Mathieu Amalric
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Amalric at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival
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| Born | 25 October 1965 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France |
| Occupation | Actor, film director, screenwriter, producer |
| Years active | 1984–present |
| Children | 3 |
Mathieu Amalric (French pronunciation: [ma.tjø a.mal.ʁik]; born 25 October 1965)[1] is a French actor and filmmaker. Amalric is perhaps best known internationally for his performance as the lead villain in Bond film Quantum of Solace, his performance in Steven Spielberg's Munich and for his role in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, for which he drew critical acclaim. He has also won the Étoile d'or and the Lumières Award.
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Early life
Amalric was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris, France, the son of journalists Nicole Zand, a literary critic for Le Monde, and Jacques Amalric, who has worked as a foreign affairs editor for Le Monde and Libération. Amalric's father is French while his mother was born in Poland, to Jewish parents, and moved to France at the outbreak of World War II.[2][3]
Career
Amalric first gained fame in the film Ma Vie Sexuelle (My Sex Life...or How I Got Into an Argument), for which he won a César Award.
He was selected to play the James Bond villain Dominic Greene alongside Daniel Craig (with whom he had previously starred in Munich) in the 2008 film Quantum of Solace.[4]
In 2007, he starred in the critically acclaimed movie Le Scaphandre et le Papillon, to critical praise.
His 2010 film, On Tour, premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and won Amalric the Best Director Award.[5]
The 2014 film The Blue Room, which he directed and starred in, was selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.[6]
Personal life
Amalric has three sons, two with his ex-wife Jeanne Balibar, and one with his girlfriend, a writer, with whom he currently lives in the Belleville neighbourhood of Paris.[citation needed]
Filmography
As actor
| Year | Title | Alternate title | Role | Notes |
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| 1984 | Les Favoris de la lune | Favourites of the Moon | Julien | |
| 1991 | Vert quoi vers où | |||
| 1992 | La Sentinelle | The Sentinelle | ||
| La chasse aux papillons | Chasing Butterflies | |||
| 1993 | Les yeux au plafond | |||
| 1994 | Lettre pour L... | Letter for L | ||
| 1995 | Tom est tout seul | uncredited | ||
| 1996 | Le Journal du séducteur | Diary of a Seducer | Sebastien | Nominated – Acteurs à l'Écran for Best Actor |
| Comment je me suis disputé...(ma vie sexuelle) | Paul Dedalus | César Award for Most Promising Actor | ||
| 1997 | Généalogies d'un crime | Genealogies of a Crime | Yves | |
| 1998 | L'interview | Julien | ||
| On a très peu d'amis | Ivan | |||
| Dieu seul me voit | Only God Sees Me | Atchoum | ||
| Fin août, début septembre | Late August, Early September | Gabriel | ||
| Alice et Martin | Alice and Martin | Benjamin Sauvagnac | ||
| 1999 | Trois ponts sur la rivière | Arthur Echéant | ||
| Adieu, plancher des vaches! | Farewell, Tera Firma! | Drinker at bar | ||
| 2000 | La Fausse suivante | False Servant | Lélio | |
| La Bréche de Roland | Roland's Pass | Roland | ||
| L'Affaire Marcorelle | The Marcorelle Affair | Fourcade | ||
| 2001 | Amour d'enfance | Boyhood Loves | Paul | |
| 2002 | Lundi matin | Monday Morning | voice contribution | |
| Les naufragés de la D17 | Shipwrecked on Route D 17 | René, the astrophysician | ||
| Lulu | The advocate | |||
| C'est le bouquet! | Special Delivery | |||
| 2003 | Un homme, un vrai | A Man, a Real One | Boris | |
| Mes enfants ne sont pas comme les autres | My Children Are Different | Gérald | ||
| Inquiétudes | A Sight for Sore Eyes | Art teacher | ||
| 2004 | Cuadrilátero | |||
| Les parallèles | Simon | |||
| Rois et reine | Kings and Queens | Ismaël Vuillard | César Award for Best Actor Lumières Award for Best Actor |
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| Le pont des Arts | Un spectateur du Nô | |||
| Au large de Bad Ragaz | Alex | |||
| 2005 | J'ai vu tuer Ben Barka | I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed | Philippe Bernier | |
| Les mâtines | Serge | |||
| La Moustache | Serge Schaeffer | |||
