Fabrice Luchini (French pronunciation: [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.
For his role in the 2015 film Courted he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival.[1]
Life and career[edit]
Fabrice Luchini was born in Paris, into an Italian immigrant family from Assisi[2] 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. 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 Nagisa Oshima, Pierre Zucca, Claude Lelouch, Cedric Klapisch and Édouard Molinaro. In 1990 he appeared in Christian Vincent's La Discrète.
Selected filmography[edit]
- Tout peut arriver (1969) – Fabrice
- Le genou de Claire (1970) – Vincent
- Valparaiso, Valparaiso (1971)
- Contes immoraux (1973) – André / Julie's cousin – Story 1
- Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre) (1975) – Vincent Vergne
- Ne (1975)
- Les écrans déchirés (1976, Short) – Fabrice
- Violette Nozière (1978) – Camus, l'étudiant
- Perceval le Gallois (1978) – Perceval
- Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme (1980) – Arthur
- La femme de l'aviateur (1981) – Mercillat
- La forêt désenchantée (1981, Short)
- T'es folle ou quoi? (1982) – Jean-François Sevran
- Jimmy Jazz (1982, Short) – Fabrice
- Zig Zag Story (1983) – Bob Hemler
- Il ne faut jurer de rien (1983, Short)
- Lettre de la Sierra Morena (1983)
- Emmanuelle 4 (1984) – Oswaldo
- Les nuits de la pleine lune (1984) – Octave
- Rouge-gorge (1985) – Frédéric
- Profs (1985) – Michel
- Conseil de famille (1986) – The shady lawyer
- Max mon amour (1986) – Nicolas
- Triple sec (1986, Short)
- 4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle (1987) – Painting Salesman
- Hôtel du paradis (1987) – Arthur
- Les oreilles entre les dents (1987) – Luc Fabri
- Alouette, je te plumerai (1988) – Jacques
- La Couleur du vent (1988) – Serge
- La discrète (1990) – Antoine
- Uranus (1990) – Jourdan
- Le retour de Casanova (1992) – Camille
- Riens du tout (1992) – Lepetit
- L'Arbre, le maire et la médiathèque (1993) – Marc Rossignol – the School Teacher
- Toxic Affair (1993) – The Analyst
- Tout ça... pour ça ! (1993) – Fabrice Lenormand
- Le Colonel Chabert (1994) – Derville
- L'année Juliette (1995) – Camille Prader
- Beaumarchais, l'insolent (1996) – Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
- Hommes, femmes, mode d'emploi (1996) – Fabio Lini
- An Air So Pure (1997) – Magnus
- Le Bossu (1997) – Gonzague
- Rien sur Robert (1999) – Didier Temple
- Pas de scandale (1999) – Grégoire Jeancourt
- Barnie et ses petites contrariétés (2001) – Barnie
- Le coût de la vie (2003) – Brett
- Confidences trop intimes (aka Intimate Strangers) (2004) – William
- La cloche a sonné (2005) – Simon Arcos
- Jean-Philippe (2006) – Fabrice
- Molière (2007) – M. Jourdain
- Paris (2008) – Roland Verneuil
- La fille de Monaco (2008) – Bertrand Beauvois
- Musée haut, musée bas (2008) – Un gardien musée Malraux
- My Father's Guests (2010) – Arnaud Paumelle
- Potiche (2010) – Robert Pujol
- Les femmes du 6ème étage (2010) – Jean-Louis Joubert
- In the House (2012) – Germain Germain
- Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia (2012) – Jules César
- Alceste à bicyclette (2013) – Serge Tanneur
- Gemma Bovery (2014) – Martin Joubert
- Un début prometteur (2015) – Francis Vauvel
- L'Hermine (2015) – Michel Racine
- Slack Bay (2016) – André Van Peteghem
- A Man in a Hurry (2018) – Alain Wapler
- L'empereur de Paris (2018) – Fouché
- The Mystery of Henri Pick (2019) – Jean-Michel Rouche
- Joan of Arc (2019) – King of France
- Alice and the Mayor (2019) – Paul Théraneau
- The Best Is Yet to Come (2019) – Arthur
- The Empire (2024) – Belzébuth
- Television
- Le beau monde (TV movie by Michel Polac) – Jean-Pierre Davin (1981)
- Série noire (TV series)
- "Adieu la vie" (Maurice Dugowson) – Kowal (1986)
- "La fée carabine" (Yves Boisset) – Pastor (1988)
- Tous en boîte (TV mini-series by Charles Nemès) – Minimax (1986)
- Les dossiers de l'écran (TV series)
- Au nom du peuple français (Maurice Dugowson) – Robespierre (1988)
- Les nuits révolutionnaires (TV mini-series by Charles Brabant) – Huguenot sans-culotte (1989)
- Six crimes sans assassin (TV movie by Bernard Stora) – Simon Lampias (1990)
- Call My Agent ! (TV Series / 1 Episode) – Himself (2017)
- Class Act (TV mini-series) - Marcel Loiseau (2023)