Cris Campion

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Cris Campion (born 1 September 1966) is a French film and television actor, previously known as Thierry Campion.

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Born in Versailles, [1] Campion's first leading role came in Roman Polanski’s Pirates (1986). [2] The next year, he was nominated for a César Award for Most Promising Actor for Field of Honor . In Charlemagne, le prince à cheval (1993), he played Pepin the Hunchback. [3]

Campion married Anny Duperey in 1993, two years after she had left Bernard Giraudeau, but they separated after some ten years. [4] Duperey has called Giraudeau “the man of my life” and Campion “the love of my life”. [5]

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  1. ↑ Cris Campion at bfi.org.uk, accessed 24 April 2020
  2. 1 2 Julia Ain-Krupa, Roman Polanski: A Life in Exile (2010), p. 118
  3. 1 2 CinémAction TV, Issue 11 (1995), p. 61
  4. ↑ “Anny Duperey: Ce qu'il faisait avec une autre femme ne me regardait pas”, purepeople.com, 27 May 2015, accessed 24 April 2020
  5. ↑ Marine Madelmond, “Anny Duperey: Cris Campion, l’amour de sa vie était son petit fils dans un film”, in Gala, 18 January 2018 (in French)

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