Fabrice Luchini

Fabrice Luchini (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.
For his role in the 2015 film Courted he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival.
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. 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 Nagisa Oshima, Pierre Zucca, Claude Lelouch, Cedric Klapisch and Édouard Molinaro. In 1990 he appeared in Christian Vincent's La Discrète.
Selected filmography
Tout peut arriver (1969) – Fabrice
Le genou de Claire (1970) – Vincent
Valparaiso, Valparaiso (1971)
Contes immoraux (1973) – André / Julie's cousin – Story 1
Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre) (1975) – Vincent Vergne
Ne (1975)
Les écrans déchirés (1976, Short) – Fabrice
Violette Nozière (1978) – Camus, l'étudiant
Perceval le Gallois (1978) – Perceval
Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme (1980) – Arthur
La femme de l'aviateur (1981) – Mercillat
La forêt désenchantée (1981, Short)
T'es folle ou quoi? (1982) – Jean-François Sevran
Jimmy Jazz (1982, Short) – Fabrice
Zig Zag Story (1983) – Bob Hemler
Il ne faut jurer de rien (1983, Short)
Lettre de la Sierra Morena (1983)
Emmanuelle 4 (1984) – Oswaldo
Les nuits de la pleine lune (1984) – Octave
Rouge-gorge (1985) – Frédéric
Profs (1985) – Michel
Conseil de famille (1986) – The shady lawyer
Max mon amour (1986) – Nicolas
Triple sec (1986, Short)
4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle (1987) – Painting Salesman
Hôtel du paradis (1987) – Arthur
Les oreilles entre les dents (1987) – Luc Fabri
Alouette, je te plumerai (1988) – Jacques
La Couleur du vent (1988) – Serge
La discrète (1990) – Antoine
Uranus (1990) – Jourdan
Le retour de Casanova (1992) – Camille
Riens du tout (1992) – Lepetit
L'Arbre, le maire et la médiathèque (1993) – Marc Rossignol – the School Teacher
Toxic Affair (1993) – The Analyst
Tout ça... pour ça ! (1993) – Fabrice Lenormand
Le Colonel Chabert (1994) – Derville
L'année Juliette (1995) – Camille Prader
Beaumarchais, l'insolent (1996) – Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
Hommes, femmes, mode d'emploi (1996) – Fabio Lini
An Air So Pure (1997) – Magnus
Le Bossu (1997) – Gonzague
Rien sur Robert (1999) – Didier Temple
Pas de scandale (1999) – Grégoire Jeancourt
Barnie et ses petites contrariétés (2001) – Barnie
Le coût de la vie (2003) – Brett
Confidences trop intimes (aka Intimate Strangers) (2004) – William
La cloche a sonné (2005) – Simon Arcos
Jean-Philippe (2006) – Fabrice
Molière (2007) – M. Jourdain
Paris (2008) – Roland Verneuil
La fille de Monaco (2008) – Bertrand Beauvois
Musée haut, musée bas (2008) – Un gardien musée Malraux
My Father's Guests (2010) – Arnaud Paumelle
Potiche (2010) – Robert Pujol
Les femmes du 6ème étage (2010) – Jean-Louis Joubert
In the House (2012) – Germain Germain
Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia (2012) – Jules César
Alceste à bicyclette (2013) – Serge Tanneur
Gemma Bovery (2014) – Martin Joubert
Un début prometteur (2015) – Francis Vauvel
L'Hermine (2015) – Michel Racine
Slack Bay (2016) – André Van Peteghem
A Man in a Hurry (2018) – Alain Wapler
L'empereur de Paris (2018) – Fouché
The Mystery of Henri Pick (2019) – Jean-Michel Rouche
Joan of Arc (2019) – King of France
Alice and the Mayor (2019) – Paul Théraneau
The Best Is Yet to Come (2019) – Arthur
Television
La chaîne (TV movie by Claude Santelli) – Laurent (1979)
(TV mini-series) – Bonardin (1980)
"L'étreinte du diable" (Juan Luis Buñuel)
"L'échafaud magique" (Claude Chabrol)
Le beau monde (TV movie by Michel Polac) – Jean-Pierre Davin (1981)
Série noire (TV series)
"Adieu la vie" (Maurice Dugowson) – Kowal (1986)
"La fée carabine" (Yves Boisset) – Pastor (1988)
Tous en boîte (TV mini-series by Charles Nemès) – Minimax (1986)
Les dossiers de l'écran (TV series)
L'argent du mur (TV movie by Jean-François Delassus) – Bernd (1988)
Au nom du peuple français (Maurice Dugowson) – Robespierre (1988)
Les nuits révolutionnaires (TV mini-series by Charles Brabant) – Huguenot sans-culotte (1989)
Six crimes sans assassin (TV movie by Bernard Stora) – Simon Lampias (1990)
Call My Agent ! (TV Series / 1 Episode) – Himself (2017)
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
Prix Jean Gabin (1991)
César Award for Best Supporting Actor, for Tout ça... pour ça ! (1994)
Prix du Brigadier (2002)
Silver George for Best Actor at the 29th Moscow International Film Festival (2007)
Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival (2015)
References
External links
1951 births
Living people
French male film actors
French male stage actors
French people of Italian descent
20th-century French male actors
21st-century French male actors
French male television actors
Best Supporting Actor César Award winners
Volpi Cup for Best Actor winners
People of Umbrian descent