Finnegan Oldfield | |
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Born | Lewes, England | 10 January 1991
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 2003–present |
Finnegan Oldfield (born 10 January 1991) is a French-British actor, [1] who has appeared in more than thirty films since 2003.
Finnegan Oldfield was born in 1991 in Lewes, United Kingdom. His mother is French and father English.[ citation needed ]
In 2005, age 14, Oldfield landed the lead role in the TV film L'Île Atlantique . [2] He dropped out of school at the age of 15. [3]
Oldfield received a César nomination in 2016 for Les Cowboys and in 2018 for Reinventing Marvin .[ citation needed ]
Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
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2003 | L'île atlantique | Jean-Baptiste Seignelet | Gérard Mordillat | TV movie |
2005 | P.J. | Lionel | Gérard Vergez | TV series (1 episode) |
2007 | La commune | François Lazare | Philippe Triboit | TV series (3 episodes) |
2008 | Behind the Walls | The beggar | Christian Faure | |
2010 | Spiral | Dylan | Jean-Marc Brondolo | TV series (5 episodes) |
2011 | Nobody Else But You | Richi | Gérald Hustache-Mathieu | |
Mineurs 27 | Stanislas Casarelli | Tristan Aurouet | ||
Johnny | Johnny | Bruno Ballouard | Short | |
2012 | Calm at Sea | Gilbert Brustlein | Volker Schlöndorff | |
It's Not a Cowboy Movie (Ce n'est pas un film de cow-boys) | Vincent | Benjamin Parent | Short Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival - Best Actor | |
2013 | The Marchers | Radio Host | Nabil Ben Yadir | |
Trucs de gosse | Matthieu | Émilie Noblet | Short | |
Le quepa sur la vilni ! | Tarzan | Yann Le Quellec | Short | |
Désolée pour hier soir | Jeremy | Hortense Gélinet | Short | |
2014 | Geronimo | Nikis Scorpion | Tony Gatlif | |
Weekends in Normandy | Erwan | Anne Villacèque | ||
Lili Rose | The pump attendant | Bruno Ballouard | ||
À toute épreuve | Lebars | Antoine Blossier | ||
Mademoiselle | Young man | Guillaume Gouix | Short | |
Panda | The boy | Anthony Lapia | Short | |
La traversée | Lucas | Thibaut Wohlfahrt | Short | |
Ce monde ancien | Vincent | Idir Serghine | Short | |
La grenouille et Dieu | The boy | Alice Furtado | Short | |
Ceux qui dansent sur la tête | Frenzy | Magaly Richard-Serrano | TV movie | |
Braquo | Young robber | Frédéric Jardin | TV series (1 episode) | |
2015 | Les Cowboys | Georges Balland | Thomas Bidegain | Nominated - César Award for Most Promising Actor |
The Wakhan Front | Patrick Mercier | Clément Cogitore | ||
2016 | Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) | Alex | Eva Husson | Nominated - Lumières Award for Most Promising Actor |
Nocturama | David | Bertrand Bonello | ||
Heal the Living | Maxime | Katell Quillévéré | ||
A Woman's Life | Paul de Lamare | Stéphane Brizé | ||
Demain si j'y suis | Chantal | Émilie Noblet | TV series (1 episode) | |
2017 | Reinventing Marvin | Marvin Bijoux | Anne Fontaine | Nominated - César Award for Most Promising Actor Nominated - Lumières Award for Most Promising Actor |
Promise at Dawn | Capitaine Langer | Éric Barbier | ||
2018 | Le poulain | Arnaud Jaurès | Mathieu Sapin | |
Cross | Mokrane | Idir Serghine | Short | |
2019 | Exfiltrés | Gabriel | Emmanuel Hamon | |
2020 | Selfie | Thomas Bidegain | Post-Production | |
Free Like Air | Vincent | Abdolreza Kahani | Pre-Production | |
Gagarine | Dali | Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh | [4] | |
2021 | Gone for Good (Disparu à jamais) | Guillaume Lucchesi | Juan Carlos Medina | TV series (5 episodes) |
2022 | Corsage | Louis Le Prince | Marie Kreutzer |
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