | TV movie |
| 1993 | Just Friends | André | Marc-Henri Wajnberg | |
| 1993 | Louis, the Child King | | Roger Planchon | |
| 1993 | Couples et amants | Jean | John Lvoff | |
| 1994 | Coming to Terms with the Dead | François | Pascale Ferran | Nominated - César Award for Most Promising Actor |
| 1994 | Dernier stade | Frédéric Noilla | Christian Zerbib | |
| 1994 | Consentement mutuel | Laurent | Bernard Stora | |
| 1994 | Un dimanche à Paris | Romaric | Hervé Duhamel | |
| 1995 | Nelly and Mr. Arnaud | Jerôme | Claude Sautet | |
| 1995 | Pullman paradis | Lucien Génin | Michèle Rosier | |
| 1995 | Le fabuleux destin de Madame Petlet | | Camille de Casabianca | |
| 1995 | L'âge des possibles | Man at phone | Pascale Ferran | TV movie |
| 1995 | La grande collection | Jules | Jeanne Labrune | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1996 | Ridicule | Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy | Patrice Leconte | Lumières Award for Best Actor Nominated - César Award for Best Actor |
| 1996 | Love, etc. | Pierre | Marion Vernoux | |
| 1997 | Dry Cleaning | Jean-Marie Kunstler | Anne Fontaine | Nominated - César Award for Best Actor |
| 1997 | Les Palmes de M. Schutz | Pierre Curie | Claude Pinoteau | |
| 1997 | Obsession | Pierre Moulin | Peter Sehr | |
| 1998 | L'Ennui | Martin | Cédric Kahn | Nominated - César Award for Best Actor |
| 1998 | Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train | Jean-Marie | Patrice Chéreau | Étoiles d'Or - Best Actor |
| 1998 | L'inconnu de Strasbourg | Jean-Paul | Valeria Sarmiento | |
| 1998 | La cloche | | Charles Berling | Short Also Director & Writer |
| 1998 | Un dimanche matin à Marseille | Renaud | Mario Fanfani | Short |
| 1998 | Une femme à suivre | Eddy | Patrick Dewolf | TV movie |
| 1999 | Un pont entre deux rives | Matthias | Frédéric Auburtin & Gérard Depardieu | |
| 1999 | Fait d'hiver | Louis Riquier | Robert Enrico | |
| 2000 | Sentimental Destinies | Jean Barnery | Olivier Assayas | Nominated - César Award for Best Actor |
| 2000 | A Question of Taste | René Rousset | Bernard Rapp | |
| 2000 | Stardom | Philippe Gascon | Denys Arcand | |
| 2000 | Crime Scenes | Fabian | Frédéric Schoendoerffer | |
| 2000 | Comedy of Innocence | Serge | Raúl Ruiz | |
| 2001 | Savage Souls | Reveillard | Raúl Ruiz | |
| 2001 | How I Killed My Father | Jean-Luc | Anne Fontaine | |
| 2001 | 15 August | Vincent | Patrick Alessandrin | |
| 2001 | Un jeu d'enfants | Jacques Fauvel | Laurent Tuel | |
| 2001 | Fils de zup | Inspector Boyer | Gilles Romera | |
| 2002 | Demonlover | Hervé Le Millinec | Olivier Assayas | |
| 2002 | Cravate club | Bernard | Frédéric Jardin | |
| 2002 | Hypnotized and Hysterical | Arnaud | Claude Duty | |
| 2002 | Jean Moulin | Jean Moulin | Yves Boisset | TV movie |
| 2003 | Père et fils | David | Michel Boujenah | |
| 2003 | I'm Staying! | Antoine | Diane Kurys | |
