Denis Podalydès
{{Short description|French actor (born 1963)}}
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{{Infobox person
| image = Denis Podalydes Cannes 2018.jpg
| caption = Podalydès in 2018
| name = Denis Podalydès
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1963|4|22|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Versailles, France
| death_date =
| death_place =
| occupation = Actor, screenwriter, theatre director
| yearsactive = 1988–present
| relatives = Bruno Podalydès (brother)
}}
Denis Podalydès ({{IPA|fr|dəni pɔdalidɛs|lang}}; born 22 April 1963) is a French actor, scriptwriter, and theatre director of Greek descent.{{Cite web|title=Greek-French Actor Denis Podalydès Stars as Sarkozy in "La Conquête"|url=http://eu.greekreporter.com/2011/01/15/greek-french-actor-denis-podalydes-stars-as-sarkozy-in-la-conquete/|work=greekreporter.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110118061738/http://eu.greekreporter.com/2011/01/15/greek-french-actor-denis-podalydes-stars-as-sarkozy-in-la-conquete/|archive-date=18 January 2011|access-date=11 January 2011}} Podalydès has appeared in more than 140 films and television shows since 1989. He starred in The Officers' Ward, which was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.{{Cite web|title=Festival de Cannes: The Officers' Ward|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/1100087/year/2001.html|work=festival-cannes.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121008181236/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/1100087/year/2001.html|archive-date=8 October 2012|access-date=17 October 2009}}
Podalydès has been nominated for four César Awards: Best Supporting Actor for Summer Things, The Conquest, and Sorry Angel, and Best Original Screenplay for Granny's Funeral. He is the younger brother of filmmaker Bruno Podalydès, with whom he frequently collaborates.
Career
He is a former student of the Paris Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique, and became a pensionnaire of the Comédie-Française in 1997, and then a sociétaire in 2000, now considered as one of their major actors.[https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/revue-de-presse-culturelle-dantoine-guillot/du-rififi-au-francais Du rififi au Français, France Culture, Revue de presse culturelle 16 January 2012.][https://www.leparisien.fr/culture-loisirs/l-argent-fache-la-comedie-francaise-13-01-2012-1809207.php Le Parisien: L'argent fâche la Comédie Française (13 January 2012).] He became the 505th sociétaire on 1st January 2000.{{cite web|title=Denis Podalydès|url=http://www.comedie-francaise.fr/comedien.php?id=512&idcom=503|website=comedie-francaise.fr|access-date=11 August 2012|publication-date=}} Before joining that company he had appeared in Sophonisbe by Corneille (1988), L'Épreuve and Les Sincères by Marivaux (1989), La Double Inconstance by Marivaux and Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo (1990), Le Misanthrope by Molière, and Bérénice by Racine (1992), Les Fausses Confidences by Marivaux (1992), and Anatol by Arthur Schnitzler in 1995.
Director
From 2006, he began directing for the stage, with several classics: Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, then in 2008 Fantasio by Alfred de Musset.
In 2011, with Emmanuel Bourdieu and Éric Ruf, staged Le Cas Jekyll by Christine Montalbetti[http://www.theatre-contemporain.net/spectacles/Le-Cas-Jekyll-2eme-version/ Le Cas Jekyll] In 2012, he directed the opera Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.[https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2012/02/15/denis-podalydes-rend-justice-a-la-folie-de-donizetti_1643640_3246.html Denis Podalydès rend justice à la folie de Donizetti, Le Monde, 16 February 2012] In February 2013, he directed L'Homme qui se hait, by Emmanuel Bourdieu at the Théâtre national de Chaillot.[http://www.journal-laterrasse.fr/lhomme-qui-se-hait-theatre-national-de-chaillot-denis-podalydes-emmanuel-bourdieu/ L'Homme qui se hait, La Terrasse, No. 205, 18 December 2013]{{Cite web |url=http://theatre-chaillot.fr/theatre/denis-podalydes/l-homme-qui-se-hait |title=au Théâtre de Chaillot |access-date=8 July 2022 |archive-date=17 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121217044449/http://theatre-chaillot.fr/theatre/denis-podalydes/l-homme-qui-se-hait |url-status=dead }}
In the world of opera, Podalydès directed the 2017 production of Rossini's Le Comte Ory at the Opéra Comique, Paris, Blanmont, Nicholas. Report from Paris. Opera, March 2018, Vol.69 No.3, p296-7. and Falstaff at the Opéra de Lille conducted by Antonello Allemandi in May 2023.Feggetter, Graeme. Report from Lille. Opera, July 2023, Vol.74 No.7, p813-4.
