Brontis Jodorowsky (born 27 October 1962) is a Mexican-French actor and
theatre director. He is the son of Chilean-French writer, director and actor
Alejandro Jodorowsky and French actress Bernadette Landru.
Life and career
Jodorowsky was born in Mexico. His first film experience was a prominent role in his father's 1970 film ''
El Topo
''El Topo'' (, "The Mole") is a 1970 Mexican acid Western art film written, scored, directed by and starring Alejandro Jodorowsky. Characterized by its bizarre characters and occurrences, use of maimed and dwarf performers, and heavy doses of Ju ...
''.
When he was 12 years old, his father cast him in a planned film adaptation of ''
Dune
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'' by
Frank Herbert
Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. (October 8, 1920February 11, 1986) was an American science fiction author best known for the 1965 novel '' Dune'' and its five sequels. Though he became famous for his novels, he also wrote short stories and worked a ...
. He was trained to play the part of the novel's
protagonist
A protagonist () is the main character of a story. The protagonist makes key decisions that affect the plot, primarily influencing the story and propelling it forward, and is often the character who faces the most significant obstacles. If a st ...
,
Paul Atreides
Paul Atreides (; later known as Paul Muad'Dib, and later still as The Preacher) is a fictional character in the ''Dune'' universe created by Frank Herbert. Paul is the primary protagonist in the first two novels in the series, ''Dune'' (1965) ...
. He had been taught by
Jean-Pierre Vignau, a famous French coach in Japanese
jujitsu,
karate
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,
judo,
aikido, and also
knife and
sword combat. His training was intensive: 6 hours a day, seven days a week over a period of two years until the film project was shelved. Brontis described the training as painful and merciless.
Jodorowsky received his acting training in Parisian theatres and at the Conservatoire du XIVe. In 2011 he attended a three-month workshop at the
New York Film Academy and in 2013 graduated from the Studio Theatre D'Asnières in France.
He also has a career in theatre, directing and performing in numerous plays, most of them in Paris. Many of his works were presented at the ''Théâtre Du Soleil''. He is also known for his Atrides series of plays. (Atreides is both the name of descendants of the Greek mythological figure
Atreus
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and the name of the protagonist family in
Frank Herbert's ''Dune'' novels.)
In 1991 his daughter,
Alma Jodorowsky, was born. She is a French model, singer and actress.
In 2009, he wrote and directed a play with his father and was also an actor in ''Le Gorille'' (The Gorilla) which became one of his better-known pieces.
In the film ''
La Danza De La Realidad
''The Dance of Reality'' ( es, La danza de la realidad) is a 2013 Chilean- French semi-autobiographical musical fantasy drama film written, produced, and directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky, starring Brontis Jodorowsky, Pamela Flores, and Jeremias H ...
'' (The Dance Of Reality), he had to play the role of his grandfather whom he'd never known or seen in person since he died before Brontis was born. Through his father's direction of the film, he discovered much about his father and what he had endured over his lifetime. He reprised the role of Jaime Jodorowsky in the film's sequel, ''
Endless Poetry'', which, like ''La Danza De La Realidad'', was also inspired by his father's life experiences, this time focusing on Alejandro's youth and discovery of poetry.
Theatre
Plays (as director)
*2000:
Le Médecin volant
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(
Molière)
*2000: Qu’est-ce que ça peut faire (Christian Ferrari)
*2000:
Haute surveillance
''Deathwatch'' (french: Haute Surveillance) is a play written by Jean Genet in 1947, performed for the first time in Paris at the Théâtre des Mathurins in February 1949 under the direction of Jean Marchat.
Plot
Three prisoners are locked up in ...
(
Jean Genet
Jean Genet (; – ) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. In his early life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later became a writer and playwright. His major works include the novels ''The Thief's ...