| 2003 | Le soleil assassiné | Jean Senac | Abdelkrim Bahloul | |
| 2004 | Secret Agents | Eugène | Frédéric Schoendoerffer | |
| 2005 | I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed | Georges Figon | Serge Le Péron & Saïd Smihi | |
| 2005 | The Art of Breaking Up [fr] | Edouard de Bois d'Enghien | Michel Deville | |
| 2005 | Grabuge ! | Maurice | Jean-Pierre Mocky | |
| 2005 | La maison de Nina | Maurice Gutman | Richard Dembo | |
| 2005 | Dalida | Lucien Morisse | Joyce Buñuel | TV movie |
| 2005 | Permis d'aimer | Jean | Rachida Krim | TV movie |
| 2005 | Inséparables | Antoine | Élisabeth Rappeneau | TV series (3 episodes) |
| 2006 | The Man of My Life | Hugo | Zabou Breitman | |
| 2006 | Je pense à vous | Worms | Pascal Bonitzer | |
| 2006 | Marie-Antoinette | The voice | Francis Leclerc & Yves Simoneau | TV movie |
| 2007 | Les murs porteurs | Simon Rosenfeld | Cyril Gelblat | |
| 2007 | Notable donc coupable | Fabien Borda | Dominique Baron & Francis Girod | TV movie |
| 2008 | Summer Hours | Frédéric Marly | Olivier Assayas (3) | |
| 2008 | Quiet Chaos | Boesson | Antonello Grimaldi | |
| 2008 | Par suite d'un arrêt de travail... | Vincent Disse | Frédéric Andréi | |
| 2008 | L'abolition | Robert Badinter | Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe | TV Mini-Series |
| 2008 | Myster Mocky présente | Brad | Jean-Pierre Mocky | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2009 | Before Sundown | The soldier | Toby Morris | Short |
| 2010 | Insoupçonnable | Henri Schaeffer | Gabriel Le Bomin | |
| 2010 | Krach | Georges | Fabrice Genestal | |
| 2011 | Propriété interdite | Benoît | Hélène Angel | |
| 2011 | Beirut Hotel | Mathieu | Danielle Arbid | TV movie |
| 2012 | What's in a Name ? | Pierre | Alexandre de La Patellière & Matthieu Delaporte | |
| 2012 | Comme un homme | Pierre Verdier | Safy Nebbou | |
| 2012 | Nos retrouvailles | Philippe Cabrera | Josée Dayan | TV movie |
| 2012 | Le reste du monde | The lawyer | Damien Odoul | TV movie |
| 2013 | It Boy | Luc Apfel | David Moreau | |
| 2014 | The Clearstream Affair | Renaud Van Ruymbeke | Vincent Garenq | |
| 2015 | On voulait tout casser | Bilou | Philippe Guillard | |
| 2015 | Une nuit au Grévin | Narrator | Patrice Leconte | TV movie |
| 2015 | Tu es mon fils | Paul | Didier Le Pêcheur | TV movie |
| 2016 | Elle | Richard | Paul Verhoeven | |
| 2016 | Le coeur en braille | | Michel Boujenah | |
| 2016 | Le premier coup | The man | Caroline Proust & Etienne Saldés | Short |
| 2016 | Trepalium | Paris | Vincent Lannoo | TV Mini-Series |
| 2016 | Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge | | | |
| 2017 | The Frozen Dead | Martin Servaz | Laurent Herbiet | TV series |
| 2017 | Capitaine Marleau | Carlos Dos Santos | Josée Dayan | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2017 | Reinventing Marvin | | | |
| 2019 | Who You Think I Am | Gilles | Safy Nebbou | |

