# Aurélien Recoing

Aurélien Recoing (born 5 May 1958) is a French actor and stage director.

## Personal life

Aurélien Recoing is the son of Alain Recoing [fr] (puppeteer), and the brother of Éloi Recoing [fr] (director and translator), Blaise Recoing (actor and musician), and David Recoing (pianist, composer).
Born in Paris on May 5, 1958, Aurélien Recoing began training to be an actor in 1974 at Cours Florent, and studied at Quartier d'Ivry. In 1977, the actor-in-training, who spoke fluent English and a little Russian, joined the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in Paris, where he studied under Jean-Pierre Miquel and Antoine Vitez. He has appeared in more than 30 plays and has directed stage performances of works by Thomas Bernhard, Fernando Pessoa and Paul Claudel. He was awarded the Prix Gérard Philipe [fr] in 1989.
In 1980, Aurélien Recoing took his first steps into the world of cinema, in Exploits of a Young Don Juan. Finding art-house cinema appealing to him, he worked with Philippe Garrel on Emergency Kisses (Les baisers de secours), and with Laurence Ferreira Barbosa on Modern Life. The actor rose to fame in 2001 thanks to Laurent Cantet's Time Out (L'Emploi du Temps), in which he plays a man who invents a false life to avoid having to tell his friends and family that he has been fired from his job. As he became more and more in demand, he alternated between blockbusters such as Ruby & Quentin and That Woman and art-house films like L'Ennemi naturel and Orlando Vargas. Lending his talents to a number of unusual projects, in 2006 he portrayed a gamblers in 13 Tzameti, Géla Babluani's black-and-white thriller, and also appeared in Forgive Me (Pardonnez-moi), Maïwenn's home-movie style drama. In the same year, the physically imposing actor found himself transported back to 1914 France in Fragments of Antonin, and then to 1959 Kabylia in Florent Emilio Siri's Intimate Enemies. In 2008, he starred in Franck Llopis [fr]' Paris Nord-Sud and in La Saison des Orphelins. The following year, he was cast in Gilles Béhat's crime thriller Diamant 13 with Gérard Depardieu, and in Denis Dercourt's Tomorrow at Dawn (Demain dès l'aube).
He has made appearances in The Horde, directed by Yannick Dahan [fr] and Benjamin Rocher [fr], Xavier de Choudens [fr]' Joseph and the Girl with Jacques Dutronc, and Léon Desclozeaux [fr]'s Cargo, the Lost Men in 2010. He appeared in Frédéric Schoendoerffer's Switch, as well as in Olias Barco [fr]'s Kill Me Please, which won the Marc'Aurelio d'Oro for best film at Rome Film Festival in 2010. He also appeared in Abdellatif Kechiche's Blue is the Warmest Colour, which took the Palme d'Or at Cannes. In 2020 he appeared in Adults in the room. An upcoming appearance is in Grand Ciel an Arte Film.
He made his first short film as a director The Rifleman (Un Bon Tireur) which won an Award Winner for Best Drama in 2021. He is developing his first feature film Naked Hands (À Mains Nues) with Sensito Films Productions.

## Theatre

| Year | Title | Author | Director | Notes |
| 1976 | La Ballade de Mister Punch | Eloi Recoing | Antoine Vitez | Théâtre des Quartiers d'Ivry |
| 1977 | Hamlet | William Shakespeare | Daniel Mesguich | Maison de la culture de Grenoble |
| 1978 | Simplex ou la Peau de fou | Hansjörg Schneider | Guy Kagat | Théâtre 71 |
| 1980 | La Malédiction | Aeschylus, Euripides & Sophocles | Jean-Pierre Miquel | Festival d'Avignon |
| 1981 | Faust | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Antoine Vitez (2) | Théâtre national de Chaillot |
| 1981 | Britannicus | Jean Racine | Antoine Vitez (3) | Théâtre national de Chaillot |
| 1981 | Caligula | Albert Camus | Patrick Guinand | Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe |
| 1981 | Tombeau pour cinq cent mille soldats | Pierre Guyotat | Antoine Vitez (4) | Théâtre national de Chaillot |
