# Michel Fau

Michel Fau (born 1964) is a French comedian, actor and theatre director.

## Personal life

At 18, he left his hometown for training at French National Academy of Dramatic Arts from 1986 to 1989. He trained with Michel Bouquet, Gerard Desarthe and Pierre Vial.
He has appeared on stage regularly in works directed by Olivier Py and he also worked with Olivier Desbordes, Jean Sébastien Rajon, Pierre Guillois, Jean-Luc Lagarce, Jean-Michel Rabeux, Jean-Claude Penchenat, Laurent Gutmann, Stéphane Braunschweig, Jacques Weber, Sandrine Kiberlain, Léa Drucker, Gaspard Ulliel, Julie Depardieu, Charlotte de Turckheim, Chantal Ladesou, Catherine Frot, Samir Guesmi, ...
In cinema, he worked with directors like Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Gilles Bourdos, Albert Dupontel, Dominik Moll, François Ozon, Benoît Jacquot, Noémie Lvovsky, Nina Companeez, Jean-Michel Ribes, Xavier Giannoli, Christophe Honoré, Josée Dayan, André Téchiné, ...
He occasionally directs an interpretation workshop at the French National Academy of Dramatic Arts.
During the Night of the 2011 Molière Award, he made a cover of Carla Bruni's song Quelqu'un m'a dit in a parody of classical singer.

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 1990 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Ragueneau's Poet | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | |
| 1993 | Relâche | The young actor | Gilles Bourdos | Short |
| 1993 | Le Don | | David Delrieux | TV movie |
| 1997 | Le JT, petit opéra | | Philippe Béziat | Short |
| 1999 | The Creator | Nicolas | Albert Dupontel | |
| 2000 | Harry, He's Here to Help | Eric | Dominik Moll | |
| 2000 | Les yeux fermés | Michel | Olivier Py | TV movie |
| 2002 | Le petit vélo dans la tête | | Fabrice Fouquet | Short |
| 2003 | Swimming Pool | First Man | François Ozon | |
| 2005 | Foon | Miss Petchers | Benoît Pétré, Mika Tard, ... | |
| 2005 | Marie Antoinette | Louis XVI | Alain Brunard | TV movie |
| 2005 | Marc Eliot | Gregory Fontaine | Patrick Jamain | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2006 | Gaspard le bandit | Riboux | Benoît Jacquot | TV movie |
| 2007 | Let's Dance | The psychiatrist | Noémie Lvovsky | |
| 2007 | Un train de retard | Eric | Jeanne Gottesdiener | Short |
| 2007 | Un nouveau contrat | The Mechanic | Christophe Leraie | Short |
| 2011 | Requiem pour une tueuse | The Conductor | Jérôme Le Gris | |
| 2011 | À la recherche du temps perdu | Jupien | Nina Companeez | TV mini-series |
| 2013 | 9 Month Stretch | The gynecologist | Albert Dupontel | |
| 2014 | Brèves de comptoir | The writer | Jean-Michel Ribes | |
| 2015 | Marguerite | Atos Pezzini / Divo | Xavier Giannoli | Nominated - César Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 2015 | Arletty, une passion coupable | Sacha Guitry | Arnaud Sélignac | TV movie |
| 2016 | Open at Night | Bar manager | Édouard Baer | |
| 2016 | Sophie's Misfortunes | Father Huc | Christophe Honoré | |
| 2016 | Capitaine Marleau | Marc Durieux | Josée Dayan | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2017 | Golden Years | Samuel | André Téchiné | |
| 2017 | Ordalie | Karl Kaplan | Sacha Barbin | Short |
| 2018 | Paris Pigalle | Maurice Vogel | Cédric Anger | |
| 2018 | Alien Crystal Palace | Hambourg | Arielle Dombasle | |
| 2018 | The Most Assassinated Woman in the World | André | Franck Ribière | |
| 2019 | Amor maman | Michel | Roland Menou | Short |
| 2020 | La fuite | The uncle | Aurélien Gabrielli | Short |
| 2020 | I Love You Coiffure | Patrick | Muriel Robin | TV movie |
| 2022 | Habib, la grande aventure | The director | Aurélien Gabrielli | |
| 2022 | Diane de Poitiers | Gabriel Antoine Le Camus | Josée Dayan | TV mini-series |
| 2023 | Borgo | The inspector | Stéphane Demoustier | |
| 2023 | The Crime Is Mine | Maurice Vrai | François Ozon | |
| 2023 | Les secrets de la princesse de Cadignan | Honoré de Balzac | Arielle Dombasle | |
| 2023 | Capitaine Marleau | Claude | Josée Dayan | TV series (1 episode) |

