Vincent Macaigne | |
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 Vincent Macaigne in 2014 | |
| Born | 19 October 1978 |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, Theatre director, Screenwriter, Film director, Playwright |
| Years active | 1998–present |
Vincent Macaigne (born 19 October 1978) is a French actor, theatre director and film director. He is also a screenwriter and playwright. [1]
Macaigne was raised in Paris, the son of a French businessman and an Iranian-born painter. He has an elder brother, who is a forensic doctor. [1] He attended the CNSAD between 1999 and 2002, and staged his first play in 2004. Throughout the 2000s, he acted in several theatre productions and also wrote and staged a number of plays. [2] He suffered two strokes at just thirty years old, one of which occurred after his 2009 staging of the theatrical adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot . In an interview, he said the stroke has had no lasting consequences to his health. [1] [3] [4]
His short film What We'll Leave Behind (Ce qu'il restera de nous) won the Grand Prix at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, and was nominated for the César Award for Best Short Film.
In 2014, he received nominations for the César Award for Most Promising Actor and the Lumières Award for Best Male Revelation for his role in La Fille du 14 juillet.
His directorial feature film debut, Dom Juan, is an adaptation of the play of the same name by Molière. It was screened in the Cineasts of the Present section at the 2015 Locarno International Film Festival. [5]
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
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| 1998 | Jeanne et le loup | Cyril | Laurent Jaoui | TV movie |
| 2001 | Replay | Henri | Catherine Corsini | |
| 2002 | Le doux amour des hommes | The server | Jean-Paul Civeyrac | |
| 2004 | Quand je serai star | The actor | Patrick Mimouni | |
| 2007 | 24 mesures | The internal | Jalil Lespert | |
| 2008 | On War | Bertrand Bonello | ||
| Le jour où Ségolène a gagné | The Belgian | Nicolas Pariser | short | |
| Écrire pour un chanteur | Guilhem Amesland | TV series (1 episode) | ||
| 2009 | Le naufragé | Sylvain | Guillaume Brac | short |
| 2011 | A Burning Hot Summer | Achille | Philippe Garrel | |
| Rives | Unhappy Customer | Armel Hostiou | ||
| La règle de trois | Vincent | Louis Garrel | short | |
| Un monde sans femmes | Sylvain | Guillaume Brac | short | |
| Moonlight Lover | Vincent | Guilhem Amesland | short | |
| I'm Your Man | Bruno | Keren Ben Rafael | short | |
| Goldman | Victor | Christophe Blanc | TV movie | |
| 2012 | Crazy Pink Limo | The former lover | Joséphine de Meaux | short |
| Le monde à l'envers | Thierry | Sylvain Desclous | short | |
| À l'ombre du palmier | The tourist | Bruno Veniard | short | |
| 2013 | The Rendez-Vous of Déjà-Vu | Pator | Antonin Peretjatko | Nominated – César Award for Most Promising Actor Nominated – Lumières Award for Best Male Revelation |
| Age of Panic | Vincent | Justine Triet | Mar del Plata International Film Festival – Best Actor Étoiles d'Or – Best Male Newcomer | |
| 2 Autumns, 3 Winters | Arman | Sébastien Betbeder | ||
| Tonnerre | Maxime | Guillaume Brac | Bombay International Film Festival – Best Actor | |
| Kingston Avenue | Vincent | Armel Hostiou | short | |
| Les lézards | Léon | Vincent Mariette | short | |
| 2014 | Eden | Arnaud | Mia Hansen-Løve | |
| Fool Circle | Bruno Camus | Vincent Mariette | ||
| Truffaut au présent | Axelle Ropert | TV miniseries | ||
| 2015 | Two Friends | Clément | Louis Garrel | Nominated – Lumières Award for Best Actor |
| Une histoire américaine | Vincent | Armel Hostiou | ||
| Le repas dominical | Jean | Céline Devaux | short | |
| 2016 | Agnus Dei | Samuel | Anne Fontaine | |
| News from Planet Mars | Jérôme | Dominik Moll | ||
| La Loi de la jungle | Marc Châtaigne | Antonin Peretjatko | ||
| Les philosophes | Guilhem Amesland | |||
| 2017 | C'est la vie! | Julien | Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache | |
| 2018 | Doubles vies | Léonard Spiegel | Olivier Assayas | |
| 2020 | Les Choses qu'on dit, les choses qu'on fait | François | Emmanuel Mouret | |
| 2021 | The Night Doctor (Médecin de nuit) | Mikaël | Élie Wajeman | |
| Dear Mother | Michel Verdoux | Laurent Lafitte | ||
| Love Songs for Tough Guys (Cette musique ne joue pour personne) | Eric Lamb | Samuel Benchetrit | ||
| 2022 | Irma Vep | René Vidal / Louis Feuillade | Olivier Assayas | TV miniseries |
| En même temps | Pascal Molitor | Benoit Delépine & Gustave Kervern | ||
| Diary of a Fleeting Affair | Simon | Emmanuel Mouret | Nominated – César Award for Best Actor Nominated – Lumières Award for Best Actor | |
| 2023 | Bonnard, Pierre and Marthe | Pierre Bonnard | Martin Provost |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Ce qu'il restera de nous | Director, writer, cinematographer & editor | Short Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival - Grand Prix Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival - Press Award Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival - Special Mention of the Youth Jury Nominated - César Award for Best Short Film |
| 2013 | Kingston Avenue | Co-writer | Short directed by Armel Hostiou |
| Mille pattes et crapaud | Animator | Short directed by Anna Khlmelevskaya | |
| 2015 | Dom Juan | Director | Nominated - Locarno International Film Festival - Nescens Prize |
| Une histoire américaine | Writer | Directed by Armel Hostiou | |
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