| 1982 | The Prince of Homburg | Heinrich von Kleist | Patrick Guinand (2) | Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe |
| 1983 | Hamlet | William Shakespeare | Antoine Vitez (5) | Théâtre national de Chaillot |
| 1985 | Hernani | Victor Hugo | Antoine Vitez (6) | Théâtre national de Chaillot |
| 1986 | Nicht Fisch nicht Fleisch | Franz Xaver Kroetz | Gilles Chavassieux | Les Ateliers |
| 1987 | The Satin Slipper | Paul Claudel | Antoine Vitez (7) | Théâtre national de Chaillot |
| 1988 | Tête d'or | Paul Claudel | Aurélien Recoing | Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe |
| 1989-90 | Oedipus Rex | Sophocles | Jean-Pierre Vincent | Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers |
| 1989-90 | Oedipus at Colonus | Sophocles | Jean-Pierre Vincent (2) | Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers |
| 1989-90 | The Birds | Aristophanes | Jean-Pierre Vincent (3) | Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers |
| 1991 | Summer and Smoke | Tennessee Williams | Gilles Gleizes | Théâtre de Rungis |
| 1991-92 | Le Vieil Hiver | Roger Planchon | Roger Planchon | Théâtre national de la Colline |
| 1991-92 | Fragile Forêt | Roger Planchon | Roger Planchon (2) | Théâtre national de la Colline |
| 1993 | Munich-Athènes | Lars Norén | Claudia Stavisky | Théâtre des Carmes |
| 1993 | Faust | Fernando Pessoa | Aurélien Recoing (2) | Théâtre de la commune Aubervilliers |
| 1994 | Entretiens | Thomas Bernhard & Krista Fleischman | Laurence Roy & Aurélien Recoing (3) | Festival d'Avignon |
| 1995 | Affabulazione | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Christophe Perton | Théâtre de Gennevilliers |
| 1997 | Nathan the Wise | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Denis Marleau | National Theatre of Strasbourg |
| 1997 | Poèmes | Antoine Vitez | Antoine Vitez (8) | Festival d'Avignon |
| 2010-11 | Andromaque | Jean Racine | Muriel Mayette | Roman Theatre of Orange |
| 2011 | Bérénice | Jean Racine | Muriel Mayette (2) | Comédie-Française |
| 2011-12 | The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | Aurélien Recoing (4) | Studio-Théâtre |
| 2014 | People | Edward Bond | Alain Françon | Théâtre Gérard-Philippe |

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 1982 | Saint Louis ou La royauté bienfaisante | Alphonse | Jean-Claude Lubtchansky | TV movie |
| 1987 | Exploits of a Young Don Juan | Adolphe | Gianfranco Mingozzi | |
| 1988 | Les tisserands du pouvoir | Jacques Roussel | Claude Fournier | TV mini-series |
| 1989 | Les baisers de secours | The comedian | Philippe Garrel | |
| 1989 | Liberté, Libertés | Frétaux | Jean-Dominique de La Rochefoucauld | TV movie |
| 1989 | Le masque | Patrick Villedieu | Bruno Gantillon | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1989 | Les dossiers de l'écran | Henri de Guise | Yves-André Hubert | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1990 | Lacenaire | François | Francis Girod | |
| 1990 | Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret | M. Gourion | Philippe Laïk | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1991 | La note bleue | Auguste Clésinger | Andrzej Zulawski | |
| 1991 | Absolution | | Jean-Marie Cailleaux | Short |
| 1993 | Louis, the Child King | Jean François Paul de Gondi | Roger Planchon | |
| 1993 | La femme à abattre | Richard | Guy Pinon | |
| 1993 | Le bourgeois gentilhomme | Count Dorante | Yves-André Hubert (2) | TV movie |
| 1994 | Aux petits bonheurs | | Michel Deville | |
| 1994 | Poubelles | The man | Olias Barco | Short |
| 1994 | Toilettes | | Olias Barco (2) | Short |
| 1995 | La femme piégée | Jeff | Frédéric Compain | TV movie |
| 1995 | Les Cinq Dernières Minutes | Gérard Lelong | Jean-Marc Seban | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1996 | Passage à l'acte | | Francis Girod (2) | |