## Theater

| Year | Title | Author | Director | Notes |
| 1984 | Taches d’encre | Isabelle Allard | Isabelle Allard | |
| 1984 | La Mort de Marthe | Attilio Cossu | Attilio Cossu | |
| 1985 | Creditors | August Strindberg | Michel Fau | |
| 1985 | Thérèse Raquin | Émile Zola | Michel Fau | Played Camille |
| 1985 | Measure for Measure | William Shakespeare | Régis Braun | (in french) played Angelo |
| 1986 | Creditors | August Strindberg | Michel Fau | |
| 1986 | Le Préjugé vaincu | Pierre de Marivaux | Éric Sadin | |
| 1987 | Le Ça et le vent | Viorel Stéphan | Philippe Honoré | |
| 1988 | Le Ventre | Jean-Michel Rabeux | Michel Fau | |
| 1988 | Après la pluie, le beau temps | Countess of Ségur | Philippe Honoré | |
| 1988-90 | The Misanthrope | Molière | Jacques Weber | Played Alceste |
| 1989 | La Vie parisienne | Jacques Offenbach | Pierre Vial | |
| 1990 | Fragments d’une lettre d’adieu lus par des géologues | Normand Chaurette | Gabriel Garran | |
| 1990 | La Femme abandonnée | Stéphane Auvray-Nauroy | Stéphane Auvray-Nauroy | |
| 1991 | Tableaux Impossibles | Jan Voss | Gilberte Tsaï | |
| 1991 | La Déploration | Eugène Durif | Philippe Honoré | |
| 1992 | Phèdre | Jean Racine | Stéphane Auvray-Nauroy | |
| 1992 | La Baïxada | Eric Sadin | Michel Fau | |
| 1992 | La Désillusion | Frédéric Constant & Michel Fau | Michel Fau | |
| 1992 | Les Aventures de Paco Goliard | Olivier Py | Olivier Py | |
| 1993 | Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare | Pierre Guillois | |
| 1993 | Il est trop tard | Stéphane Auvray-Nauroy | Stéphane Auvray-Nauroy | |
| 1994 | The New Menoza | Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz | Laurent Gutmann | |
| 1995 | La Panoplie du squelette | Olivier Py | Olivier Py | |
| 1995 | La Cagnotte | Eugène Labiche | Jean-Luc Lagarce | Played Sylvain |
| 1995 | La Servante | Olivier Py | Olivier Py | |
| 1996 | Love's Labours Lost | William Shakespeare | Jean-Claude Penchenat | (in french) Played Biron |
| 1996 | Ce qui est resté d’un Rembrandt | Jean Genet | Laurent Gutmann | |
| 1996 | Les Décors sont de Roger H. | Laurent Gutmann | Laurent Gutmann | |
| 1996 | Miss Knife et sa baraque chantante | Olivier Py | Olivier Py | |
| 1997 | L'Architecte et la forêt Pastorale noire | Olivier Py | Olivier Py | |
| 1997-98 | Le Visage d’Orphée | Olivier Py | Olivier Py | |
| 1998 | Hyènes | Christian Siméon | Jean Macqueron | Prix Gérard Philipe |
| 1999 | Athalie | Jean Racine | Jean Gillibert | |
| 1999 | The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare | Stéphane Braunschweig | (in french) played Bassanio |
| 1999 | Der Silbersee | Kurt Weill | Olivier Desbordes | |
| 1999-2000 | Meurtres hors champ | Eugène Durif | Jean-Michel Rabeux | |
| 2000 | American Buffalo | David Mamet | Michel Fau | |
| 2000 | Edmond | David Mamet | Pierre Laville | |
| 2000 | Pelléas and Mélisande | Maurice Maeterlinck | Pierre Guillois | |
| 2000-01 | L’Apocalypse joyeuse | Olivier Py | Olivier Py | |
| 2002 | L’Homosexuel ou la difficulté de s’exprimer | Copi | Jean-Michel Rabeux | |
| 2003 | Le Soulier de satin | Paul Claudel | Olivier Py | Played L'annoncier, l'ange gardien, l'irrépressible, l'actrice |
| 2004 | Orphée 3 | Pier Paolo Pasolini & Eugénio de Andrade | Michel Fau | |
| 2004 | The Love for Three Oranges | Sergei Prokofiev | Philippe Calvario | |
| 2004 | Feu l'amour ! / On purge bébé / Léonie est en avance / Hortense a dit J'm'en fous ! | Georges Feydeau | Jean-Michel Rabeux | |
| 2004 | Dédé | Albert Willemetz & Henri Christiné | Olivier Desbordes | Played Robert Dauvergne |
| 2005 | The Robbers | Friedrich Schiller | Paul Desvaux | |
| 2005 | The Balcony | Jean Genet | Sébastien Rajon | |
| 2006 | Eugene Onegin | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Michel Fau | Directed production at Grand-Théâtre, Dijon |
| 2006 | L'Énigme Vilar | Jean Vilar | Olivier Py | |
