Fabrice Luchini

Fabrice Luchini
Fabrice Luchini at the 35th César Awards
Born	Robert Luchini (1951-11-01) 1 November 1951 Île-de-France, Paris, France
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1969–present

Fabrice Luchini (born 1 November 1951) is a French stage and film actor. He is a well-know figure in France, notable for his love of French literature and for the quality of his acting, making great success in theatres and on stage (Potiche, The Women on the 6th Floor, In the House).

Biography

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 (director) 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.

He is in a domestic partnership and has one daughter, Emma Luchini.

Filmography

• Alceste à bicyclette (2013)
• Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia (2012)
• In the House (2012)
• Les femmes du 6ème étage (2011)
• Potiche (2010)
• La fille de Monaco (2009)
• Paris (2008)
• Molière (2007)
• Jean-Philippe (2006) as Fabrice
• La Cloche a sonné (2005)
• Confidences trop intimes (aka Intimate Strangers) (2004)
• Le Coût de la vie (2003)
• Barnie et ses petites contrariétés (2001)
• Pas de scandale (1999)
• Rien sur Robert (1999)
• Le Bossu (1997)
• Un air si pur... (1997)
• Hommes, femmes, mode d'emploi (1996)
• Beaumarchais, l'insolent (1996)
• L'Année Juliette (1995)
• Le Colonel Chabert (1994)
• Toxic Affair (1993)
• L'Arbre, le maire et la médiathèque (1993)
• Tout ça... pour ça! (1993)
• Riens du tout (1992)
• Le Retour de Casanova (1992)
• Uranus (1990)
• La Discrète (1990)
• La Couleur du vent (1988)
• Alouette, je te plumerai (1988)
• 4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle (1987)
• Les Oreilles entre les dents (1987)
• Max mon amour (1986)
• Conseil de famille (1986)
• Hôtel du paradis (1986)
• Triple sec (1986)
• P.R.O.F.S. (1985)
• Rouge-gorge (1985)
• Les Nuits de la pleine lune (1984)
• Emmanuelle 4 (1984)
• Zig Zag Story (1983)
• Il ne faut jurer de rien (1983)
• Lettre de la Sierra Morena (1983)
• T'es folle ou quoi? (1982)
• Jimmy Jazz (1982)
• La Femme de l'aviateur (1981)
• La Forêt désenchantée (1981)
• Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme (1980)
• Perceval le Gallois (1978)
• Violette Nozière (1978)
• Les Écrans déchirés (1976)
• Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre) (1975)
• Né (1975)
• Contes immoraux (1974)
• Valparaiso, Valparaiso (1971)
• Le Genou de Claire (1970)
• Tout peut arriver (1969)

Television

• La Chaîne of Claude Santelli – Laurent (1979)
• L'Echafaud magique: Fantômas of Claude Chabrol – Bonardin (1980)
• L'Etreinte du diable: Fantômas of Juan-Luis Bunuel – Bonardin (1980)
• Le Beau Monde of Michel Polac – Jean-Pierre Davin (1981)
• Adieu la vie of Maurice Dugowson – Kowal (1986)
• Tous en boîte – (TV series – 6 episodes by Charles Nemès – Minimax (1986)
• Série noire (TV series): La Fée Carabine of Yves Boisset – Pastor (1987)
• L'Argent du mur of Jean-François Delassus – Bernd (1988)
• Au nom du peuple français of Maurice Dugowson – Robespierre (1988)
• Les Nuits révolutionnaires (TV series of 7 episodes by Charles Brabant) – Le huguenot sans culotte
• Six crimes sans assassin of Bernard Stora – Simon Lampias (1990)

Theatre

His plays are often the reading, the interpretation with a comic sense of French literature.

• En attendant Godot (1978)
• Troïlus et Cressida (1979)
• De toutes les couleurs (1982)
• Voyage au bout de la nuit (1986)
• Le Veilleur de nuit (1986)
• La Valse du hasard (1986)
• Le Secret (1987)
• Voyage au bout de la nuit (1987)
• Voyage au bout de la nuit (1988)
• Une folie électrique (1989)
• Deux femmes pour un fantôme and La Baby-sitter (1990)
• La Société de chasse (1991)
• Partenaires (1993)
• « Art » (1994)
• Fabrice Luchini dit des textes de Baudelaire, Hugo, La Fontaine, Nietzsche (1996)
• Un cœur simple (1996)
• L’Arrivée à New-York (2000)
• Écoute mon ami (et autres textes de Louis Jouvet) (2002)
• Knock ou le triomphe de la médecine (2002)
• Fabrice Luchini dit des textes de La Fontaine, Nietzsche, Céline, Baudelaire (2005)
• Molly (2005)
• Le Point sur Robert (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
• Fabrice Luchini lit Philippe Muray (2010, 2011, 2012)
• La Fontaine (2011)
• Une heure de tranquillité (2013)

Literature

• In 2010, Fabrice Luchini wrote the preface of two books. First in A la rencontre de Sacha Guitry, published by éditions Oxus and Seul avec tous by Laurent Terzieff, published by Presses de la Renaissance.
• In 2011, he collaborated in a book by Philippe Muray, published by les Cahiers d'histoire de la philosophie (éditions du Cerf).
• Also in 2011, he released Fabrice Luchini lit Fragment d'un discours amoureux through Audiolib.
• In 2012, he released Variations (La Fontaine & Baudelaire) on CD and DVD on Barclay / Universal Music France

Awards and nominations

He have been nominated seven times for the César Awards and three times for the Molières.

• Prix Jean-Gabin (1991)
• César Award for Best Supporting Actor, for Tout ça... pour ça ! (1994)
• Prix du Brigadier (2002)
• Saint George d'argent at Moscow International Film Festival (2007)

External links

• Fabrice Luchini at the Internet Movie Database