# Philippe Torreton

Philippe Torreton (born 13 October 1965) is a French actor.

## Life and career

Born in Rouen, to a teacher mother, and filling station attendant father, Torreton grew up in a suburb of the city. A student at the lycée Val de Seine de Grand-Quevilly, he discovered there a certain liking for the theater that he nurtured, thanks to his teachers, - he often cites one in particular, - M.Désir. A student of CNSAD, he would return there, this time as a teacher, in October 2008.
Torreton entered the Comédie-Française in 1990 as a pensionnaire (salaried actor having no share in the profits) and became a sociétaire (shareholding member of the Comédie-Française) in 1994. He left in 1999 having played many prestigious roles including Scapin, Lorenzaccio, Hamlet, Henry V, Tartuffe.
He played Capitaine Conan in the film of the same name, directed by Bertrand Tavernier, based on a little-known incident from the time of the First World War, and for which he won the César Award for Best Actor 1997. And, a politically committed actor, he played the role of the principal of a primary school confronted with social problems in Ça commence aujourd'hui, again directed by Tavernier, in 1998.
He was elected in the Municipal council of the 9th arrondissement of Paris.
On 10 April 2020, during the coronavirus lockdown, Torreton was one of a handful of people to take part in a Good Friday service led by Michel Aupetit, Archbishop of Paris, in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, still being rebuilt after the fire a year earlier. All wore protective clothing. During the service, Torreton read Francis Jammes' "Je vous salue, Marie".

## Selected filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 1991 | La neige et le feu | | Claude Pinoteau | |
| 1992 | L.627 | Antoine | Bertrand Tavernier | |
| 1993 | Une nouvelle vie | Fred | Olivier Assayas | |
| 1994 | Oublie-moi | Fabrice | Noémie Lvovsky | |
| 1994 | L'ange noir | Christophe | Jean-Claude Brisseau | |
| 1994 | Le petit qui attend le facteur | | Anne-Marie Etienne | |
| 1995 | The Bait | Chief cop | Bertrand Tavernier | |
| 1996 | Le bel été 1914 | Ernest Pailleron | Christian de Chalonge | |
| 1996 | Capitaine Conan | Capitaine Conan | Bertrand Tavernier | |
| 1996 | La serva amorosa | Arlequin | Jean Douchet | |
| 1999 | It All Starts Today | Daniel Lefebvre | Bertrand Tavernier | |
| 1999 | Tôt ou tard | Éric | Anne-Marie Etienne | |
| 2001 | Félix et Lola | Félix | Patrice Leconte | |
| 2001 | Vertiges de l'amour | Vincent | Laurent Chouchan | |
| 2003 | Monsieur N. | Napoleon | Antoine De Caunes | |
| 2003 | Corps à corps | Marco Tisserand | François Hanss | |
| 2004 | The Light | Yvon Le Guen | Philippe Lioret | |
| 2005 | Sky Fighters | Bertrand | Gérard Pirès | |
| 2005 | Les Rois maudits | Robert d'Artois | Josée Dayan | TV Mini-Series |
| 2006 | Le Grand Meaulnes | M. Seurel | Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe | |
| 2007 | Jean de la Fontaine, le défi | Colbert | Daniel Vigne | |
| 2007 | Ulzhan | Charles | Volker Schlöndorff | |
| 2009 | District 13: Ultimatum | The President | Patrick Alessandrin | |
| 2011 | Guilty | Alain Marécaux | Vincent Garenq | |
| 2011 | The Art of Love | Narrator | Emmanuel Mouret | |
| 2011 | Rebellion | Christian Prouteau | Mathieu Kassovitz | |
| 2013 | Mood Indigo | Jean-Sol Partre | Michel Gondry | |
| 2013 | La Pièce manquante | André Mouton | Nicolas Birkenstock | |
| 2016 | Les Enfants de la chance | Docteur Daviel | Malik Chibane | |

## Decorations

* Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters (2016)