Francis Leplay
Biography
Francis Leplay is a French actor, film director and novelist. An alumnus of France's National Academy of Dramatic Arts and Sciences Po, Leplay began acting on television in episodes of the French detective series Julie Lescaut and Navarro. His first film role was in Laurence Ferreira Barbosa's J'ai horreur de l'amour (I Hate Love) in 1997. His career took off in the 2000s, and he soon started acting in films by directors including Sofia Coppola, Noémie Lvovsky, Arnaud Desplechin, and Benoît Jacquot as well as in the television series Spiral. Leplay has also acted in theater productions with directors Denis Podalydès and Lambert Wilson in venues including Lincoln Center, the Mossovet Theatre, and the Bouffes du Nord. The Éditions du Seuil published two of his novels, 2006's Après le spectacle, a work of autofiction comparing intermittent acting work and romantic uncertainty, and 2009's Samuel et Alexandre, which follows two men staking out the bounds of their friendship. In 2021, Leplay and French-American filmmaker Isidore Bethel co-directed the docufiction hybrid film Acts of Love, which premiered at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Source: Article "Francis Leplay" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Movies (43)
Prime Rush
as Guy
2025
Cerfa
2025
The End of the Iron Age
as Le Président de la République
2025
Robespierre
2024
The Good Teacher
as Mr. Musil
2024
Not My Type
as Le cadre Sacem
2022
Brother and Sister
as André Borkman
2022
Acts of Love
Director (Directing)
2021
My Best Part
2020
Opération Finot
as Philippe Rivera
2019
Who You Think I Am
as Serge
2019
A Violent Desire for Joy
as The Abbot
2018
Marie Antoinette: The Trial of a Queen
as Fouqier
2018
Ce que vivent les roses
as Yahn Quemener
2018
Jealous
as Nathalie's doctor
2017
Tomorrow and Thereafter
as Monsieur Lesieur
2017
Nelly
as Mathieu
2017
Kill Skills
as Our Friend
2016
Les Cowboys
as Train man
2015
The Clearstream Affair
as Lawyer Denis Robert & Les Arènes
2015
3 Hearts
as Le médecin
2014
Youth
as Frédéric
2013
Bright Days Ahead
as Le prof d'oenologie
2013
Looking for Hortense
as Marco
2012
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
as Le Maître de philosophie
2012
Farewell, My Queen
as Le comte d'Artois
2012
Rien dans les poches
as 'Le lézard' #1
2008
Seule
as Antoine Nardier
2008
Intrusions
as Maître Pierre Marsac
2008
Modern Love
as Hervé
2008
Le Mental de l'équipe
2008
The Resistance: Live Free or Die
as Gilbert Lesage
2008
The Price to Pay
as Agent immobilier
2007
Marie Antoinette
as Doctor Delivery Provence
2006
Zim and Co
as Inspecteur commissariat
2005
Kings & Queen
as Christian, le félon
2004
Clémence
as Alain Dorcières
2003
Only Girls
as Philippe Jean
2003
Ma caméra et moi
as Le jeune homme
2002
Love Bites
as Photographer
2001
Jamel Show
as Self
1999
Time Regained
as Employee Jupien
1999
I Hate Love
as Association Member
1997
