External links
- Profilage's website on TF1 (in French)
- Profilage at IMDb
| Profilage | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Police procedural Psychological Thriller Drama |
| Created by | Fanny Robert |
| Starring | Juliette Roudet (seasons 4, 5, 6 [recurring] seasons 7-9 [main]) Philippe Bas (actor) (seasons 3-10) Raphaël Ferret Sophie de Fürst (seasons 6-8 [main] season 9 [guest]) Jean-Michel Martial Odile Vuillemin (seasons 1-6 [main] season 7 [guest]) Diane Dassigny (seasons 7-10) Vanessa Valence (seasons 1-5) Valérie Dashwood (seasons 3-10) Guillaume Cramoisan (seasons 1-2) |
| Music by | Alexandre Fortuit |
| Country of origin | France |
| No. of seasons | 10 |
| No. of episodes | 102 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Producer | Stéphane Marsil |
| Running time | about 50-55 minutes (about 1 hour) |
| Original release | |
| Release | April 23, 2009 – August 27, 2020 |
Profilage is a French television series created by Fanny Robert and Sophie Lebarbier and broadcast since April 23, 2009 on TF1. In Belgium, the series has been broadcast on RTBF since May 25, 2013. In the United States, the series is shown on PBS, beginning with Season 4. The name of the series is translated as "The Paris Murders," and "Profilage" Season 4 is designated as "The Paris Murders" Season 1.
The series relates the investigations of Chloé Saint-Laurent then Adèle Delettre, two psychologists specialized in criminology. Their exceptional experience and sensitivity allow them to decipher the state of mind of murderers as victims, thus enabling investigators from the 3rd Division of the Judicial Police (DPJ) in Paris to solve the most disturbing cases.
| Main cast | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actor/actress | Character | Seasons | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | |||
| Odile Vuillemin | Chloé Saint-Laurent | Main | Guest | ||||||||
| Guillaume Cramoisan | Matthieu Pérac | Main | Flashback | Flashback | Guest | ||||||
| Vanessa Valence | Fred Kancel | Main | Guest | Flashback | |||||||
| Raphaël Ferret | Hyppolite de Courtène | Main | |||||||||
| Jean-Michel Martial | Grégoire Lamarck | Main | |||||||||
| Didier Ferrari | Le doc | Main | |||||||||
| Guillaume de Tonquédec | Main | ||||||||||
| Laurence Cormerais | Delphine Pérac | Recurring | Main | ||||||||
| Marie Kremer | Louise Drancourt | Main | Mentioned | Guest | |||||||
| Philippe Bas | Thomas Rocher | Main | |||||||||
| Valérie Dashwood | Bérénice | Main | |||||||||
| Laurent Hennequin | Alexandre Hoffman | Main | Guest | ||||||||
| Benjamin Baroche | Antoine Garrel | Recurring | Main | Recurring | Mentioned | ||||||
| Éric Berger | Tobias Roze | Main | Mentioned | ||||||||
| Sophie de Fürst | Emma Tomasi | Main | Guest | ||||||||
| Juliette Roudet | Adèle Delettre | Guest | Recurring | Main | |||||||
| Julia Piaton Diane Dassigny | Jessica Kancel | Guest | Recurring | Guest | Main | ||||||
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