Mathieu Amalric

Mathieu Amalric
Amalric in 2017
Born	(1965-10-25) 25 October 1965 (age 60) Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Occupations	Actor director screenwriter producer
Years active	1984–present
Children	3

Mathieu Amalric (French pronunciation: [matjøamalʁik] ^ⓘ ; born 25 October 1965) ^[1] is a French actor and filmmaker. He has won several César Awards and the Lumière Awards.

He is best known internationally for his roles in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace , in which he played the lead villain, Steven Spielberg's Munich , Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel and The French Dispatch , and for his lead performance in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly , for which he drew critical acclaim.

Early life

Amalric was born on 25 October 1965 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris. He is the son of Jacques Amalric, a French native who worked as a foreign affairs editor for Le Monde and Libération , and Nicole Zand, a literary critic for Le Monde , who was born in Poland to Jewish parents and moved to France at the outbreak of World War II. ^{[2] [3]}

Selected films

Amalric first gained fame in the film Ma Vie Sexuelle (My Sex Life...or How I Got Into an Argument), for which he won a César Award.

In 2007, he starred in the critically acclaimed movie The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, portraying Jean-Dominique Bauby, a journalist who learned to communicate through partner-assisted scanning after a stroke left him suffering from locked-in syndrome. ^[4] Amalric's performance was universally acclaimed, and he won the Cesar Award for Best Actor. ^[5]

He was selected to play the James Bond villain Dominic Greene alongside Daniel Craig (with whom he had previously starred in Munich ) in the 2008 film Quantum of Solace . ^[6]

His 2010 film, On Tour , premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and won Amalric the Best Director Award. ^[7]

The 2014 film The Blue Room , which he directed and starred in, was selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. ^[8]

Personal life

Amalric has three sons, two with French actress and singer Jeanne Balibar, and one with theater director and writer Stéphanie Cléau. ^[9] From 2019 - 2024 he was in a relationship with Canadian soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan. ^{[10] [11]}

He supports the Girondins de Bordeaux football club.

