Fabrice Luchini
{{short description|French stage and film actor (born 1951)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2022}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Fabrice Luchini
| image = Fabrice Luchini Cannes 2016.jpg
| caption = Luchini at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival
| birthname = Robert Luchini
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1951|11|1}}
| birth_place = Paris, France
| othername =
| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 1969–present
}}
Fabrice Luchini ({{IPA|fr|fabʁis lykini}}; born Robert Luchini; 1 November 1951) is a French stage and film actor. He has appeared in films such as Potiche, The Women on the 6th Floor, and In the House.
Life and career
Fabrice Luchini was born in Paris, into an Italian immigrant family from Assisi{{cite web|language=it |url=http://www.lexpress.fr/culture/scene/l-enigme-luchini_498015.html |title=L'énigme Luchini |date=25 September 2002 |access-date=2015-05-27}} who were greengrocers. He grew up around the neighbourhood of Goutte d'Or in Paris's 18th arrondissement. When he was 13, his mother apprenticed him to a hairdresser in a trendy parlour in Avenue Matignon, where he would take the name of the hairdresser's son, Fabrice, in place of his real name, Robert.
His first film role was in Tout peut arriver in 1969, directed by Philippe Labro. He then appeared in Éric Rohmer's Le Genou de Claire in 1970 playing a small role as an adolescent. He went on to appear in Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois and Les Nuits de la pleine lune, and also in films directed by Walerian Borowczyk, Nagisa Oshima, Claude Chabrol, Claude Lelouch, Cedric Klapisch and Édouard Molinaro. In 1990 he appeared in Christian Vincent's La Discrète.
For his role in the 2015 film Courted he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival.{{cite web|title=LIVE: The winners of the 72nd Venice Film Festival| date=12 September 2015 |url=http://cineuropa.org/nw.aspx?t=newsdetail&did=298479|access-date=12 September 2015}}
Filmography
= Cinema =
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Director ! Notes |
|---|
| 1969
| Tout peut arriver | Fabrice | |
| 1970
| Vincent | |
| 1973
| Valparaiso, Valparaiso | | Pascal Aubier | |
| 1974
| André | |
| 1975
| Ne | Fabrice | Jacques Richard | |
| rowspan=2| 1976
| Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre) | Vincent Vergne | Pierre Zucca | |
| Les écrans déchirés
| Fabrice | Jacques Richard | Short |
| 1978
| Camus | |
| 1979
| Perceval | |
| 1980
| Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme | Arthur | Jean-Louis Daniel | |
| rowspan=2| 1981
| Mercillat | |
| La forêt désenchantée
| | Jacques Robiolles | Short |
| rowspan=2| 1982
| T'es folle ou quoi ? | Jean-François Sevran | Michel Gérard | |
| Jimmy Jazz
| Fabrice | Laurent Perrin | Short |
| rowspan=2| 1983
| Zig Zag Story | Bob Hemler | Patrick Schulmann | |
| Il ne faut jurer de rien
| Fabrice | Short |
| rowspan=2| 1984
| Oswaldo | Francis Leroi & Iris Letans | |
| Full Moon in Paris
| Octave | |
| rowspan=2| 1985
| Profs | Michel | Patrick Schulmann | |
| Rouge-gorge
| Frédéric | Pierre Zucca | |
| rowspan=3| 1986
| The shady lawyer | |
| Max, Mon Amour
| Nicolas | |
| Triple sec
| | Yves Thomas | Short |
| rowspan=3| 1987
| Arthur | |
| Les oreilles entre les dents
| Luc Fabri | Patrick Schulmann | |
| Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
| The art dealer | |
| rowspan=2| 1988
| La couleur du vent | Serge | |
| Alouette, je te plumerai
| Jacques | Pierre Zucca | |
| rowspan=2| 1990
| Uranus | Jourdan | |
| La Discrète
| Antoine | |
| rowspan=2| 1992
| Lepetit | |
| The Return of Casanova
| Camille | |
| rowspan=3| 1993
| Toxic Affair | The analyst | Philomène Esposito | |
| Tout ça... pour ça !
