Jean Dujardin
{{Short description|French actor (born 1972)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Jean Dujardin
| image = Christophe Lambert et Jean Dujardin (Cropped).jpg
| caption = Dujardin at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival
| birth_name = Jean Edmond Dujardin
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1972|6|19|df=y}}
| birth_place = Rueil-Malmaison, France
| occupation = {{Flatlist|
- Actor
- comedian
- television director
}}
| yearsactive = 1996–present
| spouse = {{plainlist|
- {{marriage|Gaëlle Demars||2003|reason=div}}
- {{marriage|Alexandra Lamy|2009|2014|reason=divorced}}{{cite web|url=http://tvmag.lefigaro.fr/programme-tv/article/television/84952/alexandra-lamy-et-jean-dujardin-officiellement-divorces-.html|title=Alexandra Lamy et Jean Dujardin officiellement divorcés|publisher=Le Figaro|date=25 December 2014|access-date=23 October 2016|archive-date=1 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180901044430/http://tvmag.lefigaro.fr/programme-tv/article/television/84952/alexandra-lamy-et-jean-dujardin-officiellement-divorces-.html|url-status=live}}
- {{marriage|Nathalie Péchalat|2018}}
}}
| children = 4
}}
Jean Edmond Dujardin ({{IPA|fr|ʒɑ̃ ɛdmɔ̃ dyʒaʁdɛ̃|-|Fr-Jean Dujardin.ogg}}; born 19 June 1972) is a French actor and comedian. He began his career as a stand-up comedian in Paris before guest starring in comedic television programmes and films. He first came to prominence with the cult TV series Un gars, une fille (1999–2003), in which he starred alongside his partner Alexandra Lamy, before becoming a popular film actor with comedies such as Brice de Nice (2005), Michel Hazanavicius's OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006), its sequel OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009), and 99 Francs (2007).
Dujardin garnered international fame and widespread acclaim with his performance of George Valentin in the 2011 award-winning silent movie The Artist by Hazanavicius. The role won him numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor (the first for a French actor), the Golden Globe Award, the BAFTA Award, the Screen Actors Guild Award and the Cannes Film Festival's Best Actor Award. Despite this newfound popularity, he chose to keep his focus on France, where he remains a popular actor, although he later appeared in the English-language films The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) and The Monuments Men (2014).
Early life
Jean Dujardin was born on 19 June 1972 in the commune of Rueil-Malmaison, Hauts-de-Seine department, Île-de-France region, in the western suburbs of Paris.{{cite web |title=Jean Dujardin: Biography, Latest News & Videos |url=http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/jean-dujardin/293684 |work=TV Guide |access-date=20 January 2012 |archive-date=28 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128045013/http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/jean-dujardin/293684 |url-status=live }} He grew up in neighbouring Plaisir, Yvelines. After attending high school, he went to work for the construction company of his father, Jacques Dujardin, as a locksmith.{{cite web |title=Golden Globes: Jean Dujardin wins best actor in a comedy or musical |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2012/01/golden-globes-best-actor-comedy-musical.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=16 January 2012 |access-date=20 January 2012 |archive-date=19 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119070007/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2012/01/golden-globes-best-actor-comedy-musical.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news|title=Jean Dujardin, un gars dans les étoiles|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/cinema/article/2012/02/27/jean-dujardin-un-gars-dans-les-etoiles_1648737_3476.html|access-date=13 November 2013|archive-date=11 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111081822/http://www.lemonde.fr/cinema/article/2012/02/27/jean-dujardin-un-gars-dans-les-etoiles_1648737_3476.html|url-status=live}} Dujardin began contemplating a career in acting while serving his mandatory military service a few years later.
Career
Jean Dujardin began his acting career performing a self-written one-man show in various bars and cabarets in Paris. He first gained attention when he appeared on the French talent show Graines de star in 1996 as part of the comedy group Nous Ç Nous, which was formed by members of the Carré blanc theater.
