Bordeaux
Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefectur ...
) is a
French
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** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents
** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...
actor and producer mainly known for his roles in many romantic or detective television hit-series broadcast throughout the
French-speaking world
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's ''Agathe Koltès'' (2016-2019). His feature films include
Gabriel Axel
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Jean-Marie Besset
Jean-Marie Besset (born 1959) is a French contemporary playwright, translator and theater director.
He has been nominated ten times for the Molière award (France's Tony Award) - six times as Best Playwright and four times as Best Translator. He ...
À l'aventure
''À l'aventure'' is a 2008 French erotic drama film written and directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau. The film showed at the 2009 International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Plot
Sandrine, a young and childless woman, meets a friend for a sandwich lunch ...
'' (2009). Within the
English-speaking world
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, Binnard appeared in
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's ''
Modern Family
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'' and plays Laurent in ''
Emily in Paris
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''.
Early life
Binard grew up in the
seaside resort
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of Seignosse-le-Penon where his parents, sports teachers, managed the old public seawater pools. Passionate about
surfing
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, he declared:
''“As a teenager, the waves were an obsession. I dreamt of it every night. I saw surfers in my village as living gods. My parents had taught me very early on how to swim into the waves, but my father refused to see me practicing this 'smoky backpacker sport'. He eventually gave in, but we had already moved to
Lot-et-Garonne
Lot-et-Garonne (, oc, Ã’lt e Garona) is a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of Southwestern France. Named after the rivers Lot and Garonne, it had a population of 331,271 in 2019.Sud-Ouest, July 2017.
Education
At Marmande High School, Binard volunteered to form a theater group responding to the
literature
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teacher's request to try to "conjure isgreat shyness". He started in the theater at the age of fourteen and for several years explored different facets of acting: "the pleasure of acting never left me." He continued his theatrical journey in
Bordeaux
Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefectur ...
, where he also began studying to become a
physical education
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street theater
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via
improvisation
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, he extended his career by moving to
Paris
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in 1996 to take the
Jean Darnel
Jean Darnel (1923 – 20 November 2020) was a French actor and director.
Biography
Darnel grew up in the 1930s in Bayonne and Paris. Eager to become an actor, he introduced himself to Marcel Achard to ask him for advice. Achard directed him to ...
He has been working for several years for television (''Le Dernier Seigneur des Balkans'', ''Alice Nevers'', ''Le Ciel sur la tête'', ''Empreintes criminelles''...) and cinema (''
À l'aventure
''À l'aventure'' is a 2008 French erotic drama film written and directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau. The film showed at the 2009 International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Plot
Sandrine, a young and childless woman, meets a friend for a sandwich lunch ...
'', '' ID:A'').
In 2014, he portrayed the character of Brooklyn Cott on series '' Guidestones'' (season 2).
In Novembre 2014, he founded broadcasting production company Atelier K-plan which is based in
Bordeaux
Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefectur ...
.
Since 2016, he plays the role of Captain Fontaine on TV Series '' Agathe Koltès'' (