# Fabrice Luchini

Fabrice Luchini (French pronunciation:; born Robert Luchini; 1 November 1951) is a French stage and film actor. He has appeared in films such as Potiche, The Women on the 6th Floor, and In the House.

## Life and career

Fabrice Luchini was born in Paris, into an Italian immigrant family from Assisi who were greengrocers. He grew up around the neighbourhood of Goutte d'Or in Paris's 18th arrondissement. When he was 13, his mother apprenticed him to a hairdresser in a trendy parlour in Avenue Matignon, where he would take the name of the hairdresser's son, Fabrice, in place of his real name, Robert.
His first film role was in Tout peut arriver in 1969, directed by Philippe Labro. He then appeared in Éric Rohmer's Le Genou de Claire in 1970 playing a small role as an adolescent. He went on to appear in Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois and Les Nuits de la pleine lune, and also in films directed by Walerian Borowczyk, Nagisa Oshima, Claude Chabrol, Claude Lelouch, Cedric Klapisch and Édouard Molinaro. In 1990 he appeared in Christian Vincent's La Discrète.
For his role in the 2015 film Courted he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival.

## Filmography
### Cinema

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 1969 | Tout peut arriver | Fabrice | Philippe Labro | |
| 1970 | Claire's Knee | Vincent | Éric Rohmer | |
| 1973 | Valparaiso, Valparaiso | | Pascal Aubier | |
| 1974 | Immoral Tales | André | Walerian Borowczyk | |
| 1975 | Ne | Fabrice | Jacques Richard | |
| 1976 | Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre) | Vincent Vergne | Pierre Zucca | |
| 1976 | Les écrans déchirés | Fabrice | Jacques Richard | Short |
| 1978 | Violette Nozière | Camus | Claude Chabrol | |
| 1979 | Perceval le Gallois | Perceval | Éric Rohmer | |
| 1980 | Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme | Arthur | Jean-Louis Daniel | |
| 1981 | The Aviator's Wife | Mercillat | Éric Rohmer | |
| 1981 | La forêt désenchantée | | Jacques Robiolles | Short |
| 1982 | T'es folle ou quoi ? | Jean-François Sevran | Michel Gérard | |
| 1982 | Jimmy Jazz | Fabrice | Laurent Perrin | Short |
| 1983 | Zig Zag Story | Bob Hemler | Patrick Schulmann | |
| 1983 | Il ne faut jurer de rien | Fabrice | Christian Vincent | Short |
| 1984 | Emmanuelle 4 | Oswaldo | Francis Leroi & Iris Letans | |
| 1984 | Full Moon in Paris | Octave | Éric Rohmer | |
| 1985 | Profs | Michel | Patrick Schulmann | |
| 1985 | Rouge-gorge | Frédéric | Pierre Zucca | |
| 1986 | Family Business | The shady lawyer | Costa-Gavras | |
| 1986 | Max, Mon Amour | Nicolas | Nagisa Ōshima | |
| 1986 | Triple sec | | Yves Thomas | Short |
| 1987 | Hôtel du Paradis | Arthur | Jana Boková | |
| 1987 | Les oreilles entre les dents | Luc Fabri | Patrick Schulmann | |
| 1987 | Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle | The art dealer | Éric Rohmer | |
| 1988 | La couleur du vent | Serge | Pierre Granier-Deferre | |
| 1988 | Alouette, je te plumerai | Jacques | Pierre Zucca | |
| 1990 | Uranus | Jourdan | Claude Berri | |
| 1990 | La Discrète | Antoine | Christian Vincent | |
| 1992 | Riens du tout | Lepetit | Cédric Klapisch | |
| 1992 | The Return of Casanova | Camille | Édouard Niermans | |
| 1993 | Toxic Affair | The analyst | Philomène Esposito | |
| 1993 | Tout ça... pour ça ! | Fabrice Lenormand | Claude Lelouch | |
| 1993 | The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque | Marc Rossignol | Éric Rohmer | |
| 1994 | Colonel Chabert | Derville | Yves Angelo | |
