Éric Elmosnino

{{Short description|French actor and musician}}

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| name = Éric Elmosnino

| image = Eric Elmosnino 2015.jpg

| caption = Elmosnino in 2015

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1964|05|02}}

| birth_place = Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France

| occupation = {{flatlist|

• Actor
• musician

}}

| spouse =

| years_active = 1985–present

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Éric Elmosnino (born 2 May 1964) is a French actor and musician.{{Cite web|url=http://en.unifrance.org/directories/person/134006/eric-elmosnino|title=Éric Elmosnino|accessdate=22 June 2017|publisher=unifrance.org}} He is known internationally for portraying Serge Gainsbourg in Gainsbourg, for which he won the César Award for Best Actor.{{cite web|url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/images/eric_elmosnino_stars_womanizing_serge_gainsbourg_joann_sfar_production_laetitia_casta|title=Jewish Week Éric Elmosnino, stars as womanizing Serge Gainsbourg in a Joann Sfar production, with Laetitia Casta portraying Brigitte Bardot|publisher=Thejewishweek.com|accessdate=22 June 2017}}

He studied at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art. After leaving the Conservatory, he worked at the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers with Jean-Pierre Vincent.{{cn|date=July 2017}}

In 1992 he played Christian Ribet, a friend of Guillaume de Tonquédec, in the film Tableau d'honneur (Honour Roll) by Charles Nemes. In 2006, he played in the theater as Edward Bond, directed by Alain Francon, at the Avignon Festival and the Théâtre de la Colline in Paris. In January 2008, he performed in a show at the Theatre Antoine in Paris for Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage.{{cn|date=July 2017}}