Fabrice Luchini
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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fabrice Luchini, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Movies (45)
Hugo
as Robert Zuchini
2026
Laïcité, l'exception française - 120 ans, et maintenant ?
as Self
2025
Natacha (Almost) Air Hostess
as Narrator
2025
Treasure Hunters: On the Tracks of Khufu
as Christian
2025
La Fontaine et le Confinement
2024
Marcello Mio
as Fabrice
2024
Céline Dion, la bande originale de sa vie
as Self - Guest
2024
The Empire
as Belzébuth
2024
The Baby
as Joseph
2023
The Crime Is Mine
as Judge Gustave Rabusset
2023
For Better and for Worse
as Jean Leroy
2023
By Heart
as Self
2022
Fabrice Luchini : des écrivains parlent d'argent
2022
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
as Self (archive footage)
2020
The Best Is Yet to Come
as Arthur Dreyfus
2019
Joan of Arc
as Roi Charles VII
2019
Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol
as Narrator (voice)
2019
Alice and the Mayor
as Paul Theraneau
2019
The Mystery of Henri Pick
as Jean Michel Rouche
2019
The Emperor of Paris
as Fouché
2018
A Man in a Hurry
as Alain
2018
Slack Bay
as André van Peteghem
2016
Courted
as Michel Racine
2015
Un début prometteur
as Francis Vauvel
2015
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
2014
A Visit to Hokusai
as Narrator
2014
Gemma Bovery
as Martin
2014
Cycling with Molière
as Serge Tanneur
2013
Luchini - Variations La Fontaine
as Self
2012
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
as Jules César
2012
In the House
as Germain
2012
The Women on the 6th Floor
as Jean-Louis Joubert
2011
Trophy Wife
as Robert Pujol
2010
My Father's Guests
as Arnaud
2010
A Day at the Museum
as Guard at the Malraux museum
2008
Le Point sur Robert
as Fabrice Luchini
2008
Stéphane Guillon - Portraits au vitriol (1ère salve)
as Self
2008
The Girl from Monaco
as Bertrand Beauvois
2008
Paris
as Roland Verneuil
2008
Moliere
as M. Jourdain
2007
Jean-Philippe
as Fabrice / Self
2006
La cloche a sonné
as Simon Arcos
2005
Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine
as Doctor Knock
2004
Intimate Strangers
as William
2004
The Cost of Living
as Brett
2003