Filmography
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Year
! Title ! Role ! Director ! Notes |
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1989
| Xenia | Matthieu | Patrice Vivancos | |
1991
| Mayrig | Tehlirian | |
rowspan=2| 1992
| Versailles Rive-Gauche | Arnaud | Short |
Mes fiançailles avec Hilda
| David | Eric Bitoun | Short |
rowspan=2| 1994
| Martin | |
Voilà
| Father | Short |
rowspan=3| 1995
| Human Resources director | |
Soigneurs dehors!
| Clément | Pascal Deux | Short |
La mal-aimée
| The young father | Bertrand Arthuys | TV movie |
rowspan=6| 1996
| Papapote | |
L'échappée belle
| Sanchez | Étienne Dhaene | |
Le journal du séducteur
| Accompanying male nurse | Danièle Dubroux | |
My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument
| Jean-Jacques | |
Je suis ton châtiment
| | Guillaume Bréaud | Short |
Le fou de la tour
| Daniel | TV movie |
rowspan=2| 1997
| La divine poursuite | Marc | |
Un point c'est tout
| The man | Linda Arzouni | Short |
rowspan=6| 1998
| En plein coeur | Martorel | |
The Perfect Guy
| Julien | Olivier Ducastel & Jacques Martineau | Étoiles d'Or - Best Male Newcomer |
Dieu seul me voit
| Albert | |
La mort du Chinois
| Gérard | |
À Venise
| Pierre | Short |
L'hypothèse rivale
| | Normand Bergeron | Short |
rowspan=3| 1999
| Martin | |
Children of the Century
| |
La voleuse de Saint-Lubin
| The lawyer | |
rowspan=4| 2000
| À l'attaque! | Yvan | |
Les frères Soeur
| Jacques Soeur | |
Comedy of Innocence
| Pierre | |
Les Misérables
| Scaufflaire | TV Mini-Seroes |
rowspan=6| 2001
| Liberté-Oléron | Jacques Monot | |
Mortel Transfert
| Inspector Chapireau | |
The Officers' Ward
| Henri | |
Malraux, tu m'étonnes!
| Titus | |
Candidature
| Jean Dupuis | Short |
Zaïde, un petit air de vengeance
| Thomas Meils | TV movie |
rowspan=3| 2002
| |
Summer Things
| Jérôme | Nominated - César Award for Best Supporting Actor |
Un monde presque paisible
| Charles | |
rowspan=4| 2003
| Vert paradis | Lucas | |
Une affaire qui roule
| Claude Carle | Eric Veniard | |
It's Easier for a Camel...
| Philippe | |
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
| |
rowspan=3| 2004
| Vipère au poing | The narrator | |
Le pont des Arts
| Guigui | |
Welcome to Switzerland
| Thierry | |
rowspan=4| 2005
| Caché | Yvon | |
Palais royal!
| Titi | |
Grey Souls
| Aimé Lafaille | |
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
| Joseph Rouletabille | |
rowspan=6| 2006
| Un an | Louis-Philippe | Laurent Boulanger | |
The Da Vinci Code
| Flight Controller | |
Le temps des porte-plumes
| Falmin | |
Que sont-ils devenus?
| The matador | Short |
Sartre, l'âge des passions
| TV movie |
Le Grand Charles
| TV Mini-Series |
rowspan=6| 2007
| Max & Co | Martin | Samuel & Frédéric Guillaume | |
La Vie d'artiste
| Bertrand | |
To Each His Own Cinema
| The manager | |
Le quatrième morceau de la femme coupée en trois
| Dominique | |
Crassus
| The narrator | Olivier Treiner | Short |
Le pendu
| Legoff | TV movie |
rowspan=10| 2008
| Sagan | Guy Schoeller | |
Coupable
| Louis | |
Intrusions
| Alexis Taget | |
Quiet Chaos
| Thierry | |
La Journée de la jupe
| Chief Labouret | |
Coluche: l'histoire d'un mec
| |
Figaro
| Figaro | TV movie |
Un crime très populaire
| Didier Grousset | TV movie |
Chez Maupassant
| Count of Sallure | Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe | TV series (1 episode) |
Hard
| Himself | Cathy Verney | TV series (3 episodes) |
rowspan=6| 2009
| 8 fois debout | Mathieu | Xabi Molia | |
Park Benches
| Aimé Mermot | |
Eleanor's Secret
| Dad | |
Neuilly Yo Mama!
