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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Movie | Marcello Mio | Fabrice | 2024-05-21 |
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Movie | The Baby | Joseph | 2023-09-20 |
Movie | Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff | Self (archive footage) | 2020-09-09 |
Movie | Alice and the Mayor | Paul Theraneau | 2019-05-18 |
Movie | The Mystery of Henri Pick | Jean Michel Rouche | 2019-03-06 |
Movie | Joan of Arc | Roi Charles VII | 2019-09-11 |
Movie | The Best Is Yet to Come | Arthur Dreyfus | 2019-12-04 |
Movie | Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol | Narrator (voice) | 2019-06-05 |
Movie | A Man in a Hurry | Alain | 2018-11-07 |
Movie | The Emperor of Paris | Fouché | 2018-12-19 |
Movie | Slack Bay | André van Peteghem | 2016-05-13 |
Movie | Un début prometteur | Francis Vauvel | 2015-09-30 |
Movie | Courted | Michel Racine | 2015-11-18 |
Movie | Gemma Bovery | Martin | 2014-09-10 |
Movie | A Visit to Hokusai | Narrator | 2014-10-21 |
Movie | Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui | 2014-12-13 | |
Movie | Cycling with Molière | Serge Tanneur | 2013-01-16 |
Movie | Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia | Jules César | 2012-10-17 |
Movie | In the House | Germain | 2012-09-26 |
Movie | Luchini - Variations La Fontaine | Self | 2012-10-22 |
Movie | The Women on the 6th Floor | Jean-Louis Joubert | 2011-02-16 |
Movie | My Father's Guests | Arnaud | 2010-03-31 |
Movie | Trophy Wife | Robert Pujol | 2010-11-10 |
Movie | The Girl from Monaco | Bertrand Beauvois | 2008-08-20 |
Movie | Paris | Roland Verneuil | 2008-02-20 |
Movie | Le Point sur Robert | Fabrice Luchini | 2008-11-17 |
Movie | Stéphane Guillon - Portraits au vitriol (1ère salve) | Self | 2008-10-07 |
Movie | A Day at the Museum | Un gardien musée Malraux | 2008-11-19 |
Movie | Moliere | M. Jourdain | 2007-01-31 |
Movie | Jean-Philippe | Fabrice / Self | 2006-04-05 |
Movie | La cloche a sonné | Simon Arcos | 2005-08-17 |
Movie | Intimate Strangers | William | 2004-02-05 |
Movie | The Cost of Living | Brett | 2003-07-30 |
Movie | Barnie's Minor Annoyances | Barnie | 2001-02-21 |
Movie | Les Enfoirés 1999 - Dernière édition avant l'an 2000 | 1999-02-13 | |
Movie | Nothing About Robert | Didier Temple | 1999-02-24 |
Movie | Keep It Quiet | Grégoire Jeancourt | 1999-10-20 |
Movie | Par cœur | Self | 1998-10-28 |
Movie | « Art » | Serge | 1998-12-28 |
Movie | An Air So Pure | Magnus | 1997-09-03 |
Movie | On Guard | Count Gonzague | 1997-12-03 |
Movie | Beaumarchais the Scoundrel | Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais | 1996-03-20 |
Movie | Men, Women: A User's Manual | Fabio Lini | 1996-08-28 |
Movie | The Juliette Year | Camille Prader | 1995-03-20 |
Movie | Colonel Chabert | Derville | 1994-09-21 |
Movie | The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque | Marc Rossignol, l’instituteur | 1993-02-10 |
Movie | Toxic Affair | The Analyst | 1993-05-26 |
Movie | All That... for This?! | Fabrice Lenormand | 1993-06-09 |
Movie | The Return of Casanova | Camille | 1992-05-12 |
Movie | Little Nothings | Lepetit | 1992-11-11 |
Movie | The Discreet | Antoine | 1990-11-21 |
Movie | Uranus | Jourdan | 1990-12-12 |
Movie | Alouette, je te plumerai | Jacques | 1988-04-27 |
Movie | The Color of the Wind | Serge | 1988-11-02 |
Movie | Les Oreilles entre les dents | Luc Fabri | 1987-07-08 |
Movie | Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle | Le marchand de tableau | 1987-02-04 |
Movie | Triple sec | 1986-01-01 | |
Movie | Family Business | Shady lawyer | 1986-03-19 |
Movie | Max My Love | Nicolas | 1986-10-22 |
Movie | Paradise Hotel | Arthur | 1986-04-15 |
Movie | Rouge-gorge | Frédéric | 1985-02-06 |
Movie | P.R.O.F.S. | Michel | 1985-09-18 |
Movie | Emmanuelle 4 | Oswaldo | 1984-02-15 |
Movie | Full Moon in Paris | Octave | 1984-08-29 |
Movie | Zig Zag Story | Bob Hemler | 1983-05-03 |
Movie | Lettre de la Sierra Morena | Don Quichotte | 1983-06-08 |
Movie | T'es folle ou quoi ? | Jean-François Sevran | 1982-01-06 |
Movie | The Aviator's Wife | Mercillat | 1981-03-04 |
Movie | Droit de Réponse | Self | 1981-12-12 |
Movie | Le Beau Monde | Jean-Pierre Davier | 1981-06-06 |
Movie | Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme | Arthur | 1980-04-16 |
Movie | Violette Nozière | Camus | 1978-05-24 |
Movie | Perceval | Perceval | 1978-10-08 |
Movie | Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre) | Vincent Vergne | 1976-05-12 |
Movie | Né | 1975-11-05 | |
Movie | Immoral Tales | André - Story 1 | 1974-08-28 |
Movie | Claire's Knee | Vincent | 1970-12-11 |