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Melvil Poupaud - Wikipedia

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Melvil Poupaud
Poupaud in 2006
Born	Melvil Matthias Julien Poupaud (1973-01-26) 26 January 1973 (age 51) Paris, France
Occupations	Actor writer director
Years active	1983–present
Spouse	Georgina Tacou (m. 1999, divorced)
Children	1
Mother	Chantal Poupaud

Melvil Matthias Julien Poupaud (born 26 January 1973) is a French actor.

Early life

Poupaud was born in Paris, the son of Michel Poupaud and publicist Chantal Poupaud. He has an elder brother, Yarol, who is a musician.

Career

Poupaud made his film debut at the age of 10 in Raúl Ruiz's City of Pirates (1983), whom he met through his mother.^[1] He subsequently appeared in nine more of Ruiz's films, including The Insomniac on the Bridge (1985), Treasure Island (1986), Genealogies of a Crime (1997), Time Regained (1999) and Love Torn in a Dream (2000).^[2] For his roles in Jacques Doillon's The 15 Year Old Girl (1989) and Laurence Ferreira Barbosa's Normal People Are Nothing Exceptional (1993), Poupaud received two nominations for the César Award for Most Promising Actor.

He starred in François Ozon's Time to Leave,^[3] and co-starred with Parker Posey in Zoe Cassavetes' Broken English.^[4]

He also appeared in films such as Eric Rohmer's A Summer's Tale,^[5] Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale,^[6] and François Ozon's The Refuge.^[7]

He co-starred with Suzanne Clément in Xavier Dolan's Laurence Anyways.^[8]

Personal life

Poupaud dated actress Chiara Mastroianni for four years from the age of 16 to 20.^[9] Though the two split up they remained friends and collaborators for decades with Mastroianni crediting Poupaud with encouraging her to pursue acting as a career and Poupaud crediting Mastroianni for his friendship with her ex-husband Benjamin Biolay.^[10]

Poupaud was previously married to writer Georgina Tacou, with whom he has a daughter.^[11]

Filmography

As actor

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1983	City of Pirates	Malo
1984	Qui es-tu Johnny Mac ?	Johnny Mac	Short (also as director and screenwriter)
1985	Treasure Island	Jim Hawkins
	The Insomniac on the Bridge	Michel
	Ces jours où les remords font vraiment mal au cœur	The boy	Short (also as director and screenwriter)
1986	Dans un miroir
1988	3 jours...	Melvil	Short (also as director and screenwriter)
1989	The 15 Year Old Girl	Thomas	Nominated - César Award for Most Promising Actor
1992	Archipel	Michel
1992	The Lover	The Younger Brother
1993	À la belle étoile	Mathieu
1993	Les gens normaux n'ont rien d'exceptionnel	Germain	Also as composer Nominated - César Award for Most Promising Actor
1994	Fado majeur et mineur	Antoine
1994	Boulevard Mac Donald		Short (also as director, screenwriter and composer)
1995	Élisa	Pharmacist's Son
	Innocent Lies	Louis Bernard
	Those Were the Days	Axel
	Hillbilly Chainsaw Massacre		Short
	La Vie de Marianne	Valville	TV movie
	3000 scénarios contre un virus		TV series (1 episode)
1996	Souvenir	Charles
	A Summer's Tale	Gaspard
	Le journal du séducteur	Gregoire
	Three Lives and Only One Death	Martin
1997	Marianne	Valville
	Le ciel est à nous	Lenny
	Genealogies of a Crime	René
1998	Les kidnappeurs	Armand Carpentier
1999	Time Regained	Prince de Foix
1999	Quelque chose	The man	Short (also as director, screenwriter and cinematographer)
2000	A Raiz do Coração	Vicente Corvo
	La Chambre obscure	Bertrand
	Love Torn in a Dream	Paul
2001	A Hell of a Day	Ben
2001	Rémi	Rémi	Short (also as director and screenwriter)
2003	Feelings	François
	Le Divorce	Charles-Henri de Persand
	Shimkent hôtel	Alex
	Pronobis	Philippe	Short (also as director and screenwriter)
2004	Eros thérapie	Bruno
	Monde extérieur	Régis	Short
	Qui a tué Johnny Mac ?	Johnny Mac	Short (also as director, screenwriter and cinematographer)
2005	Time to Leave	Romain	Valladolid International Film Festival - Best Actor
2006	Melvil	Melvil	Also as director, screenwriter, cinematographer and editor
2007	A Lost Man	Thomas Koré
	Towards Zero	Guillaume Neuville
	Broken English	Julien
2008	The Broken	Stefan Chambers
	Speed Racer	Johnny 'Goodboy' Jones
	A Christmas Tale	Ivan Vuillard
	Crime Is Our Business	Frédéric Charpentier
2009	The Refuge	Louis
	Lucky Luke	Jesse James
	44 Inch Chest	Loverboy	San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Performance by an Ensemble
2010	La lisière	François
	Black Heaven	Vincent
	Mysteries of Lisbon	Colonel Ernesto Lacroze
	The Counterfeiters	Edouard	TV movie
2011	L'orpheline avec en plus un bras en moins	Robinson
2011	The Argument	Man	Short
2012	Laurence Anyways	Laurence Alia	Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival - Best Actor Nominated - Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor Nominated - Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor in a Canadian Film
2012	Lines of Wellington	Marechal Massena
2014	Fidelio: Alice's Odyssey	Gaël
2015	Mad Love	The Priest
	Face Down	Samy
	By the Sea	François
	The Great Game	Pierre Blum
2016	In Bed with Victoria	Vincent Kossarski	Nominated — César Award for Best Supporting Actor
2017	The Lady in the Portrait	Jean Denis Attiret
2017	La pimbêche à vélo	Melvil	Short
2018	La belle et la belle	Marc
	By the Grace of God	Alexandre Guérin	Nominated — César Award for Best Actor
	Les grands squelettes
	Insoupçonnable	Paul Brodsky	TV series (10 episodes) Nominated - ACS Award for Best Actor
2019	Golden Youth	Hubert Robert
2019	J'accuse	Maître Labori
2020	Summer of 85	M. Lefèvre
2021–2022	UFOs	Didier Mathure	TV series (24 episodes) ACS Award for Best Actor (2021) Nominated - ACS Award for Best Actor (2022)
2022	Brother and Sister	Louis^[12]
2022	One Fine Morning	Clément
2023	Jeanne du Barry	Le Comte du Barry
	Just the Two of Us	Grégoire
	Coup de chance	Jean