| 1996 | Antoine | Gilles | Jérôme Foulon | TV movie |
| 1996 | Julie Lescaut | Marc Lefranc | Josée Dayan | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1997 | Le cri du silence | Marie's Husband | Jacques Malaterre | TV movie |
| 1997 | En danger de vie | Paul | Bruno Gantillon (2) | TV movie |
| 1997 | Rideau de feu | Arthur | Igaal Niddam | TV movie |
| 1997 | La vie à trois | Gilles Moutiers | Christiane Lehérissey | TV movie |
| 1997 | Nestor Burma | Vialar | Philippe Venault | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1998 | Tous ensemble | Gérard | Bertrand Arthuys | TV movie |
| 1998 | L'échappée | Charles | Roger Guillot | TV movie |
| 1998 | La kiné | Stopira | Aline Issermann | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1999 | La rivale | Sébastien | Alain Nahum | TV movie |
| 1999 | Margot des Clairies | Georges | Jean-Marc Seban (2) | TV movie |
| 1999 | Décollage immédiat | Roland Bartholdi | Aline Issermann (2) | TV mini-series |
| 1999 | Juliette Pomerleau | | Claude Fournier (2) | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2000 | Modern Life | Georges | Laurence Ferreira Barbosa | |
| 2000 | Fidelity | Bernard | Andrzej Żuławski (2) | |
| 2001 | Time Out | Vincent | Laurent Cantet | Nominated - National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor Nominated - Village Voice Film Poll - Best Actor |
| 2001 | Un jeu d'enfants | Inspector Mayens | Laurent Tuel | |
| 2001 | Un coeur oublié | Denis Diderot | Philippe Monnier | TV movie |
| 2001 | Les rencontres de Joëlle | Antoine | Patrick Poubel | TV movie |
| 2002 | Loup ! | Ferdinand | Zoé Galeron | Short |
| 2002 | Premier cri | The man | Xavier Mussel | Short |
| 2002 | La boîte noire | | Angelo Cianci | Short |
| 2002 | Garonne | Sylvain | Claude d'Anna | TV mini-series |
| 2003 | Ruby & Quentin | Rocco | Francis Veber | |
| 2003 | That Woman | The Identification Man | Guillaume Nicloux | |
| 2003 | Dans le rouge du couchant | The man with the knife | Edgardo Cozarinsky | |
| 2003 | Un fils | Max | Amal Bedjaoui | |
| 2003 | Pôv' fille | Paul | Jean-Luc Baraton & Patrick Maurin | Short |
| 2003 | Le pays des ours | Henri | Jean-Baptiste Léonetti | Short |
| 2003 | Un autre homme | André | Catherine Klein | Short |
| 2003 | Sergueï & Tatiana | Sergueï Komiakoff | Jean-Yves Guilleux | Short |
| 2003 | Mauvais jour | The man | Juan Carlos Medina | Short |
| 2003 | L'aubaine | Alex | Aline Issermann (3) | TV movie |
| 2004 | Souli | Yann | Alexander Abela | |
| 2004 | One Long Winter Without Fire | Jean | Greg Zglinski | |
| 2004 | L'ennemi naturel | Monsieur Tanguy | Pierre-Erwan Guillaume | |
| 2004 | Insurrection/résurrection | The psychiatrist | Pierre Méréjkowsky | |
| 2004 | Jour blanc | Graham | Germinal Alvarez | Short |
| 2004 | Claire l'obscure | The cellist | Joël Farges | Short |
| 2004 | Je m'indiffère | The Inspector | Alain Rudaz & Sébastien Spitz | Short |
| 2004 | Issa | | Idir Serghine | Short |
| 2004 | Le pays des enfants perdus | Dolor | Francis Girod (3) | TV movie |
| 2005 | 13 Tzameti | Jacky | Géla Babluani | |
| 2005 | Ghosts | Pierre | Christian Petzold | |
| 2005 | Cold Showers | Louis Steiner | Antony Cordier | |
| 2005 | Trois couples en quête d'orages | Rémi | Jacques Otmezguine | |
| 2005 | Orlando Vargas | Orlando Vargas | Juan Pittaluga | |
| 2005 | Naissance de l'orgueil | | Antonio Hébrard | Short |
| 2005 | Le crime des renards | Baptiste | Serge Meynard | TV movie |
| 2005 | Nuit noire, 17 octobre 1961 | Pierre Somveille | Alain Tasma | TV movie |
| 2005 | Blandine, l'insoumise | Abel Pagano | Claude d'Anna (2) | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2006 | Pardonnez-moi | Paul | Maïwenn | |
| 2006 | Un ami parfait | The doctor | Francis Girod (4) | |
| 2006 | Müetter | Mathieu | Dominique Lienhard | |
