Jalil Lespert

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Jalil Lespert
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Lespert in Nominee Luncheon for the 2015 César Awards
Born (1976-05-11) 11 May 1976 (age 47)
Paris, France
Occupation(s)Film director, actor, screenwriter
Years active1995–present

Jalil Lespert (born 11 May 1976) is a French actor, screenwriter and director. He has been described as "one of the best actors of his generation." [1]

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Early life and education

Lespert was born in Paris to a pied-noir father, actor Jean Lespert, and a Kabyle Algerian mother, [2] who is an attorney and a jurist, Lespert initially studied law to please his mother.

Career

Lespert made his film debut in 1995, in Laurent Cantet's film Jeux de plage , alongside his father. [3] His first major role came in 1999, in Jacques Maillot's film Our Happy Lives . The following year, he appeared in another Cantet film, Human Resources , which earned him a César Award for Most Promising Actor in 2001. [4]

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Jalil Lespert at the 2000 César Awards ceremony

Lespert's career took off and he appeared in several films, playing a wide range of characters, such as a sensual gardener in Sade , [5] a body builder addict in Vivre me tue , [1] a boxer in Virgil , [6] an pretentious artist in Alain Resnais's Not on the Lips , [7] and a journalist in Robert Guédiguian's The Last Mitterrand.

Lespert directed his first film in 2007, 24 mesures , featuring Benoît Magimel and Sami Bouajila. [8] His second feature as director, Headwinds (2011), featured Magimel alongside Audrey Tautou and Isabelle Carré. [9]

In 2010, he appeared in French television series Pigalle, la nuit . [10]

Personal life

In 2009, Lespert married Sonia Rolland, a former Miss France. The couple had one child named Kahina (born 2010), and separated in 2018. [11] He also has two other children, Jena and Aliosha, from a previous relationship. [12]

Selected filmography

As actor

As director and writer

Awards and accolades

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