Fabrice Luchini

Fabrice Luchini
Luchini at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival
Born	Robert Luchini (1951-11-01) 1 November 1951 (age 73) Paris, France
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1969–present

Fabrice Luchini (French pronunciation: [fabʁislykini] ; 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 ^[1] 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. ^[2]

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
	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
	La forêt désenchantée		Jacques Robiolles	Short
1982	T'es folle ou quoi ?	Jean-François Sevran	Michel Gérard
	Jimmy Jazz	Fabrice	Laurent Perrin	Short
1983	Zig Zag Story	Bob Hemler	Patrick Schulmann
	Il ne faut jurer de rien	Fabrice	Christian Vincent	Short
1984	Emmanuelle 4	Oswaldo	Francis Leroi & Iris Letans
	Full Moon in Paris	Octave	Éric Rohmer
1985	Profs	Michel	Patrick Schulmann
	Rouge-gorge	Frédéric	Pierre Zucca
1986	Family Business	The shady lawyer	Costa-Gavras
	Max mon amour	Nicolas	Nagisa Ōshima
	Triple sec		Yves Thomas	Short
1987	Hôtel du Paradis	Arthur	Jana Boková
	Les oreilles entre les dents	Luc Fabri	Patrick Schulmann
	Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle	The art dealer	Éric Rohmer
1988	La couleur du vent	Serge	Pierre Granier-Deferre
	Alouette, je te plumerai	Jacques	Pierre Zucca
1990	Uranus	Jourdan	Claude Berri
	La Discrète	Antoine	Christian Vincent
1992	Riens du tout	Lepetit	Cédric Klapisch
	The Return of Casanova	Camille	Édouard Niermans
1993	Toxic Affair	The analyst	Philomène Esposito
	Tout ça... pour ça !	Fabrice Lenormand	Claude Lelouch
	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
	Men, Women: A User's Manual	Fabio Lini	Claude Lelouch
1997	On Guard	Gonzague	Philippe de Broca
	An Air So Pure	Magnus	Yves Angelo
1999	No Scandal	Grégoire Jeancourt	Benoît Jacquot
	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
	A Day at the Museum	A guardian	Jean-Michel Ribes
	The Girl from Monaco	Bertrand Beauvois	Anne Fontaine
2009	Points de vue	Narrator	Yona Friedman	Short
2010	Potiche	Robert Pujol	François Ozon
	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
	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
	Charly	Fabrice	Jourdan Lucente	Short
2015	Courted	Michel Racine	Christian Vincent
	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
	The Emperor of Paris	Joseph Fouché	Jean-François Richet
2019	Joan of Arc	Charles VII of France	Bruno Dumont
	Alice and the Mayor	Paul Théraneau	Nicolas Pariser
	The Best Is Yet to Come	Arthur Dreyfus	Matthieu Delaporte & Alexandre de la Patellière
	The Mystery of Henri Pick	Jean-Michel Rouche	Rémi Bezançon
2023	La petite	Joseph Siprien	Guillaume Nicloux
	The Crime Is Mine	Gustave Rabusset	François Ozon
	Un homme heureux	Jean Leroy	Tristan Séguéla
2024	The Empire	Belzébuth	Bruno Dumont
	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
	Série noire	Kowal	Maurice Dugowson	TV series (1 episode)
1988	L'argent du mur	Bernd	Jean-François Delassus	TV movie
	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
	César Award for Best Actor		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		Nominated
2013	César Award for Best Actor	In the House	Nominated
	European Film Award for Best Actor		Nominated
2014	César Award for Best Actor	Bicycling with Molière	Nominated
	Globe de Cristal Award for Best Actor		Nominated
2015	Volpi Cup for Best Actor	Courted	Won
2016	César Award for Best Actor		Nominated
	Lumière Award for Best Actor		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
	Lumière Award for Best Actor	Alice and the Mayor	Nominated

References

1. "L'énigme Luchini" (in Italian). 25 September 2002. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
2. "LIVE: The winners of the 72nd Venice Film Festival". 12 September 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2015.

External links

• Fabrice Luchini at IMDb