Vincent Macaigne

Vincent Macaigne
Vincent Macaigne at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival
Born	(1978-10-19) 19 October 1978 (age 46) Paris, France
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]

Life and career

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 Lumière 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]

Filmography

As actor

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
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 – Lumière 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 – Lumière 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 – Lumière Award for Best Actor
2023	Bonnard, Pierre and Marthe	Pierre Bonnard	Martin Provost
2025	Cicadas	Phillip	Ina Weisse	It was screened in Panorama at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2025. [6]
	Arco	Dougie (voice)	Ugo Bienvenu

As filmmaker

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

References

1. Wilsher, Kim (21 September 2013). "France hails Vincent Macaigne as the new Gérard Depardieu". The Guardian .
2. "Vincent Macaigne". Canal+ . Archived from the original on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
3. "Vincent Macaigne, dynamite théâtrale". Le Monde . 19 June 2014.
4. "Vincent Macaigne, artiste gargantuesque". Télérama . February 2014.
5. "The 68th edition of the Locarno International Film Festival unveils its programme". Cineuropa. Archived from the original on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
6. Vassilis Economou (16 January 2025). "Diverse perspectives and limitless creativity abound in the Berlinale Panorama". Cineuropa . Retrieved 17 January 2025.

External links

• Vincent Macaigne at IMDb