)
*2006: L'Inattendu (Fabrice Melquiot)
*2009:
Pelléas et Mélisande (
Maurice Maeterlinck)
*2009: Le Gorille (Brontis Jodorowsky and
Alejandro Jodorowsky)
*2011:
Rigoletto (
Verdi)
*2011: L’Inattendu (Fabrice Melquiot)
Plays (as actor)
*1989: La Nuit miraculeuse (
Hélène Cixous)
*1990: Les Atrides:
Iphigénie à Aulis (
Euripides)
*1990: Les Atrides:
Agamemnon (
Eschylus)
*1991: Les Atrides:
Les Choéphores (Eschylus)
*1992: Les Atrides:
Les Euménides (Eschylus)
*1994: La Ville parjure ou le Réveil des Erinyes (Hélène Cixous)
*1995: Le Tartuffe (
Molière)
*1995: Anthropologies (Pablo Abad)
*1995:
Pierre et le loup (
Sergey Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev; alternative transliterations of his name include ''Sergey'' or ''Serge'', and ''Prokofief'', ''Prokofieff'', or ''Prokofyev''., group=n (27 April .S. 15 April1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, p ...
)
*1995:
Le Songe d'une nuit d'été
''Le songe d'une nuit d'été'' (''A Midsummer Night's Dream'') is an opéra-comique in three acts composed by Ambroise Thomas to a French libretto by Joseph-Bernard Rosier and Adolphe de Leuven. Although it shares the French title for Shakespeare ...
(Shakespeare)
*1995:
Macbeth
''Macbeth'' (, full title ''The Tragedie of Macbeth'') is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those w ...
(Shakespeare)
*1997: Le Bon Dieu de Manhattan (
Ingeborg Bachmann)
*1998: Giacomo le tyrannique (Giuseppe Manfridi)
*1998:
Peines d'amour perdues (Shakespeare)
*1999: Danser à Lughnasa de (Brian Friel)
*2000: L’Ultime Chant de Troie (Euripides, Eschylus,
Seneca and
Parouir Sévak)
*2001: Opéra panique (
Alejandro Jodorowsky)
*2001: L’Évangile selon Judas (From
The Bible)
*2001: Mon pauvre Fiedia (
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (, ; rus, Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Fyódor Mikháylovich Dostoyévskiy, p=ˈfʲɵdər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ dəstɐˈjefskʲɪj, a=ru-Dostoevsky.ogg, links=yes; 11 November 18219 ...
)
*2001:
En attendant Godot (
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and tragicomic expe ...
)
*2004:
Un homme est un homme (
Bertolt Brecht
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a pl ...
)
*2005:
Troïlus et Cressida (Shakespeare)
*2005: Merlin ou la terre dévastée (
Tankred Dorst)
*2006: Tragedy: a tragedy (
Will Eno
Will Eno (born 1965) is an American playwright based in Brooklyn, New York. His play, '' Thom Pain (based on nothing)'' was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 2005. His play ''The Realistic Joneses'' appeared on Broadway in 2014, wher ...
)
*2006:
La Marquise d'O
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La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to:
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* La (musical note), or A, the sixth note
* "L.A.", a song by Elliott Smith on ''Figure ...
(
Heinrich von Kleist)
*2009: Le Gorille (
Franz Kafka)
Filmography
He is also credited in the short film ''Echek'' in the "thanks" section.
Television series
*
''Largo Winch'' (2002)
Character: Landis
Episode: Flashback
* ''
Section de recherches
''Section de recherches ("Investigation Unit")'' is a French television series first broadcast on TF1 on May 11, 2006.
In Belgium, the series was shown on La Une from November 9, 2013.
Plot
The Investigation Unit is a special unit of the Natio ...
'' (2007)
Character: Patrick Venderlen
Episode: Vents contraires
Voice dub
* ''Matrimoni'' (1998)
Character: Paolo Sessanelli
References
External links
*
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1962 births
Living people
Mexican emigrants to France
Mexican male stage actors
Mexican male film actors
Mexican people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent
Mexican people of Chilean descent
20th-century Mexican male actors
21st-century Mexican male actors
French theatre directors