Filmography

As actor

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Favorites of the Moon	Julien
1991	Vert quoi vers où		Short
1992	The Sentinel	A medical student
	La Chasse aux papillons
1993	Les Yeux au plafond		Short; also director and screenwriter
1994	Lettre pour L...		Also assistant director
1995	Tom est tout seul	Un copain de Tom	Uncredited; also assistant director
1996	Le Journal du séducteur	Sebastien	Nominated—Acteurs à l'Écran for Best Actor
	My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument	Paul Dedalus	César Award for Most Promising Actor
1997	Genealogies of a Crime	Yves
1998	L'Interview	Julien	Short
	On a très peu d'amis	Ivan
	Dieu seul me voit (Versailles-Chantiers)	Atchoum
	Late August, Early September	Gabriel
	Alice and Martin	Benjamin Sauvagnac
1999	Trois ponts sur la rivière	Arthur Echéant
	Farewell, Home Sweet Home	Drinker at bar
2000	False Servant	Lélio
	La Bréche de Roland	Roland
	L'Affaire Marcorelle	Fourcade
2001	Boyhood Loves	Paul
	Zaïde, un petit air de vengeance	Luigi Scarofolo	Telefilm
2002	Lundi matin	Nicolas	Voice
	Les Naufragés de la D17	René
	Lulu	The advocate
	C'est le bouquet!	Stéphane
2003	A Man, a Real One	Boris
	Mes enfants ne sont pas comme les autres	Gérald
	Inquiétudes	Art teacher
2004	Cuadrilátero	C	Short
	Les Parallèles	Simon	Short
	Kings and Queen	Ismaël Vuillard	César Award for Best Actor Lumière Award for Best Actor
	Le Pont des Arts	Un spectateur du Nô
	Au large de Bad Ragaz	Alex
2005	I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed	Philippe Bernier
	Les Matines	Serge	Short
	The Moustache	Serge Schaeffer
	Munich	Louis	Nominated—National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor (2nd place) Nominated—New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor (2nd place)
	Comme James Dean	Robert Benchetrout	Short
	Avaler des couleuvres	Tom	Short
2006	Marie Antoinette	Man at Masked Ball
	When I Was a Singer	Bruno
	Les Signes	Man	Short
	Fragments sur la grâce	A reader
	Un lever de rideau	Pierre	Short
	Le Grand Appartement	Martin
2007	Michou d'Auber	Jacques
	Heartbeat Detector	Simon	Copenhagen International Film Festival - Best Actor Gijón International Film Festival - Best Actor Nominated—Globes de Cristal Award for Best Actor
	Actrices	Denis
	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	Jean-Dominique Bauby	César Award for Best Actor Étoiles d'Or for Best Best Actor Lumière Award for Best Actor Nominated—Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor Nominated—Globes de Cristal Award for Best Actor
	L'Histoire de Richard O.	Richard O.
	A Secret	François Grimbert à 37 ans
2008	57000 km entre nous	Simon
	A Christmas Tale	Henri
	On War	Bertrand
	Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One	François Besse	Nominated—Globes de Cristal Award for Best Actor
	Quantum of Solace	Dominic Greene
2009	Park Benches	The father in pram
	Face	Man in bushes
	Happy End	Robinson
	Wild Grass	Bernard de Bordeaux
2010	The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec	Dieuleveult
	On Tour	Joachim Zand	Also director and screenwriter RiverRun International Film Festival - Best Actor
	The Rabbi's Cat	Le prince	Voice
	The Silence of Joan	The Preacher
	La Chanson du dimanche	Danny Monaco	TV series
2011	Chicken with Plums	Nasser-Ali
2012	You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet!	Himself
	Cosmopolis	André Petrescu
	Camille Rewinds	French teacher
	Le Reste du monde	Paul	Telefilm
	Les Gouffres	Georges
	Lines of Wellington	Barão Marbot
2013	Venus in Fur	Thomas	Nominated—César Award for Best Actor
	Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian	George Devereux
	Love Is the Perfect Crime	Marc
	Les Anonymes	Roger Marion	Telefilm
	The Dune	Moreau
	Petit matin	Patrick	Short
2014	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Serge X	Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cast Nominated—Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble Nominated—San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Performance by an Ensemble Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated—Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble
	If You Don't, I Will	Pierre
	The Blue Room	Julien Gahyde	Also director and screenwriter
	Bird People	The narrator	Voice
	Les Jours venus	Participant scène de l'enterrement
2015	Wolf Hall	Eustace Chapuys	TV miniseries
	The Forbidden Room	Thadeusz M____ / Ostler
	My Golden Days	Paul (adult)
	Families	Jérôme Varenne
	The Very Private Life of Mister Sim	Samuel
	Winter Song	Bâtisseur
	D'ombres et d'ailes		Short; voice
	Spectrographies	The filmmaker
	Hitchcock/Truffaut	Narrator
2016	Le Cancre	Boris
	Spiritismes
	Le Fils de Joseph	Oscar Pormenor
	La Loi de la jungle	Galgaric
	Daguerrotype	Vincent
	Never Ever	Rey
	Demain et tous les autres jours	Le père
2017	Espèces menacées
	Barbara	Yves Zand	Also director and screenwriter
	Ismael's Ghosts	Ismaël Vuillard
2018	Sink or Swim	Bertrand
	At Eternity's Gate	Dr. Paul Gachet
2018–2020	The Bureau	JJA	TV series
2019	Sound of Metal	Richard Berger
2019	An Officer and a Spy	Alphonse Bertillon	[12]
2021	The French Dispatch	The Commissaire
	Mother Schmuckers	The father
	Oxygen	M.I.L.O.
	Tralala	Tralala/Pat Rivière
2023	A Prince (Un prince)	Narrator
	A Difficult Year (Une année difficile)	Henri
	Mars Express	Chris Royjacker	Voice
2024	Serpent's Path	Laval
2025	The Phoenician Scheme	Marseille Bob
	Vie privée
	Nino	Man at public baths