## Theater

| Year | Title | Author | Director | Notes |
| 1981 | The Dybbuk | S. Ansky | Moshe Leiser | |
| 1981 | Ça | Sabra Ben Arfa & Charles Berling | Marie-Pierre Meinzel | |
| 1982 | Passage Hagard | Compagnie des Mirabelles | Compagnie des Mirabelles | |
| 1983 | Dernières Nouvelles de la peste | Bernard Chartreux | Jean-Pierre Vincent | |
| 1984 | The Homecoming | Harold Pinter | Stuart Seide | |
| 1984 | Entre chiens et loups | Christoph Hein | Bernard Sobel | |
| 1984 | Les Orphelins | Jean-Luc Lagarce | Christiane Cohendy | |
| 1985 | The School for Wives | Molière | Bernard Sobel (2) | |
| 1986 | What Remains of a Rembrandt Torn into Four Equal Pieces and Flushed Down the Toilet | Jean Genet | Jean-Michel Rabeux | |
| 1986 | Der Park | Botho Strauß | Claude Régy | |
| 1986 | Les Voisins | Michel Vinaver | Alain Françon | |
| 1986 | Succubations d’Incubes | A.P.A. | Charles Berling | |
| 1988 | Le Public | Federico García Lorca | Jorge Lavelli | |
| 1988 | The Green Cockatoo | Arthur Schnitzler | Michel Didym | |
| 1988-89 | Dear Monster | Javier Tomeo | Jacques Nichet | |
| 1990 | The Mother and the Whore | Jean Eustache | Jean-Louis Martinelli | |
| 1990 | Conversations d'idiots | Dominique Ducos | Walter Le Moli | |
| 1991 | Une sale histoire | Jean Eustache & Jean-Noël Picq | Jean-Louis Martinelli (2) | |
| 1992 | The Church | Louis-Ferdinand Céline | Jean-Louis Martinelli (3) | |
| 1993 | With My Own Hands | Pascal Rambert | Pascal Rambert | |
| 1993 | Le Chasseur de lions | Javier Tomeo | Jean-Jacques Préau | |
| 1993 | Le Bavard | Louis-René des Forêts | Michel Dumoulin | |
| 1993-94 | Merchants of Glory | Marcel Pagnol & Paul Nivoix | Jean-Louis Martinelli (4) | |
| 1995 | In a Year of 13 Moons | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Jean-Louis Martinelli (5) | |
| 1995-96 | Roberto Zucco | Bernard-Marie Koltès | Jean-Louis Martinelli (6) | |
| 1996 | La Cour des comédiens | Antoine Vitez | Georges Lavaudant | |
| 1996 | Ordure (Dreck) | Robert Schneider | Charles Berling (2) | |
| 1997 | L'Histoire du soldat | Igor Stravinsky | Emmanuel Plasson | |
| 1998 | Oedipus the King | Sophocles | Jean-Louis Martinelli (7) | |
| 2001 | Cravate club | Fabrice Roger-Lacan | Isabelle Nanty | |
| 2002 | Voyage en Afrique | Jacques Jouet | Jean-Louis Martinelli (8) | |
| 2004 | Hamlet | William Shakespeare | Moshe Leiser & Patrice Caurier (2) | |
| 2005 | Pour ceux qui restent | Pascal Elbé | Charles Berling (3) | |
| 2006-07 | Caligula | Albert Camus | Charles Berling (4) | |
| 2007 | L'Histoire du soldat | Igor Stravinsky | Michael Lonsdale | |
| 2008-09 | Endgame | Samuel Beckett | Charles Berling (5) | |
| 2009 | The Walk | Bernard-Marie Koltès | Michel Didym (2) | |
| 2010 | L'Infâme | Roger Planchon | Jacques Rosner | |
| 2010 | Le Donneur de bain | Dorine Hollier | Dan Jemmett | |
| 2011 | Ithaka | Botho Strauß | Jean-Louis Martinelli (9) | |
| 2012-13 | Gould et Menuhin | Christiane Cohendy | Charles Berling (6) | |
| 2013-14 | Address Unknown | Kressmann Taylor | Delphine de Malherbe | |
| 2014 | Dreck | Robert Schneider | Charles Berling (7) | |
| 2015 | A View from the Bridge | Arthur Miller | Ivo van Hove | Pending - Molière Award for Best Actor |

## Narrator

* March of the Penguins

## Notes and sources

* ↑ Françoise Dargent, "Charles Berling : les secrets de ma mère", Le Figaro, 11 octobre 2011
* ↑ Marion Vignal, "Charles Berling: "Rester insolent, c'est vital"", L'Express, 17 septembre 2011