From 1999 to 2003, Dujardin starred in the France production of the originally Canadian comedy series Un gars, une fille, alongside his future wife Alexandra Lamy, before transitioning to a career in film. The TV series charted the path of a relationship; each episode was less than ten minutes long. In 2005, he portrayed the titular surfer in the popular comedic film Brice de Nice and performed on its accompanying soundtrack.{{citation needed|date=May 2015}}
In 2006, Dujardin starred as racist, sexist secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath in the comedy OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, a role which earned him an Etoile D'Or Award and a César Award nomination for Best Actor. The film's success spawned a sequel, OSS 117: Lost in Rio. In 2007, directed by Jan Kounen, he starred in the film 99F (99 francs), a very successful existential parody of an advertising exec, adapted from the eponymous best-seller written by Frédéric Beigbeder. This same year, he ventured in drama for the first time on the silver screen, playing a tortured father and cop in Franck Mancuso's Contre-enquête. In 2009, he appeared in A Man and His Dog alongside screen legend Jean-Paul Belmondo, with whom he has often been compared. In 2010, he starred alongside Albert Dupontel, playing his character's cancer in The Clink of Ice, a French black comedy written and directed by Bertrand Blier.
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In 2011, Dujardin starred as movie star George Valentin in the silent film The Artist, reuniting him with OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies director Michel Hazanavicius and his co-star in that film, Bérénice Bejo. The film premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where he received the Best Actor Award.{{citation needed|date=September 2018}} His performance garnered much critical acclaim and he received numerous nominations, including the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor and the Screen Actors Guild for Best Actor.
On 15 January 2012, Dujardin won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.{{cite web|last=Kaufman|first=Amy|title=Golden Globes: Jean Dujardin wins best actor in a comedy or musical|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2012/01/golden-globes-best-actor-comedy-musical.html|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=17 January 2012|date=15 January 2012|archive-date=19 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119070007/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2012/01/golden-globes-best-actor-comedy-musical.html|url-status=live}} He later went on to win the Screen Actors Guild for Best Actor, and the BAFTA for Best Actor. He was also nominated for the César award of the best actor but lost it to Omar Sy for his role in the second most ever viewed movie in France Intouchables. Dujardin went on to win the Best Actor award at the 84th Academy Awards.{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203833004577247652268602514|title=The Artist Wins Big as Oscar Romances Past|date=27 February 2012|work=The Wall Street Journal|access-date=1 March 2012|archive-date=17 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150517054812/http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203833004577247652268602514|url-status=live}} In effect he is the fourth French actor to be nominated for an Oscar and the first to win the Best Actor.{{cite news|title=Oscars: Live Report |url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hU3KILNhkwaGjC3Oesvw3reUIigQ?docId=CNG.4162445dbe6d927e6b56d44aebf135a3.191 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301002834/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hU3KILNhkwaGjC3Oesvw3reUIigQ?docId=CNG.4162445dbe6d927e6b56d44aebf135a3.191 |url-status=dead |archive-date= 1 March 2012 |agency=AFP |access-date=27 February 2012 |date=26 February 2012 }} Following his Oscar nomination for his role in The Artist, WME agency signed the actor.{{cite web|title=WME Signs 'The Artist' Actor Jean Dujardin (Exclusive)|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/risky-business/wme-signs-artist-actor-jean-286093|work=The Hollywood Reporter|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120203023130/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/risky-business/wme-signs-artist-actor-jean-286093 |archive-date=3 February 2012 |access-date=27 February 2012|author=Jay A. Fernandez|author2=Borys Kit|date=31 January 2012}}
French film historian Tim Palmer has analyzed Dujardin's career and rise to success in France, noting how his formative roles were often unredeemable buffoons, very skillful portrayals of childlike men who aggressively and unabashedly reject the responsibilities and compromises of adult life. Dujardin's breakthrough roles as Brice de Nice and OSS 117 exemplified this tendency.Palmer, Tim (2011). Brutal Intimacy: Analyzing Contemporary French Cinema, Wesleyan University Press, Middleton CT. {{ISBN|0-8195-6827-9}}.