| 1995 | L'année Juliette | Camille Prader | Philippe Le Guay | |
| 1996 | Beaumarchais | Pierre Beaumarchais | Édouard Molinaro | |
| 1996 | Men, Women: A User's Manual | Fabio Lini | Claude Lelouch | |
| 1997 | On Guard | Gonzague | Philippe de Broca | |
| 1997 | An Air So Pure | Magnus | Yves Angelo | |
| 1999 | No Scandal | Grégoire Jeancourt | Benoît Jacquot | |
| 1999 | Rien sur Robert | Didier Temple | Pascal Bonitzer | |
| 2001 | Barnie et ses petites contrariétés | Barnie | Bruno Chiche | |
| 2003 | The Cost of Living | Brett | Philippe Le Guay | |
| 2004 | Intimate Strangers | William | Patrice Leconte | |
| 2005 | La cloche a sonné | Simon Arcos | Bruno Herbulot | |
| 2006 | Jean-Philippe | Fabrice | Laurent Tuel | |
| 2007 | Molière | M. Jourdain | Laurent Tirard | |
| 2008 | Paris | Roland Verneuil | Cédric Klapisch | |
| 2008 | A Day at the Museum | A guardian | Jean-Michel Ribes | |
| 2008 | The Girl from Monaco | Bertrand Beauvois | Anne Fontaine | |
| 2009 | Points de vue | Narrator | Yona Friedman | Short |
| 2010 | Potiche | Robert Pujol | François Ozon | |
| 2010 | My Father's Guests | Arnaud Paumelle | Anne Le Ny | |
| 2011 | The Women on the 6th Floor | Jean-Louis Joubert | Philippe Le Guay | |
| 2012 | In the House | Germain Germain | François Ozon | |
| 2012 | Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia | Julius Caesar | Laurent Tirard | |
| 2013 | Bicycling with Molière | Serge Tanneur | Philippe Le Guay | |
| 2014 | Gemma Bovery | Martin Joubert | Anne Fontaine | |
| 2014 | Charly | Fabrice | Jourdan Lucente | Short |
| 2015 | Courted | Michel Racine | Christian Vincent | |
| 2015 | Un début prometteur | Francis Vauvel | Emma Luchini | |
| 2016 | Slack Bay | André van Peteghem | Bruno Dumont | |
| 2018 | A Man in a Hurry | Alain Wapler | Hervé Mimran | |
| 2018 | The Emperor of Paris | Joseph Fouché | Jean-François Richet | |
| 2019 | Joan of Arc | Charles VII of France | Bruno Dumont | |
| 2019 | Alice and the Mayor | Paul Théraneau | Nicolas Pariser | |
| 2019 | The Best Is Yet to Come | Arthur Dreyfus | Matthieu Delaporte & Alexandre de la Patellière | |
| 2019 | The Mystery of Henri Pick | Jean-Michel Rouche | Rémi Bezançon | |
| 2023 | La petite | Joseph Siprien | Guillaume Nicloux | |
| 2023 | The Crime Is Mine | Gustave Rabusset | François Ozon | |
| 2023 | Un homme heureux | Jean Leroy | Tristan Séguéla | |
| 2024 | The Empire | Belzébuth | Bruno Dumont | |
| 2024 | Marcello Mio | Fabrice | Christophe Honoré | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 1979 | La chaine | Laurent | Claude Santelli | TV movie |
| 1980 | Fantômas | Bonardin | Juan Luis Buñuel & Claude Chabrol | TV mini-series |
| 1981 | Le beau monde | Jean-Pierre Davier | Michel Polac | TV movie |
| 1986 | Tous en boîte | Minimax | Charles Nemes | TV mini-series |
| 1986 | Série noire | Kowal | Maurice Dugowson | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1988 | L'argent du mur | Bernd | Jean-François Delassus | TV movie |
| 1988 | Série noire | Pastor | Yves Boisset | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1989 | Les nuits révolutionnaires | Le Huguenot | Charles Brabant | TV mini-series |
| 1990 | Six crimes sans assassin | Simon Lampias | Bernard Stora | TV movie |
| 1994 | Ne m'appelez pas ma petite | Thierry | Jean Becker | TV movie |
| 1998 | Art | Serge | Yves-André Hubert | TV movie |
| 2017 | Call My Agent! | Himself | Laurent Tirard | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2023 | Class Act | Marcel Loiseau | Tristan Séguéla | TV mini-series |