| Stanislas de Chazelle | Gabriel Julien-Laferrière | |
Une affaire d'état
| Louis Flandin | Eric Valette | |
Rien de personnel
| Gilles Bergerol | Mathias Gokalp | |
rowspan=4| 2010
| Une exécution ordinaire | The concierge | |
Tandis qu'en bas des hommes en armes
| Montaigne | Samuel Rondière | Short |
L'illusion comique
| Matamore | TV movie |
George et Fanchette
| Agricol Thiercellin | Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe | TV movie |
rowspan=7| 2011
| Xavier Durringer | Nominated - César Award for Best Actor |
The First Man
| Professor Bernard | |
Omar Killed Me
| Pierre-Emmanuel Vaugrenard | |
La clé des champs
| The narrator | Claude Nuridsany & Marie Pérennou | |
Le grand restaurant II
| The rejected transvestite | Gérard Pullicino | TV movie |
Pasteur, l'homme qui a vu
| The narrator | Alain Brunard | TV movie |
Drumont, histoire d'un antisémite français
| TV movie |
rowspan=6| 2012
| The publisher | |
Camille Rewinds
| Alphonse Da Costa | |
Granny's Funeral
| Armand Lebrecq | Nominated - César Award for Best Original Screenplay |
Du vent dans mes mollets
| Michel Gladstein | Carine Tardieu | |
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
| Antoine d'Anthac | |
Ça ne peut pas continuer comme ça!
| Barry | TV movie |
rowspan=5| 2013
| Maurice | |
The Conquerors
| Gilead | Xabi Molia | |
The Big Bad Wolf
| Doctor Stanislas de Lastic | |
Love Is the Perfect Crime
| Richard | |
Meurtre en trois actes
| Philippe Laclanche | TV movie |
rowspan=5| 2014
| Libre et assoupi | Richard | Benjamin Guedj | |
Un village presque parfait
| Henri | Stéphane Meunier | |
La forêt
| Arkadi | TV movie |
Marie Curie, une femme sur le front
| The narrator | Alain Brunard | TV movie |
Casting(s)
| Himself | TV series (1 episode) |
2015
| Rémi | |
rowspan=5| 2016
| Chocolat | |
The Jews
| Talmudist #2 | |
La Mécanique de l'ombre
| Clément | |
Le passe-muraille
| Émile Dutilleul | Dante Desarthe | TV movie |
Dans la tête d'un juré
| The narrator | TV movie |
rowspan=5| 2017
| François Foucault | |
Marie-Francine
| Emmanuel Doublet | |
Mr. & Mrs. Adelman
| The shrink | |
See You Up There
| The minister | voice |
Paris etc
| Jacques Bernaud | TV series (5 episodes) |
rowspan=3| 2018
| Adalbert Proey-Minans | |
Sorry Angel
| Mathieu | Nominated - César Award for Best Supporting Actor |
Neuilly sa mère, sa mère!
| Stanislas de Chazelle | Gabriel Julien-Laferrière | |
rowspan=3| 2019
| François | |
An Officer and a Spy
| Maître Demange | |
Toute ressemblance
| Julien Demaistre | |
rowspan=2|2020
| Bertrand Pitorin | Benoît Delépine | |
French Tech
| | Bruno Podalydès | |
rowspan="4" | 2021
| Coach | |
Bloody Oranges
| Le ténor du Barreau | Jean-Christophe Meurisse | |
Anaïs in Love
| Daniel Moreau-Babin | Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet | |
Deception
| Philip | |
rowspan="6" | 2022
| Rise | Henri Gautier | |
Le Monde d'hier
| Franck L'Herbier | Diastème | |
Irma Vep
| Police Prefect | TV series (1 episode) |
La Grande Magie
| Charles Moufflet | |
Classico
| Président OM | Nathanaël Guedj and Adrien Piquet-Gauthier | |
Julia(s)
| Victor Massenet | Olivier Treiner | |
rowspan="5" | 2023
| Paul | |
L'établi
| Junot | Mathias Gokalp | |
Homecoming
| Marc | |
Bernadette
| Bernard Niquet | Léa Domenach | |
Making of
| Simon | |
2024
| La Petite Vadrouille | Albin | |
TBA
| style="background:#FFFFCC;"|Maigret in Society | Filming |
Theater
He was a Sociétaire of the Comédie-Française from 1997 to 2000.