| 2006 | Die Entführung aus dem Serail | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Olivier Desbordes | |
| 2006-07 | Illusions comiques | Olivier Py | Olivier Py | Prix du Syndicat de la critique - Best Actor |
| 2007 | Symposium | Plato | Juliette Deschamps | |
| 2007 | Madama Butterfly | Giacomo Puccini | Michel Fau | |
| 2007 | Bastien und Bastienne | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Michel Fau | |
| 2007-08 | L'Ignorant et le fou | Thomas Bernhard | Emmanuel Daumas | |
| 2008 | Oresteia | Aeschylus | Olivier Py | |
| 2008-09 | Othello | William Shakespeare | Éric Vigner | |
| 2009 | Le Soulier de satin | Paul Claudel | Olivier Py | |
| 2009 | Illusions comiques | Olivier Py | Olivier Py | |
| 2009 | Les Enfants de Saturne | Olivier Py | Olivier Py | |
| 2009 | Le Rosier de Madame Husson | Guy de Maupassant | Michel Fau | |
| 2010 | L'Impardonnable Revue pathétique et dégradante de Monsieur Fau | Michel Fau | Emmanuel Daumas | |
| 2010-11 | Nono | Sacha Guitry | Michel Fau | Directed and played Robert Chapelle |
| 2010-11 | A Doll's House | Henrik Ibsen | Michel Fau | |
| 2011 | Une visite inopportune | Copi | Philippe Calvario | |
| 2011 | Britannicus | Jean Racine | Michel Fau | Directed and played Néron |
| 2011-12 | Courteline en dentelles | Georges Courteline | Jérôme Deschamps | |
| 2011-12 | Récital emphatique | Michel Fau | Michel Fau | |
| 2012 | Entertaining Mr Sloane | Joe Orton | Michel Fau | Directed and played Eddie |
| 2013 | Demain il fera jour | Henry de Montherlant | Michel Fau | |
| 2013 | Ciboulette | Reynaldo Hahn | Michel Fau | Opéra-Comique, Paris (also played La comtesse de Castiglione). Issued on DVD by FRA-Musica and Naxos |
| 2014 | The Misanthrope | Molière | Michel Fau | Nominated - Molière Award for Best Actor Nominated - Molière Award for Best Director |
| 2014 | Brûlez-la! Zelda la Magnifique | Christian Siméon | Michel Fau | |
| 2015 | Cactus Flower | Pierre Barillet & Jean-Pierre Gredy | Michel Fau | Nominated - Molière Award for Best Actor Nominated - Molière Award for Best Play Nominated - Molière Award for Best Director Nominated - Molière Award for Best Comedy |
| 2015 | Dardanus | Jean-Philippe Rameau | Michel Fau | Bordeaux Opera; Grand prix du meilleur spectacle lyrique du Syndicat de la critique. Issued on DVD by Harmonia Mundi |
| 2015-16 | Un amour qui ne finit pas | André Roussin | Michel Fau | Prix du Brigadier |
| 2016 | Par-delà les marronniers | Jean-Michel Ribes | Jean-Michel Ribes | Played Arthur Cravan |
| 2016 | Peau de vache | Pierre Barillet & Jean-Pierre Gredy | Michel Fau | |
| 2017 | Tartuffe | Molière | Michel Fau | |
| 2017 | Cactus Flower | Pierre Barillet & Jean-Pierre Gredy | Michel Fau | |
| 2018 | Douce amère | Jean Poiret | Michel Fau | |
| 2018 | Fric-Frac | Édouard Bourdet | Michel Fau | |
| 2019 | La belle Hélène | Jacques Offenbach | Michel Fau | |
| 2019 | Ariadne auf Naxos | Richard Strauss | Michel Fau | Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse |
| 2019 | Le postillon de Lonjumeau | Adolphe Adam | Michel Fau | Director (also played Madame Rose) at the Opéra-Comique, Paris. Issued on DVD by Naxos |
| 2020 | Betrayal | Harold Pinter | Michel Fau | |
| 2020 | George Dandin ou le Mari confondu | Molière | Michel Fau | Played title role and directed; at Versailles and the Théâtre de l'Athénée |
| 2021 | Wozzeck | Alban Berg | Michel Fau | |
| 2021 | Qu'est-il arrivé à Bette Davis et Joan Crawford ? | Jean Marbœuf | Michel Fau | |
| 2022 | Lorsque l'enfant paraît | André Roussin | Michel Fau | Nominated - Molière Award for Best Actor Nominated - Molière Award for Best Director Nominated - Molière Award for Best Comedy |
| 2023 | Zémire et Azor | André Grétry | Michel Fau | Opéra Comique Paris and Tourcoing Théâtre Municipal Raymond Devos |
| 2023 | Le Vison voyageur | Ray Cooney & John Chapman | Michel Fau | |
| 2023 | Piège pour un homme seul | Robert Thomas | Michel Fau | |