| Munich | Louis | Nominated - National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor (2nd place) Nominated - New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor (2nd place) |
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| Comme James Dean | Robert Benchetrout | |||
| Avaler des couleuvres | Tom, the husband | |||
| 2006 | Marie Antoinette | Man at Masked Ball | ||
| Quand j'étais chanteur | The Singer | Bruno | ||
| Les signes | Man | |||
| Fragments sur la grâce | A reader | |||
| Un lever de rideau | A Curtain Raiser | Pierre | ||
| Le Grand apartment | The Very Big Apartment | Martin | ||
| 2007 | Michou d'Auber | Jacques | ||
| La Question humaine | Heartbeat Detector | Simon | Copenhagen International Film Festival: Best Actor Gijón International Film Festival: Best Actor |
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| Actrices | Actresses | Denis | ||
| Le Scaphandre et le papillon | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Jean-Dominique Bauby | César Award for Best Actor Étoiles d'Or for Best Best Actor Lumières Award for Best Actor Nominated - Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor |
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| L'histoire de Richard O. | The Story of Richard O | Richard O. | ||
| Un secret | A Secret | François Grimbert à 37 ans | ||
| 2008 | 57000 km entre nous | 57,000 Kilometers Between Us | Simon | |
| Un conte de Noël | A Christmas Tale | Henri, middle child | Nominated - International Cinephile Society Award for Best Supporting Actor [7] | |
| De la guerre | On War | Bertrand | ||
| Mesrine: L'ennemi public n°1' | Mesrine: Part II - Public Enemy #1 | François Besse | ||
| Quantum of Solace | Dominic Greene | |||
| 2009 | Park Benches | The father in pram | Bruno Podalydès | |
| Visages | Face | L'homme du fourré | ||
| Les derniers jours du monde | Robinson | |||
| Les herbes folles | Wild Grass | Bernard de Bordeaux | ||
| 2010 | Les aventures fantastiques d'Adèle Blanc-Sec | Dieuleveult | ||
| On Tour | Joachim Zand | also director Cannes Film Festival: Best Director Cannes Film Festival: FIPRESCI Prize RiverRun International Film Festival: Best Actor Nominated - Cannes Film Festival: Palme d'Or Nominated - César Award for Best Director Nominated - César Award for Best Film Nominated - César Award for Best Original Screenplay |
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| The Rabbi's Cat | Le prince | voice contribution | ||
| Jeanne captive | The Preacher | |||
| 2011 | Chicken with Plums | Nasser-Ali | ||
| 2012 | You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet! | Himself | ||
| Cosmopolis | André Petrescu | |||
| Camille redouble | French teacher | |||
| 2013 | La Vénus à la fourrure | Venus in Fur | Thomas | |
| Jimmy Picard | George Devereux | |||
| Love Is the Perfect Crime | Marc | |||
| 2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Serge X | Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture | |
| If You Don't, I Will | Pierre | |||
| Spiritismes | ||||
| La Chambre bleue | The Blue Room | Julien Gahyde | ||
| Bird People | The narrator | |||
| The Dune | Moreau | |||
| 2015 | Wolf Hall | Eustace Chapuys | ||
| The Forbidden Room | Thadeusz M____ / Ostler | |||
| My Golden Days | Paul (adult) | |||
| Families | Jérôme Varenne | |||
| The Very Private Life of Mister Sim | Samuel | |||
| 2016 | Le Cancre | The dunce | Boris | |
| 2016 | Le Fils de Joseph | Oscar Pormenor | ||
| 2016 | The Woman in the Silver Plate |
As voice actor
As director
- Mange ta soupe (1997)
- Le Stade de Wimbledon (Wimbledon Stadium) (2001)
- La Chose publique (2003)
- On Tour (2010)
- (French) L'Illusion comique (2010)
- Hopper Stories (2012) (Short film)
- La chambre bleue (2014)
Awards
- 1997:
- César Award for Most Promising Actor — My Sex Life...or How I Got Into an Argument (Comment je me suis disputé...(ma vie sexuelle))
- 2005:
- César Award for Best Actor — Kings and Queen (Rois et reine)
- Lumières Award for Best Actor — Kings and Queen (Rois et reine)
- Runner-up for Best Supporting Actor — National Society of Film Critics Awards — Munich
- 2008:
- Étoiles d’Or Award for Best Actor — The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- César Award for Best Actor — The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Lumières Award for Best Actor — The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- 2010:
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