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Year
! Title ! Author ! Director ! Notes |
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rowspan=2| 1988
| Sophonisbe | Brigitte Jaques-Wajeman | |
Scènes du répertoire
| Jean-Pierre Vincent | |
1989
| |
rowspan=2| 1990
| Ruy Blas | Nicolas Lormeau | |
Double Inconstancy
| Claudia Morin | |
rowspan=4| 1992
| Berenice | Christian Rist | |
La Veuve
| Christian Rist | |
Dîner de textes
| |
The Misanthrope
| Molière | Christian Rist | |
1993
| Christian Rist | |
1994
| Les Originaux | Voltaire | Christian Rist & Denis Podalydès | |
1995
| Anatol | |
1996
| André le Magnifique | Isabelle Candelier, Michel Vuillermoz, ... | Isabelle Candelier, Michel Vuillermoz, ... | |
rowspan=4| 1997
| Arcadia | |
Histoire du soldat
| |
Scapin the Schemer
| Molière | |
A Month in the Country
| Andreï Smirnoff | |
1998
| Le Legs | |
1999
| |
1999-2000 |
rowspan=2| 2000
| Molière | |
Tout mon possible
| Denis Podalydès | |
rowspan=2| 2001
| L'Âne et le Ruisseau | Nicolas Lormeau | |
Monsieur de Pourceaugnac
| Molière | |
rowspan=4| 2002
| Ruy Blas | Brigitte Jaques-Wajeman | |
Présences
| |
Je crois?
| Denis Podalydès | |
Lenz & Leonce and Lena
| Matthias Langhoff | |
2003-2004
| |
rowspan=2| 2004
| Platonov | Jacques Lassalle | |
The Bacchae
| |
rowspan=2| 2005
| The Liar | |
Oedipus Rex
| |
rowspan=2| 2007
| Brice Cauvin | |
Le Mental de l’équipe
| Denis Podalydès | |
rowspan=2| 2007-2008
| Jacques Lassalle | |
The Italian Straw Hat
| Eugène Marin Labiche & Marc-Michel | Jean-Baptiste Sastre | |
rowspan=3| 2008
| Fantasio | Denis Podalydès | |
Cyrano de Bergerac
| Denys Podalydès |
Figaro Gets a Divorce
| Jacques Lassalle | |
2009
| Galin Stoev | |
2009-2010
| La Grande Magie | Eduardo De Filippo | Dan Jemmett | |
2009-2012
| Molière | |
rowspan=2| 2010-2011
| Jean-Baptiste Sastre | |
Le Cas Jekyll
| Denis Podalydès | |
2011
| Le Babil des classes dangereuses | Valère Novarina | Denis Podalydès | |
2011-2012
| Ce que j'appelle oubli | Denis Podalydès | |
2012
| Anne-Laure Liégeois | |
2012-2013
| Rituals of Signs and Transformations | |
2013
| Hamlet | Dan Jemmett | |
2013-2014
| Molière | Claude Stratz | |
2014
| Betrayal | Frédéric Bélier-Garcia | |
2014-2015
| Répétition | |
rowspan=3| 2016
| Tartuffe | Molière | Galin Stoev | |
The Damned
| Nominated - Molière Award for Best Actor |
The Last Days of Mankind
| David Lescot | |
rowspan=2| 2017
| Bajazet | Éric Ruf | |
Une vie
| |
rowspan=3| 2019
| Nominated - Molière Award for Best Actor |
Electra-Oresteia
| |
Fanny and Alexander
| Julie Deliquet | |
References
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External links
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Category:Actors from Versailles
Category:Male actors from Île-de-France
Category:French people of Greek descent
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Category:20th-century French male actors
Category:21st-century French male actors
Category:French National Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni