Maxence Dinant
- Actor
Maxence Dinant is a Belgian actor, screenwriter and director.
After graduating in fashion design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, he established himself as a designer at renowned Maisons such as Jil Sander, Dolce&Gabbana, Alexander McQueen and Salvatore Ferragamo.
In 2016, a year after his first appearance on the big screen in Matteo Garrone's "Tale of Tales" and Federico Cianferoni's short film "Monde Ayahuasca" - both presented at the Cannes Film Festival- Maxence decided to change his life and moved to Los Angeles to train as an actor at the studios of renowned acting coaches such as Larry Moss, John Ruskin and Ivana Chubbuck.
Back in Italy, he joined the IPC International agency and continued his career with roles for the cinema including Sergio Castellitto's "A Bookshop in Paris" (2021), Massimo Donati's "Diary of Spices" (2021), "Romanzo Radicale" by Mimmo Calopresti (2022), "Giorni Felici" by Simone Petralia (2023), "La Fraterie" by Simone Godano (2023).
He also acted in Italian and international TV series such as the remake of "The Name of the Rose", by Giacomo Battiato (2019), "L'allieva 3" by Luca Ribuoli (2020), "Mina Settembre 2" by Tiziana Aristarco (2022), "The Swarm" by Barbara Eder (2023), "Everybody loves diamonds" by Gianluca Maria Tavarelli (2023) "Love Club" by Mario Piredda (2023) and in Prime Video's Citadel: Diana, the next chapter in the Citadel Spyverse by the Russo Brothers' AGBO.
Finally, he also starred in various short films including Federico Cianferoni's "Don't touch here" (2021), Federico Caria's "Une Bouffée d'Air" (2021), Tommaso Gorani's "An Italian action story" and Andrea Dalfino's "Trading Shadows" (2021).
At the beginning of 2020 he directed his first play "AMEN: e cosi sia" and his first documentary "Les Amateurs: Designers in quarantine", presented in February 2021 at the Los Angeles Italia Film Festival at the Chinese Theater in Los Angeles.
He is currently closing the production of his first short film "Teona" directed by Tommaso Gorani, and looking for producers for his first feature film "Freedom 2.0".