Fabrice Luchini
Actor
Born November 1, 1951 in Paris, France
Fabrice Luchini was born in Île-de-France, Paris, into an Italian immigrant family, who were fruit and vegetable vendors. 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 parlor on Avenue Matignon, where he would take the name of the hairdresser's son, Fabrice, in place of his real name, Robert. At the same time he developed a great interest for literature (Balzac, Flaubert, Proust). His passion for soul music (James Brown) made him a regular of discothèques. This is where he met Philippe Labro, who gave him his first role in Tout peut arriver in 1969. He then studied acting under Jean-Laurent Cochet. However, it was his collaboration with Éric Rohmer that would make him popular for Le Genou de Claire in 1970, in which he played a small role as an adolescent. He appeared in Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois, and Les Nuits de la pleine lune, and in films directed by Nagisa Oshima, Pierre Zucca, Claude Lelouch, Cedric Klapisch, Édouard Molinaro. Thanks to Jean-Laurent Cochet, he later discovered theater, his true passion, which he described as "the only place where life is expressed... something that no school will ever teach". However, it was his role in La Discrète, directed by Christian Vincent in 1990, that made him well-known to the general public. He divides his work between cinema and theater, where since 1980 he has had considerable success with readings from the texts of La Fontaine, Nietzsche, Céline's Voyage au bout de la nuit, Paul Valéry and Roland Barthes.
Filmography
Hugo
Robert Zuchini
Laïcité, l'exception française - 120 ans, et maintenant ?
Self
Natacha, (Almost) Air Hostess
Narrator
Treasure Hunters: On the Tracks of Khufu
Christian
La Fontaine et le Confinement
Marcello Mio
Fabrice
Céline Dion, la bande originale de sa vie
Self - Guest
The Empire
Belzébuth
Class Act
Marcel Loiseau
The Baby
Joseph
The Crime Is Mine
Judge Rabusset
For Better and for Worse
Jean Leroy
By Heart
Self
Fabrice Luchini : des écrivains parlent d'argent
The Parisian Agency: Exclusive Properties
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Self (archive footage)
The Best Is Yet to Come
Arthur Dreyfus
Joan of Arc
Roi Charles VII
Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol
Narrator (voice)
Alice and the Mayor
Paul Theraneau
The Mystery of Henri Pick
Jean Michel Rouche
The Emperor of Paris
Fouché
A Man in a Hurry
Alain
Quotidien
Self
Slack Bay
André van Peteghem
Courted
Michel Racine
Call My Agent!
Self
Un début prometteur
Francis Vauvel
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
A Visit to Hokusai
Narrator
Gemma Bovery
Martin
Cycling with Molière
Serge Tanneur
Luchini - Variations La Fontaine
Self
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
Jules César
In the House
Germain
The Women on the 6th Floor
Jean-Louis Joubert
Trophy Wife
Robert Pujol
My Father's Guests
Arnaud
A Day at the Museum
Guard at the Malraux museum
Le Point sur Robert
Fabrice Luchini
Stéphane Guillon - Portraits au vitriol (1ère salve)
Self
The Girl from Monaco
Bertrand Beauvois
Paris
Roland Verneuil
Moliere
M. Jourdain
On n'est pas couché
Self - Guest
Jean-Philippe
Fabrice / Self
La cloche a sonné
Simon Arcos
Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine
Doctor Knock
Intimate Strangers
William
The Cost of Living
Brett
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Self
Barnie's Minor Annoyances
Barnie
Keep It Quiet
Grégoire Jeancourt
Nothing About Robert
Didier Temple
Les Enfoirés 1999 - Dernière édition avant l'an 2000
« Art »
Serge
Par cœur
Self
Vivement dimanche
Self
On Guard
Count Gonzague
An Air So Pure
Magnus
Men, Women: A User's Manual
Fabio Lini
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
The Juliette Year
Camille Prader
Colonel Chabert
Derville
All That... for This?!
Fabrice Lenormand
Toxic Affair
The Analyst
The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque
Marc Rossignol, l’instituteur
Little Nothings
Lepetit
The Return of Casanova
Camille
Uranus
Jourdan
The Discreet
Antoine
Journey to the End of the Night
Self
Six crimes sans assassins
Simon
The Color of the Wind
Serge
La Fée Carabine
Pastor
Lark, I'll Pluck You!
Jacques
Les Oreilles entre les dents
Luc Fabri
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
Le marchand de tableau
Max My Love
Nicolas
Paradise Hotel
Arthur
Family Business
Shady Lawyer
P.R.O.F.S.
Michel
Robin
Frédéric
Full Moon in Paris
Octave
Emmanuelle 4
Oswaldo
Lettre de la Sierra Morena
Don Quichotte
Zig Zag Story
Bob Hemler
T'es folle ou quoi ?
Jean-François Sevran
Droit de Réponse
Self
Le Beau Monde
Jean-Pierre Davier
The Aviator's Wife
Mercillat
Fantômas
Bonardin
Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme
Arthur
Perceval
Perceval
Violette Nozière
Camus, student
Vincent Put the Donkey in a Meadow (And Went Into the Other)
Vincent Vergne
Cérémonie des César
Self - Presenter
Né
Self
Immoral Tales
André - Story 1
Claire's Knee
Vincent
Tout peut arriver
Fabrice