## Theatre

* En attendant Godot (1978)
* Troïlus et Cressida (1979)
* De toutes les couleurs (1982)
* Voyage au bout de la nuit (1986)
* Le Veilleur de nuit (1986)
* La Valse du hasard (1986)
* Le Secret (1987)
* Voyage au bout de la nuit (1987)
* Voyage au bout de la nuit (1988)
* Une folie électrique (1989)
* Deux femmes pour un fantôme and La Baby-sitter (1990)
* La Société de chasse (1991)
* Partenaires (1993)
* « Art » (1994)
* Fabrice Luchini dit des textes de Baudelaire, Hugo, La Fontaine, Nietzsche (1996)
* Un cœur simple (1996)
* L’Arrivée à New-York (2000)
* Écoute mon ami (et autres textes de Louis Jouvet) (2002)
* Knock ou le triomphe de la médecine (2002)
* Fabrice Luchini dit des textes de La Fontaine, Nietzsche, Céline, Baudelaire (2005)
* Molly (2005)
* Le Point sur Robert (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
* Fabrice Luchini lit Philippe Muray (2010, 2011, 2012)
* La Fontaine (2011)
* Une heure de tranquillité (2013)

## Literature

* In 2010, Fabrice Luchini wrote the preface of two books: A la rencontre de Sacha Guitry, published by Editions Oxus, and Seul avec tous by Laurent Terzieff, published by Presses de la Renaissance.
* In 2011, he collaborated in a book by Philippe Muray, published by les Cahiers d'histoire de la philosophie (Editions du Cerf).
* Also in 2011, he released Fabrice Luchini lit fragments d'un discours amoureux through Audiolib.
* In 2012, he released Variations (La Fontaine & Baudelaire) on CD and DVD on Barclay / Universal Music France

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Nominated work | Result |
| 1985 | César Award for Best Supporting Actor | Full Moon in Paris | Nominated |
| 1991 | Prix Jean Gabin | La Discrète | Won |
| 1991 | César Award for Best Actor | La Discrète | Nominated |
| 1993 | César Award for Best Supporting Actor | The Return of Casanova | Nominated |
| 1994 | César Award for Best Supporting Actor | Tout ça... pour ça ! | Won |
| 1995 | César Award for Best Supporting Actor | Colonel Chabert | Nominated |
| 1997 | César Award for Best Actor | Beaumarchais | Nominated |
| 2002 | Prix du Brigadier | Knock | Won |
| 2007 | Moscow International Film Festival - Best Actor | Molière | Won |
| 2008 | César Award for Best Supporting Actor | Molière | Nominated |
| 2013 | César Award for Best Actor | In the House | Nominated |
| 2013 | European Film Award for Best Actor | In the House | Nominated |
| 2014 | César Award for Best Actor | Bicycling with Molière | Nominated |
| 2014 | Globe de Cristal Award for Best Actor | Bicycling with Molière | Nominated |
| 2015 | Volpi Cup for Best Actor | Courted | Won |
| 2016 | César Award for Best Actor | Courted | Nominated |
| 2016 | Lumières Award for Best Actor | Courted | Nominated |
| 2017 | César Award for Best Actor | Slack Bay | Nominated |
| 2020 | Globe de Cristal Award for Best Actor - Comedy | The Mystery of Henri Pick | Nominated |
| 2020 | Lumières Award for Best Actor | Alice and the Mayor | Nominated |