| 2006 | Les fragments d'Antonin | Professor Labrousse | Gabriel Le Bomin | |
| 2006 | La vie privée | Guillaume Vaudrey | Zina Modiano | |
| 2006 | Play the Game | Captain W.P. Nevill | Stéphane Barbato | Short |
| 2006 | Le secret | The father | Sébastien Fabioux | Short |
| 2006 | Sharpe's Challenge | Gudin | Tom Clegg | TV movie |
| 2006 | Sartre, l'âge des passions | Raymond Aron | Claude Goretta | TV movie |
| 2007 | Intimate Enemies | Commander Vesoul | Florent Emilio Siri | |
| 2007 | Contre-enquête | Stéphane Josse | Franck Mancuso | |
| 2007 | One | Lucas | Serge Mirzabekiantz | Short |
| 2007 | Un éclat | Pierre Lumens | Rodolphe Viémont | Short |
| 2007 | L'inconnu | | Aurélien Vernhes-Lermusiaux | Short |
| 2007 | Notable donc coupable | Maurice Ballard | Dominique Baron & Francis Girod (5) | TV movie |
| 2007 | Opération Turquoise | Captain Cormery | Alain Tasma (2) | TV movie |
| 2007 | Ondes de choc | Rossi | Laurent Carcélès | TV mini-series |
| 2007 | Paris enquêtes criminelles | Father Roche | Gilles Béhat | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2008 | Il resto della notte | Giovanni Boarin | Francesco Munzi | |
| 2008 | La saison des orphelins | Achille | David Tardé | |
| 2008 | Paris Nord Sud | Justin | Franck Llopis | |
| 2008 | Troubles sens | Martin | Anna Condo | Short |
| 2008 | Béthune sur Nil | Daniel Vaillant | Jérôme Foulon (2) | TV movie |
| 2008 | Six angles vifs | Rossi | Laurent Carcélès (2) | TV mini-series |
| 2009 | Tomorrow at Dawn | Captain Déprées | Denis Dercourt | |
| 2009 | La Horde | Jimenez | Yannick Dahan & Benjamin Rocher | |
| 2009 | Diamant 13 | Ladje | Gilles Béhat (2) | |
| 2009 | Magma | Commissioner Darcy | Pierre Vinour | |
| 2009 | Le repenti | Victor Fontanel | Olivier Guignard | TV movie |
| 2010 | Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs) | Internet Stranger | Lodge Kerrigan | |
| 2010 | Kill Me Please | Doctor Krueger | Olias Barco (3) | |
| 2010 | Poursuite | Patrick | Marina Deak | |
| 2010 | Cargo, les hommes perdus. | Buck | Léon Desclozeaux | |
| 2010 | Joseph et la fille | Raphaël | Xavier De Choudens | |
| 2010 | L'étranger | M. Raymond | Franck Llopis (2) | |
| 2010 | Le pain du diable | Aimé Saillant | Bertrand Arthuys (2) | TV movie |
| 2011 | My Worst Nightmare | Thierry | Anne Fontaine | |
| 2011 | Switch | Delors | Frédéric Schoendoerffer | |
| 2011 | Équinoxe | Martin | Laurent Carcélès (3) | |
| 2011 | L'ombre d'un flic | Julien Ortéguy | David Delrieux | TV movie |
| 2011 | Faux coupable | Daniel Varini | Didier Le Pêcheur | TV movie |
| 2012 | Le grand bain | André | Tom Gargonne | Short |
| 2012 | Le grand Georges | Maurice Thorez | François Marthouret | TV movie |
| 2012 | Ça ne peut pas continuer comme ça ! | Vincent / Nuissbaum | Dominique Cabrera | TV movie |
| 2013 | Blue Is the Warmest Colour | Adèle's father | Abdellatif Kechiche | |
| 2013 | Là-haut | Xavier | Bill Barluet | Short |
| 2013 | Le métis de Dieu | Pope John Paul II | Ilan Duran Cohen | TV movie |
| 2014 | La vie pure | Edgar Maufrais | Jeremy Banster | |
| 2014 | Mars | Steve Morton | Martin Douaire | Short |
| 2014 | Le criquet | Eric | Daisy Sadler | Short |
| 2014 | Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus | Harry | Olivier Guignard (2) | TV movie |
| 2014 | Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond | François Darlan | Mat Whitecross | TV mini-series |
| 2015 | Despite the Night | Paul | Philippe Grandrieux | |
| 2015 | Des pierres en ce jardin | Pierre | Pascal Bonnelle | |
| 2015 | La clinique du docteur H | Doctor H | Olivier Barma | TV movie |
| 2015 | The Returned | Etienne Berg | Fabrice Gobert & Frédéric Goupil | TV series (5 episodes) |
| 2016 | Souffler plus fort que la mer | Loïc | Marine Place | |
| 2016 | Trepalium | Silas | Vincent Lannoo | TV mini-series |
| 2023 | The Plough | father | Philippe Garrel | |