# Gilles Lellouche

Gilles Lellouche (French pronunciation:; born 5 July 1972) is a French actor and director. He was nominated twice for a César Award; in 2006 for Most Promising Actor and in 2011 for Best Supporting actor for his performance in Little White Lies (2010).

## Early life

Lellouche was born in Savigny-sur-Orge, France, to a father of Algerian-Jewish descent, and to a mother of Irish Catholic background. His brother Philippe Lellouche is also an actor and director.

## Personal life

From 2002 to 2013, Lellouche was in a relationship with actress Mélanie Doutey, with whom he had a daughter, born on 5 September 2009.
Since 2015, Lellouche has been in a relationship with former model and jewelry designer Alizée Guinochet, with whom he had a son, born in November 2022.
In January 2017, following the backlash over director Roman Polanski being appointed as the president of the 2017 César Awards while being convicted of sexual abuse of a 13-year-old girl and being a fugitive from justice since 1978, Lellouche expressed his support for the director in an interview with Le Parisien, saying; "In France, we make controversies of everything. We die of this in this country. In my opinion, you have to be consistent. Polanski has lived in France for forty years. The facts he was accused of precede this arrival. For all these years, he has been doing films! At that time, it had to be forbidden to live in our territory or to work here. But we welcomed him, we gave him awards, we praise him since he is a big director and he is part of the history of cinema. I am not excusing the facts. But why, today more than yesterday, should there be a scandal? What's going on with us? Have we become Americans? I don't agree with that." [...] "We have many people in France that we have things to criticize and who are still in political, social or economic life. We did not put them in prison, we did not make controversies. Even the victim is tired of this story! To make a scandal only today because he is the president of the Césars, it does not make sense." Polanski later dropped out of presiding over the Césars after the backlash, which included a 61,000-signature petition and calls to boycott the ceremony.

## Filmography
### As actor

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 2001 | My Wife Is an Actress | The policeman | Yvan Attal | |
| 2002 | Whatever You Say | Daniel Bénard | Guillaume Canet | |
| 2003 | Love Me If You Dare | Sergei Nimov Nimovitch | Yann Samuell | |
| 2004 | Narco | The twin skater | Tristan Aurouet & Himself | |
| 2005 | Anthony Zimmer | Müller | Jérôme Salle | |
| 2005 | Love Is in the Air | Ludo | Rémi Bezançon | Nominated - César Award for Most Promising Actor |
| 2006 | Tell No One | Bruno | Guillaume Canet | |
| 2006 | On va s'aimer | François | Ivan Calbérac | |
| 2006 | Le héros de la famille | Jérôme | Thierry Klifa | |
| 2007 | Room of Death | Sylvain | Alfred Lot | |
| 2007 | Le dernier gang | Milan | Ariel Zeitoun | |
| 2007 | Ma place au soleil | Franck | Eric de Montalier | |
| 2007 | Ma vie n'est pas une comédie romantique | Thomas Walkowic | Marc Gibaja | |
| 2008 | Paris | Franky | Cédric Klapisch | |
| 2008 | Mesrine | Paul | Jean-François Richet | |
| 2008 | The Easy Way | Vincent Goumard | Jean-Paul Rouve | |
| 2008 | The First Day of the Rest of Your Life | The white rasta | Rémi Bezançon | |
| 2009 | Lascars | Zoran | Emmanuel Klotz & Albert Pereira-Lazaro | |
| 2010 | Little White Lies | Éric | Guillaume Canet | Nominated - César Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 2010 | Point Blank | Samuel Pierret | Fred Cavayé | |
| 2010 | The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec | Inspector Albert Caponi | Luc Besson | |
| 2010 | Krach | Erwan Kermor | Fabrice Genestal | |
| 2010 | Une petite zone de turbulences | Philippe Faure | Alfred Lot | |
| 2011 | My Piece of the Pie | Steve Delarue | Cédric Klapisch | |
| 2011 | Mineurs 27 | Oscar Herrera | Tristan Aurouet | |
| 2011 | Platane | Himself | Éric Judor & Denis Imbert | TV series (2 episodes) |
| 2012 | Thérèse Desqueyroux | Bernard Desqueyroux | Claude Miller | Nominated - Globes de Cristal Award for Best Actor |
| 2012 | The Players | Various | Michel Hazanavicius, Jean Dujardin, ... | |
| 2012 | JC comme Jésus Christ | Himself | Jonathan Zaccaï | |
| 2012 | Nos plus belles vacances | Narrator | Philippe Lellouche | |
| 2012 | Quand je serai petit | Young Maurice | Jean-Paul Rouve | |
| 2013 | The Informant | Marc Duval | Julien Leclercq | |
| 2013 | The Ultimate Accessory | Cyrille Cohen | Valérie Lemercier | |
| 2014 | The Connection | Gaëtan 'Tany' Zampa | Cédric Jimenez | |
| 2014 | Mea Culpa | Franck Vasseur | Fred Cavayé | |
| 2015 | Families | Grégoire Piaggi | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | |
| 2015 | The Clearstream Affair | Denis Robert | Vincent Garenq | |
| 2015 | Les gorilles | Petrovitch | Tristan Aurouet | |
| 2015 | Call My Agent ! | Himself | Cédric Klapisch | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2016 | Sky | Richard | Fabienne Berthaud | |
| 2016 | The Jews | Norbert | Yvan Attal | |
| 2017 | C'est la vie! | James | Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache | Nominated - César Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 2017 | The Man with the Iron Heart | Václav Morávek | Cédric Jimenez | |
| 2017 | Plonger | César | Mélanie Laurent | |
| 2017 | Rock'n Roll | Himself | Guillaume Canet | |
| 2017 | Sous le même toit | Yvan Hazan | Dominique Farrugia | |
| 2018 | In Safe Hands | Jean | Jeanne Herry | Nominated - César Award for Best Actor |
| 2018 | Paris Pigalle | Serge / Georges | Cédric Anger | |
| 2019 | Jusqu'ici tout va bien | Fred Bartel | Mohamed Hamidi | |
| 2019 | Nous finirons ensemble | Éric | Guillaume Canet | |
| 2020 | BAC Nord | Grégory Cerva | Cédric Jimenez | |
| 2022 | Kompromat | Mathieu | Jérôme Salle | |
| 2022 | Smoking Causes Coughing | Benzène | Quentin Dupieux | |
| 2023 | Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom | Obelix | Guillaume Canet | |
| 2023 | All Your Faces | Grégoire | Jeanne Herry | |
| 2023 | Daaaaaalí! | Salvador Dalí | Quentin Dupieux | |

### As director

| Year | Title | Notes |
| 1996 | 2 minutes 36 de bonheur | Short film |
| 2002 | Pourkoi... passkeu | Short film |
| 2004 | Narco | (codirected with Tristan Aurouet) |
| 2012 | The Players | Segment: "'Las Vegas" |
| 2018 | Sink or Swim | Nominated - César Award for Best Film Nominated - César Award for Best Director Nominated - César Award for Best Original Screenplay |
| 2024 | Beating Hearts | It was featured in the Limelight section of the 54th International Film Festival Rotterdam. |