Clovis Cornillac (born 16 August 1968) is a French actor, film director, and screenwriter.
Life and career
Clovis Cornillac was born to actors
Myriam Boyer
Myriam Boyer (born 23 May 1948) is a French actress. She appeared in more than eighty films and television shows since 1970. At the age of 18, she married with whom she had a son, Clovis Cornillac. From 1975 until his death in 1999 she was marri ...
and Roger Cornillac. He started studying theatre at the age of 14.
He made his debut in cinema in 1984 in
Robin Davis
Robin may refer to:
Animals
* Australasian robins, red-breasted songbirds of the family Petroicidae
* Many members of the subfamily Saxicolinae (Old World chats), including:
** European robin (''Erithacus rubecula'')
**Bush-robin
** Forest ...
's ''Outlaws''. He was noticed by
Dominique Besnehard
Dominique Besnehard (; born 5 February 1954) is a French actor, film producer, casting director, writer and talent manager. He has appeared in more than 80 films and television shows since 1975. He starred in the 1983 film '' À nos amours'', wh ...
, who introduced him to
Peter Brook
Peter Stephen Paul Brook (21 March 1925 – 2 July 2022) was an English theatre and film director. He worked first in England, from 1945 at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, from 1947 at the Royal Opera House, and from 1962 for the Royal Shak ...
at the
Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
The Bouffes du Nord is a theatre at 37 bis, boulevard de la Chapelle, in the 10th arrondissement of Paris located near the Gare du Nord. It has been listed since 1993 as a ''monument historique'' by the French Ministry of Culture.
History
Founde ...
. Cornillac performed in Brook's stage adaptation of
''Le Mahâbharata''.
Cornillac was married to
Caroline Proust
Caroline Proust (born 18 November 1967) is a French classically trained actress best known to international audiences for her role as Captain Laure Berthaud in the French TV series ''Spiral''. She has also appeared in the TV series ''The Tunnel ...
from 1994 to 2010, with whom he had twin daughters. He married actress Lilou Fogli in 2013, with whom he has a son, Nino, born in 2013.
Filmography
As actor
As director/screenwriter
Theatre
* 1984: ''Une lune pour les déshérités'' by Alain Françon
* 1990-1991: ''La dame de chez Maxim's'' by[Alain Françon
* 1997: ''Edward II'' by Alain Françon
* 1997: ''Les Petites Heures'' by Alain Françon
* 1998: ''Surfeurs'' by Xavier Durringer
* 2014: ''La Contrebasse''
Awards and honours
* Made a Knight of the ''Ordre des Arts et des Lettres'' by Culture minister Jean-Jacques Aillagon in 2004.
* 2005: Prix Jean Gabin
* 2005: César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for ''Mensonges et trahisons et plus si affinités...''
References
External links
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1968 births
Living people
Mass media people from Lyon
French male film actors
French male stage actors
20th-century French male actors
21st-century French male actors
French male television actors
Best Supporting Actor César Award winners
French film directors
French male screenwriters
French screenwriters