In February 2012, Dujardin appeared in Les Infidèles with co-star and friend Gilles Lellouche. He was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in June 2012 along with 175 other individuals.{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2012/20120629a.html|title=Academy Invites 176 to Membership|publisher=The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|date=29 June 2012|access-date=19 July 2013|archive-date=1 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141001051235/https://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2012/20120629a.html|url-status=live}} In 2013, Dujardin starred in Éric Rochant's Möbius with Cécile de France and Tim Roth.{{cite web|last=Goldberg|first=Matt|title=Jean Dujardin and Cecile de France to Star in Romantic Thriller MOBIUS|url=http://collider.com/jean-dujardin-cecile-de-france-mobius/125390|work=Collider|access-date=27 February 2012|date=8 November 2011|archive-date=23 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120123193057/http://collider.com/jean-dujardin-cecile-de-france-mobius/125390|url-status=live}}
His second film that year was Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street, playing alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Matthew McConaughey, and Kyle Chandler, among others.{{cite web|last=Miller|first=Daniel|title=Jean Dujardin in Talks to Join Martin Scorsese's 'The Wolf of Wall Street'|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jean-dujardin-martin-scorsese-wolf-of-wall-street-337876|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=19 July 2013|date=14 June 2012|archive-date=6 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306191317/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jean-dujardin-martin-scorsese-wolf-of-wall-street-337876|url-status=live}} He appeared in The Monuments Men, directed by George Clooney, and co-starring Clooney, Matt Damon, and Cate Blanchett,{{cite web|title=George Clooney's 'The Monuments Men' Eyeing Jean Dujardin (Exclusive)|url=http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/jean-dujardin-possible-monuments-men-exclusive-58821|work=The Wrap|access-date=19 July 2013|date=2 October 2012|archive-date=9 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200109144949/https://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/jean-dujardin-possible-monuments-men-exclusive-58821/|url-status=live}} and starred in the French film Le Petit Joueur.{{cite web|title=Jean Dujardin May Head Back to His Roots in 'Le Petit Joueur'|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jean-dujardin-le-petit-joueur-295677|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=19 July 2013|date=28 February 2012|archive-date=13 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190913210723/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jean-dujardin-le-petit-joueur-295677|url-status=live}}
In late 2014, La French, was released in Europe and subsequently in the United States in early 2015. He plays a French police magistrate who tries to dismantle the French Connection and bring down the Unione Corse.{{citation needed|date=May 2015}}
Personal life
Dujardin has been married three times and has four children. His first marriage, to Gaëlle Demars, ended in 2003.{{citation needed|date=December 2018}} They have two sons, born in 2000 and 2001.{{citation needed|date=December 2018}} In 2003, he started dating his on-screen partner Alexandra Lamy of the comedy series Un gars, une fille; the two had originally met at the audition, and fell in love while shooting the series. They married in Anduze on 25 July 2009. In November 2013, it was announced that the couple had separated.
He began dating French ice dancer Nathalie Péchalat in 2014 after following her to Japan to watch her perform in the world ice skating championships, and they had a daughter who they named Jeanne, in December 2015. {{cite web|title=NATHALIE PECHALAT AND JEAN DUJARDIN HAVE A BABY GIRL|date=6 December 2015 |url=http://www.closermag.fr/people/people-francais/info-closer-nathalie-pechalat-et-jean-dujardin-sont-parents-d-une-petite-fille-579467|access-date=22 December 2015|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304122212/http://www.closermag.fr/people/people-francais/info-closer-nathalie-pechalat-et-jean-dujardin-sont-parents-d-une-petite-fille-579467|url-status=live}} They married on 19 May 2018 in a small ceremony. Péchalat gave birth to daughter Alice in February 2021{{Cite news|url=http://www.purepeople.com/article/jean-dujardin-et-nathalie-pechalat-ils-se-sont-maries_a286897/1|title=Jean Dujardin et Nathalie Péchalat : Ils se sont mariés !|access-date=2018-07-29|language=fr}}
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Director ! class="unsortable"| Notes |
|---|
| rowspan=2|2002
| À l'abri des regards indiscrets | Jean-Luc | Short |
| If I Were a Rich Man
| Weston the seller | Gérard Bitton | |
| rowspan=3|2003
| Toutes les filles sont folles | Lorenzi | Pascale Pouzadoux | |
| Bienvenue chez les Rozes
| Mathieu Gamelin/MG | Francis Palluau | |
| The Car Keys
| Himself | |
| rowspan=4|2004
| Jacques | |
| Mariages !