As filmmaker

Year	Title	Credited as			Notes
		Director	Screenwriter	Other
1985	Marre de café	Yes	Yes		Short
1986	La Seule différence c'est que les cafés sont plus chers	Yes			Short
1987	Au revoir les enfants			Yes	Third assistant director
1990	La Passion Van Gogh			Yes	Assistant director and assistant editor
1990	Sans rires	Yes	Yes		Short
1992	Border Line			Yes	Second assistant director
1992	The Absence			Yes	Assistant director
1993	Les Yeux au plafond	Yes	Yes		Short
1993	8 bis	Yes	Yes		Short
1993	The Diary of Lady M			Yes	Assistant director
1993	Lettre pour L...			Yes	Assistant director
1994	Bête de scène			Yes	Short; assistant director
1995	Tom est tout seul			Yes	Assistant director
1997	Mange ta soupe	Yes	Yes
2001	The Wimbledon Stadium	Yes	Yes
2003	La Chose publique	Yes	Yes		Telefilm
2003	Malus	Yes	Yes		Documentary short
2004	14,58 euros	Yes	Yes		Short
2007	Deux cages sans oiseaux	Yes	Yes		Short
2007	À l'instar du Père Noël et de la pizza	Yes	Yes		Short
2007	Laissez-les grandir ici	Yes			Documentary short
2010	On Tour	Yes	Yes		Cannes Film Festival - Best Director Cannes Film Festival - FIPRESCI Prize Nominated—César Award for Best Director Nominated—César Award for Best Original Screenplay Nominated—Globes de Cristal Award for Best Film Nominated—Gopo Award for Best European Film Nominated—Lumière Award for Best Director
2010	Joann Sfar (dessins)	Yes		Yes	Documentary short; also cinematographer
2010	The Screen Illusion	Yes	Yes		Telefilm
2012	Next to Last (automne 63)	Yes	Yes		Short
2012	La Richesse du loup			Yes	Co-producer
2014	La Magie de Noël	Yes			Short
2014	The Blue Room	Yes	Yes		Mar del Plata Film Festival - Best Director Nominated—Cannes Film Festival - Prix Un certain regard Nominated—César Award for Best Adaptation
2015	C'est presque au bout du monde	Yes			Short
2017	Barbara	Yes	Yes		Prix Louis-Delluc 2017
2021	Hold Me Tight	Yes	Yes

References

1. "Amalric, Mathieu". Current Biography Yearbook 2011. Ipswich, MA: H.W. Wilson. 2011. pp.  15–18. ISBN   9780824211219.
2. Day, Elizabeth (11 May 2008). "The intellectual villain". Guardian. Retrieved 11 May 2008.
3. Friedman, Roger (16 November 2007). "Jerry Maguire (aka Tom Cruise) in Hitler Murder Attempt". FOXNews.com. Archived from the original on 23 January 2013. Retrieved 9 January 2008.
4. Ebert, Roger (20 December 2007). "An indomitable will to communicate". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
5. "César Awards 2008 : The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, nominations and wins". lescesarsducinema.com. Archived from the original on 12 April 2010. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
6. Hammond, Wally (14 May 2008). "Mathieu Amalric on 'Heartbeat Detector'". Time Out . Archived from the original on 23 February 2010. Retrieved 14 May 2008.
7. "Hollywood Reporter: Cannes Lineup". hollywoodreporter. Archived from the original on 22 April 2010. Retrieved 15 April 2010.
8. "2014 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
9. "Mathieu Amalric : Biographie et actualités". Gala (in French). Retrieved 20 April 2025.
10. Barone, Joshua (11 October 2019). "The Unsingable Music That Stumped a Diva". The New York Times.
11. Apthorp, Shirley (31 May 2019). "Soprano Barbara Hannigan: 'I like the alchemy of the rehearsal room'". Financial Times.
12. "An Officer and a Spy". Crew United. Retrieved 23 June 2023.

External links

• Mathieu Amalric at IMDb