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| Born | Melvil Matthias Julien Poupaud 26 January 1973 Paris, France |
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| Years active | 1983–present |
| Spouse | Georgina Tacou (m. 1999,divorced) |
| Children | 1 |
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Melvil Matthias Julien Poupaud (born 26 January 1973) is a French actor.
Poupaud was born in Paris, the son of Michel Poupaud and publicist Chantal Poupaud. He has an elder brother, Yarol, who is a musician.
Poupaud made his film debut at the age of 10 in Raúl Ruiz's City of Pirates (1983), whom he met through his mother. [1] He subsequently appeared in nine more of Ruiz's films, including The Insomniac on the Bridge (1985), Treasure Island (1986), Genealogies of a Crime (1997), Time Regained (1999) and Love Torn in a Dream (2000). [2] For his roles in Jacques Doillon's The 15 Year Old Girl (1989) and Laurence Ferreira Barbosa's Normal People Are Nothing Exceptional (1993), Poupaud received two nominations for the César Award for Most Promising Actor.
He starred in François Ozon's Time to Leave , [3] and co-starred with Parker Posey in Zoe Cassavetes' Broken English . [4]
He also appeared in films such as Eric Rohmer's A Summer's Tale , [5] Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale , [6] and François Ozon's The Refuge . [7]
He co-starred with Suzanne Clément in Xavier Dolan's Laurence Anyways . [8]
Poupaud dated actress Chiara Mastroianni for four years from the age of 16 to 20. [9] Though the two split up they remained friends and collaborators for decades with Mastroianni crediting Poupaud with encouraging her to pursue acting as a career and Poupaud crediting Mastroianni for his friendship with her ex-husband Benjamin Biolay. [10]
Poupaud was previously married to writer Georgina Tacou, with whom he has a daughter. [11]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | City of Pirates | Malo | |
| 1984 | Qui es-tu Johnny Mac ? | Johnny Mac | Short (also as director and screenwriter) |
| 1985 | Treasure Island | Jim Hawkins | |
| The Insomniac on the Bridge | Michel | ||
| Ces jours où les remords font vraiment mal au cœur | The boy | Short (also as director and screenwriter) | |
| 1986 | Dans un miroir | ||
| 1988 | 3 jours... | Melvil | Short (also as director and screenwriter) |
| 1989 | The 15 Year Old Girl | Thomas | Nominated - César Award for Most Promising Actor |
| 1992 | Archipel | Michel | |
| The Lover | The Younger Brother | ||
| 1993 | À la belle étoile | Mathieu | |
| Les gens normaux n'ont rien d'exceptionnel | Germain | Also as composer Nominated - César Award for Most Promising Actor | |
| 1994 | Fado majeur et mineur | Antoine | |
| Boulevard Mac Donald | Short (also as director, screenwriter and composer) | ||
| 1995 | Élisa | Pharmacist's Son | |
| Innocent Lies | Louis Bernard | ||
| Those Were the Days | Axel | ||
| Hillbilly Chainsaw Massacre | Short | ||
| La Vie de Marianne | Valville | TV movie | |
| 3000 scénarios contre un virus | TV series (1 episode) | ||
| 1996 | Souvenir | Charles | |
| A Summer's Tale | Gaspard | ||
| Le journal du séducteur | Gregoire | ||
| Three Lives and Only One Death | Martin | ||
| 1997 | Marianne | Valville | |
| Le ciel est à nous | Lenny | ||
| Genealogies of a Crime | René | ||
| 1998 | Les kidnappeurs | Armand Carpentier | |
| 1999 | Time Regained | Prince de Foix | |
| Quelque chose | The man | Short (also as director, screenwriter and cinematographer) | |
| 2000 | A Raiz do Coração | Vicente Corvo | |
| La Chambre obscure | Bertrand | ||
| Love Torn in a Dream | Paul | ||
| 2001 | A Hell of a Day | Ben | |
| Rémi | Rémi | Short (also as director and screenwriter) | |
| 2003 | Feelings | François | |
| Le Divorce | Charles-Henri de Persand | ||
| Shimkent hôtel | Alex | ||
| Pronobis | Philippe | Short (also as director and screenwriter) | |
| 2004 | Eros thérapie | Bruno | |
| Monde extérieur | Régis | Short | |
| Qui a tué Johnny Mac ? | Johnny Mac | Short (also as director, screenwriter and cinematographer) | |
| 2005 | Time to Leave | Romain | Valladolid International Film Festival - Best Actor |
| 2006 | Melvil | Melvil | Also as director, screenwriter, cinematographer and editor |
| 2007 | A Lost Man | Thomas Koré | |
| Towards Zero | Guillaume Neuville | ||
| Broken English | Julien | ||
| 2008 | The Broken | Stefan Chambers | |
| Speed Racer | Johnny 'Goodboy' Jones | ||
| A Christmas Tale | Ivan Vuillard | ||
| Crime Is Our Business | Frédéric Charpentier | ||
| 2009 | The Refuge | Louis | |
| Lucky Luke | Jesse James | ||
| 44 Inch Chest | Loverboy | San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Performance by an Ensemble | |
| 2010 | La lisière | François | |
| Black Heaven | Vincent | ||
| Mysteries of Lisbon | Colonel Ernesto Lacroze | ||
| The Counterfeiters | Edouard | TV movie | |
| 2011 | L'orpheline avec en plus un bras en moins | Robinson | |
| The Argument | Man | Short | |
| 2012 | Laurence Anyways | Laurence Alia | Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival - Best Actor Nominated - Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor Nominated - Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor in a Canadian Film |
| Lines of Wellington | Marechal Massena | ||
| 2014 | Fidelio: Alice's Odyssey | Gaël | |
| 2015 | Mad Love | The Priest | |
| Face Down | Samy | ||
| By the Sea | François | ||
| The Great Game | Pierre Blum | ||
| 2016 | In Bed with Victoria | Vincent Kossarski | Nominated — César Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 2017 | The Lady in the Portrait | Jean Denis Attiret | |
| La pimbêche à vélo | Melvil | Short | |
