Vincent Macaigne (born 19 October 1978) is a French actor, theatre director and film director. He is also a screenwriter and playwright.

Life and career

Macaigne was raised in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...

, the son of a French businessman and an Iranian-born painter. He has an elder brother, who is a forensic doctor. He attended the CNSAD between 1999 and 2002, and staged his first play in 2004. Throughout the 2000s, he acted in several theatre productions and also wrote and staged a number of plays. He suffered two strokes at just thirty years old, one of which occurred after his 2009 staging of the theatrical adaptation of

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's ''

The Idiot ''The Idiot'' ( pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform rus, Идиот, Idiót) is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published serially in the journal ''The Russian Messenger'' in 1868–69. The title is an ...

''. In an interview, he said the stroke has had no lasting consequences to his health. His short film ''What We'll Leave Behind'' (''Ce qu'il restera de nous'') won the Grand Prix at the

Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival The Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (French: ''Festival international du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand'') is an international film festival dedicated to short films held annually in Clermont-Ferrand, France. History In ...

, and was nominated for the

César Award for Best Short Film The César Award for Best Short Film (french: César du meilleur film de court métrage) is an award presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma since 1992. Winners and nominees 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s See also *Academy ...

. In 2014, he received nominations for the

César Award for Most Promising Actor The César Award for Most Promising Actor (french: César du meilleur espoir masculin) is one of the César Awards, presented annually by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma to recognize the outstanding breakthrough performance of a yo ...

and the

Lumières Award for Most Promising Actor The Lumières Award for Most Promising Actor (french: Prix Lumières du meilleur espoir masculin) is a French annual award presented by the Académie des Lumières since 2000. Winners and nominees Winners are listed first with a blue background, ...

for his role in ''La Fille du 14 juillet''. His directorial feature film debut, ''Dom Juan'', is an adaptation of the play of the same name by

Molière Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (, ; 15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière (, , ), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and worl ...

. It was screened in the Cineasts of the Present section at the 2015

Locarno International Film Festival The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, ...

Filmography

As actor

As filmmaker

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Macaigne, Vincent 1978 births Living people People from Paris French male film actors French male stage actors 20th-century French male actors 21st-century French male actors French National Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni French theatre directors French film directors French male screenwriters French screenwriters 20th-century French dramatists and playwrights 21st-century French dramatists and playwrights