| Alex | |
| Les Dalton
| Cowboy | |
| Rien de grave
| Travelling Salesman | Renaud Philipps | Short |
| rowspan=4|2005
| La vie de Michel Muller est plus belle que la vôtre | Himself | |
| Brice de Nice
| Brice de Nice | Also co-writer |
| L'Amour aux trousses
| Franck | Philippe de Chauveron | |
| Il ne faut jurer de rien !
| Valentin | Eric Civanyan | |
| 2006
| OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies | Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117 | |
| rowspan=5|2007
| Richard Malinowski | Franck Mancuso | |
| Hellphone
| The Warrior of the Cellar | |
| Deux sur la balançoire
| Jerry Ryan | Yves Di Tullio | TV movie |
| Cherche fiancé tous frais payés
| Nightclub Host | Aline Issermann | |
| 99 Francs
| Octave Parango | |
| 2008
| Ca$h | Cash | Éric Besnard | |
| rowspan=3|2009
| The Worker | |
| OSS 117: Lost in Rio
| Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117 |
| Lucky Luke
| Also co-writer |
| rowspan=3|2010
| Ludo | |
| The Clink of Ice
| Charles Faulque | |
| A View of Love
| Marc Palestro | |
| 2011
| George Valentin | |
| 2012
| Fred/Olivier/François/Laurent/James | Emmanuelle Bercot | Also co-director, co-writer and co-producer |
| rowspan=3|2013
| Möbius | Moïse | |
| The Wolf of Wall Street
| Jean-Jacques Saurel | |
| 9 Month Stretch
| Sign Language Interpreter | |
| rowspan=2|2014
| Jean-Claude Clermont | |
| The Connection
| |
| 2015
| Antoine Abeilard | |
| rowspan=2|2016
| Alexandre | |
| Brice 3
| Brice de Nice |Also co-writer |
| rowspan=2| 2017
| Jean the policeman | |
| Sahara
| Georges | Pierre Coré | Voice |
| rowspan=2| 2018
| Jacques | Benoît Delépine & Gustave Kervern | |
| Return of the Hero
| Captain Charles-Grégoire Neuville | |
| rowspan=2|2019
|Georges | |
| An Officer and a Spy
| |
| rowspan="2" |2021
|OSS 117: From Africa with Love | Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117 | |
| Présidents
| |
| 2022
| Fred | |
| |2023
|{{ill|Sur les chemins noirs (film)|lt=On the Wandering Paths|fr|Sur les chemins noirs (film)}} |Pierre |Denis Imbert | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 1996–1999
| Carré Blanc / Nous C Nous | Various | TV sketches |
| 1997–1998
| Farce Attaque | Himself | Also co-writer |
| 1999–2003
| rowspan=2| Jean / "Loulou" | Lead role opposite later lover and wife Alexandra Lamy |
| 1999
| Special guest in the episode "À Paris"; reprised his role from the French series |
| 2007
| Palizzi | Dustman | Also creator and director |
| 2012
| George Valentin-like character |
| rowspan=2|2013
| Le débarquement | Various | TV series (2 episodes) |
| Platane
| Himself | TV series (1 episode: "La fois où il a cru que le signe c'était un zodiac") |
| 2018
| Jean Dujardin | TV series (1 episode : "Jean") |
| 2023
| Alphonse | Alphonse | Lead role, 6 episodes |
| 2024
|Zorro |Zorro |Lead role, 8 episodes |
= Music video =
- 2005 : "Le Casse de Brice" (directed by J.G. Biggs)
- 2016 : "Pour un pote" featuring Bigflo & Oli
Award and nominations
References
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External links
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- {{IMDb name|241121}}
- [http://www.english.rfi.fr/france/20120202-oscar-contender-dujardin-ad-campaign-controversy-new-film Oscar contender Dujardin in ad campaign controversy over new film on RFI English]
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