| 2018 | La belle et la belle | Marc | |
| By the Grace of God | Alexandre Guérin | Nominated — César Award for Best Actor | |
| Les grands squelettes | |||
| Insoupçonnable | Paul Brodsky | TV series (10 episodes) Nominated - ACS Award for Best Actor | |
| 2019 | Golden Youth | Hubert Robert | |
| J'accuse | Maître Labori | ||
| 2020 | Summer of 85 | M. Lefèvre | |
| 2021–2022 | UFOs | Didier Mathure | TV series (24 episodes) ACS Award for Best Actor (2021) Nominated - ACS Award for Best Actor (2022) |
| 2022 | Brother and Sister | Louis [12] | |
| 2022 | One Fine Morning | Clément | |
| 2023 | Jeanne du Barry | Le Comte du Barry | |
| Just the Two of Us | Grégoire | ||
| Coup de chance |
| Year | Title | Credited as | Notes | ||
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| Director | Writer | Cinematographer | |||
| 1984 | Qui es-tu Johnny Mac ? | Yes | Yes | No | Short |
| 1985 | Ces jours où les remords font vraiment mal au cœur | Yes | Yes | No | Short |
| 1988 | 3 jours… | Yes | Yes | No | Short |
| 1994 | Boulevard Mac Donald | Yes | Yes | No | Short (also as composer) |
| 1999 | Quelque chose | Yes | Yes | Yes | Short |
| 2001 | Rémi | Yes | Yes | No | Short |
| 2003 | Pronobis | Yes | Yes | No | Short |
| 2004 | Qui a tué Johnny Mac ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Short |
| 2006 | Melvil | Yes | Yes | Yes | Also as editor |
Melvil Poupaud, Quel est Mon noM, Paris, Éditions Stock, coll. « La Bleue », 7 septembre 2011, 288 p. ( ISBN 978-2-23407-030-1). [13]
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A Christmas Tale is a 2008 French Christmas comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Arnaud Desplechin, starring Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Mathieu Amalric, Anne Consigny, Melvil Poupaud, Emmanuelle Devos and Chiara Mastroianni. It tells the story of a family with strained relationships which gathers at the parents' home for Christmas, having just learned that their mother has leukemia. It was in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.
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Crime Is Our Business is a 2008 French comedy mystery film directed by Pascal Thomas and starring Catherine Frot, André Dussollier and Claude Rich. It is based on the 1957 Agatha Christie novel 4.50 from Paddington.
Making Plans for Lena is a 2009 French drama film directed by Christophe Honoré, who co-wrote the screenplay with Geneviève Brisac. It stars Chiara Mastroianni, Marina Foïs, Marie-Christine Barrault, and Jean-Marc Barr. It was released on 2 September 2009 in France.
Towards Zero is a 2007 French mystery film directed by Pascal Thomas and starring François Morel, Danielle Darrieux and Melvil Poupaud. It is an adaptation of the 1944 novel Towards Zero by Agatha Christie.
Laurence Anyways is a 2012 Canadian epic romantic drama film written, directed and edited by Xavier Dolan. The film competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival where Suzanne Clément won the Un Certain Regard Award for Best Actress. Laurence Anyways also won the Queer Palm Award at the festival.
Lines of Wellington is a 2012 Franco-Portuguese epic war film and television series prepared by Chilean director Raúl Ruiz and completed by his widow Valeria Sarmiento. Its title refers to the historical Lines of Torres Vedras.
Love Torn in a Dream is a 2000 metafictional film directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz. The film's nonlinear narrative spans nine interweaving stories, most of which take place in the 17th or 18th century and feature fantastical characters such as pirates, nuns, young priests, a cannibal, a sultana, the Devil, and many more. To further complicate the already dizzying web of tales, many different characters are played by the same handful of actors across stories. This theme of the same individual portraying numerous identities extends beyond the limits of this one film and can be viewed in the larger context of Ruiz's work: for instance, lead actor Melvil Poupaud has been in several of Ruiz's films since his childhood. In 1983, at the age of ten, he starred in Ruiz's City of Pirates and went on to act in The Insomniac on the Bridge (1985), Treasure Island (1985), Three Lives and Only One Death (1996), Genealogies of a Crime (1997) and Mysteries of Lisbon (2010).
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By the Grace of God is a 2019 French-Belgian drama film directed by François Ozon. The film stars Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet and Swann Arlaud as three victims of a Catholic priest's abuse, who are set to expose the sexual abuse hidden by the Catholic Church.
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Brother and Sister is a 2022 French drama film directed by Arnaud Desplechin, starring Marion Cotillard and Melvil Poupaud as estranged siblings who are forced to reunite after two decades following the death of their parents. The film made its world premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival where it competed for the Palme d'Or, and was released in theaters in France on the same day as its Cannes premiere, on 20 May 2022.
Marcello Mio is an upcoming 2024 French-Italian comedy film written and directed by Christophe Honoré. In the film, actress Chiara Mastroianni confronts living in the shadow of her real-life father Marcello Mastroianni's legacy. She portrays a version of herself alongside her real-life mother, French actress Catherine Deneuve. Several other actors support the cast and play versions of themselves as well, including Fabrice Luchini, Benjamin Biolay, Nicole Garcia and Melvil Poupaud.
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