| Fabrice Lenormand | |
| The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque
| Marc Rossignol | |
| 1994
| Derville | |
| 1995
| L'année Juliette | Camille Prader | |
| rowspan=2| 1996
| |
| Men, Women: A User's Manual
| Fabio Lini | |
| rowspan=2| 1997
| On Guard | Gonzague | |
| An Air So Pure
| Magnus | |
| rowspan=2| 1999
| Grégoire Jeancourt | |
| Rien sur Robert
| Didier Temple | |
| 2001
| Barnie et ses petites contrariétés | Barnie | Bruno Chiche | |
| 2003
| Brett | |
| 2004
| William | |
| 2005
| La cloche a sonné | Simon Arcos | Bruno Herbulot | |
| 2006
| Fabrice | |
| 2007
| Molière | M. Jourdain | |
| rowspan=3| 2008
| Paris | Roland Verneuil | |
| A Day at the Museum
| A guardian | |
| The Girl from Monaco
| Bertrand Beauvois | |
| 2009
| Points de vue | Narrator | Yona Friedman | Short |
| rowspan=2| 2010
| Potiche | Robert Pujol | |
| My Father's Guests
| Arnaud Paumelle | |
| 2011
| Jean-Louis Joubert | |
| rowspan=2| 2012
| Germain Germain | |
| Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia
| |
| 2013
| Serge Tanneur | |
| rowspan=2| 2014
| Martin Joubert | |
| Charly
| Fabrice | Jourdan Lucente | Short |
| rowspan=2| 2015
| Courted | Michel Racine | |
| Un début prometteur
| Francis Vauvel | Emma Luchini | |
| 2016
| André van Peteghem | |
| rowspan=2| 2018
| Alain Wapler | Hervé Mimran | |
| The Emperor of Paris
| |
| rowspan=4| 2019
| |
| Alice and the Mayor
| Paul Théraneau | Nicolas Pariser | |
| The Best Is Yet to Come
| Arthur Dreyfus | Matthieu Delaporte & | |
| The Mystery of Henri Pick
| Jean-Michel Rouche | |
| rowspan=3| 2023
| La petite | Joseph Siprien | |
| The Crime Is Mine
| Gustave Rabusset | |
| Un homme heureux
| Jean Leroy | Tristan Séguéla | |
| rowspan=2| 2024
| Belzébuth | |
| Marcello Mio
| Fabrice | |
= Television =
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Director ! Notes |
|---|
| 1979
| La chaine | Laurent | TV movie |
| 1980
| Fantômas | Bonardin | Juan Luis Buñuel & Claude Chabrol | TV mini-series |
| 1981
| Le beau monde | Jean-Pierre Davier | Michel Polac | TV movie |
| rowspan=2| 1986
| Tous en boîte | Minimax | Charles Nemes | TV mini-series |
| Série noire
| Kowal | TV series (1 episode) |
| rowspan=2| 1988
| L'argent du mur | Bernd | TV movie |
| Série noire
| Pastor | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1989
| Les nuits révolutionnaires | Le Huguenot | Charles Brabant | TV mini-series |
| 1990
| Six crimes sans assassin | Simon Lampias | TV movie |
| 1994
| Ne m'appelez pas ma petite | Thierry | TV movie |
| 1998
| Art | Serge | TV movie |
| 2017
| Himself | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2023
| Marcel Loiseau | Tristan Séguéla | TV mini-series |
Theatre
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- En attendant Godot (1978)
- Troïlus et Cressida (1979)
- De toutes les couleurs (1982)
- Voyage au bout de la nuit (1986)
- Le Veilleur de nuit (1986)
- La Valse du hasard (1986)
- Le Secret (1987)
- Voyage au bout de la nuit (1987)
- Voyage au bout de la nuit (1988)
- Une folie électrique (1989)
- Deux femmes pour un fantôme and La Baby-sitter (1990)
- La Société de chasse (1991)
- Partenaires (1993)
- « Art » (1994)
- Fabrice Luchini dit des textes de Baudelaire, Hugo, La Fontaine, Nietzsche (1996)
- Un cœur simple (1996)
- L’Arrivée à New-York (2000)
- Écoute mon ami (et autres textes de Louis Jouvet) (2002)
- Knock ou le triomphe de la médecine (2002)
- Fabrice Luchini dit des textes de La Fontaine, Nietzsche, Céline, Baudelaire (2005)
- Molly (2005)
- Le Point sur Robert (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
- Fabrice Luchini lit Philippe Muray (2010, 2011, 2012)
- La Fontaine (2011)
- Une heure de tranquillité (2013)
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Literature
- In 2010, Fabrice Luchini wrote the preface of two books: A la rencontre de Sacha Guitry, published by Editions Oxus, and Seul avec tous by Laurent Terzieff, published by Presses de la Renaissance.
- In 2011, he collaborated in a book by Philippe Muray, published by les Cahiers d'histoire de la philosophie (Editions du Cerf).
- Also in 2011, he released Fabrice Luchini lit fragments d'un discours amoureux through Audiolib.
- In 2012, he released Variations (La Fontaine & Baudelaire) on CD and DVD on Barclay / Universal Music France
Awards and nominations
| class = "wikitable"
! Year ! Award ! Nominated work ! Result |
| 1985
| César Award for Best Supporting Actor | {{nom}} |
| rowspan=2| 1991
| rowspan=2| La Discrète | {{won}} |
| César Award for Best Actor
| {{nom}} |
| 1993
| César Award for Best Supporting Actor | {{nom}} |
| 1994
| César Award for Best Supporting Actor | {{won}} |
| 1995
| César Award for Best Supporting Actor | {{nom}} |
| 1997
| {{nom}} |
| 2002
| Knock | {{won}} |
| 2007
| Moscow International Film Festival - Best Actor | rowspan=2| Molière | {{won}} |
| 2008
| César Award for Best Supporting Actor | {{nom}} |
| rowspan=2| 2013
| rowspan=2| In the House | {{nom}} |
| European Film Award for Best Actor
| {{nom}} |
| rowspan=2| 2014
| rowspan=2| Bicycling with Molière | {{nom}} |
| Globe de Cristal Award for Best Actor
| {{nom}} |
| 2015
| rowspan=3| Courted | {{won}} |
| rowspan=2| 2016
| {{nom}} |
| Lumières Award for Best Actor
| {{nom}} |
| 2017
| {{nom}} |
| rowspan=2| 2020
| Globe de Cristal Award for Best Actor - Comedy | {{nom}} |
| Lumières Award for Best Actor
| {{nom}} |
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
{{Commons category|Fabrice Luchini}}
- {{IMDb name|name=Fabrice Luchini|id=0524528}}
{{César Award for Best Supporting Actor}}
{{Volpi Cup for Best Actor}}
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Category:French male film actors
Category:French male stage actors
Category:French people of Italian descent
Category:20th-century French male actors
Category:21st-century French male actors
Category:French male television actors
Category:Best Supporting Actor César Award winners
Category:Volpi Cup for Best Actor winners