As filmmaker

Year	Title	Credited as			Notes
Year	Title	Director	Writer	Cinematographer	Notes
1984	Qui es-tu Johnny Mac ?	Yes	Yes	No	Short
1985	Ces jours où les remords font vraiment mal au cœur	Yes	Yes	No	Short
1988	3 jours…	Yes	Yes	No	Short
1994	Boulevard Mac Donald	Yes	Yes	No	Short (also as composer)
1999	Quelque chose	Yes	Yes	Yes	Short
2001	Rémi	Yes	Yes	No	Short
2003	Pronobis	Yes	Yes	No	Short
2004	Qui a tué Johnny Mac ?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Short
2006	Melvil	Yes	Yes	Yes	Also as editor

Bibliography

Melvil Poupaud, Quel est Mon noM, Paris, Éditions Stock, coll. « La Bleue », 7 septembre 2011, 288 p. (ISBN 978-2-23407-030-1).^[13]

Other awards

1998: Berlin International Film Festival – Shooting Stars Award

References

^ Chang, Kee (7 March 2016). "Rendezvous with Melvil Poupaud". Anthem.
^ "Melvil Poupaud : "Raoul Ruiz restera toujours un grand mystère pour moi"". Radio France (in French). 7 June 2022.
^ Philip French (14 May 2006). "Time to Leave - Film - The Observer". The Guardian.
^ Jason Clark (17 June 2007). "Broken English - Film Review - Slant Magazine". Slant Magazine.
^ Andrew Pulver (29 July 2005). "A Summer's Tale - From The Guardian - The Guardian". The Guardian.
^ Robert Bell (November 2009). "Un Conte de Noel (A Christmas Tale) Directed by Arnaud Desplechin". Exclaim!.
^ Philip French (12 August 2010). "The Refuge - Film Review - Film - The Observer". The Guardian.
^ Philip Concannon (26 October 2012). "Un Certain Regard: Interview with Melvil Poupaud and Suzanne Clément". The Skinny.
^ "Benjamin Biolay et Melvil Poupaud, amoureux de Chiara Mastroianni". 6 July 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
^ "Benjamin Biolay et Melvil Poupaud évoquent la très célèbre ex-compagne qu'ils ont en commun". 4 July 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
^ Leyris, Raphaëlle (6 October 2011). "Le making of de Melvil Poupaud" (in French).
^ Raup, Jordan (12 April 2021). "Arnaud Desplechin to Direct Marion Cotillard and Melvil Poupaud in New Film Brother and Sister". The Film Stage.
^ "Quel est Mon nom ?, Melvil Poupaud". 17 September 2011.

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