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Benjamin Biolay
Born: 20th Jan 1973 Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, France
Dept: Acting
Benjamin Biolay (born 20 January 1973) is a French singer, musician, songwriter, record producer and actor. He is the brother of singer Coralie Clément—whose first three albums he wrote and produced—and the ex-husband of Chiara Mastroianni, the daughter of Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni.
His low-key vocal style is somewhat similar to French pop star Étienne Daho. With the singer Keren Ann, whose first two albums he co-wrote and produced, he contributed several songs to Chambre avec Vue, the successful comeback album of singer Henri Salvador, and has since worked as a writer, arranger or producer for other icons of French music, including Juliette Gréco, Julien Clerc, Françoise Hardy, Vanessa Paradis and Nolwenn Leroy.
He wrote or performed most of the songs on the 2004 soundtrack to Clara et Moi by Arnaud Viard, and released the album Home with his wife the same year. After two more rock oriented albums in 2005 and 2007 he was dropped by his record company and began working on his first independent release, La Superbe, released on Naïve records in 2009. This was followed by the soundtrack album Pourquoi tu pleures in 2011 and Vengeance in 2012.
Benjamin was married to actress and singer Chiara Mastroianni from 2002 to 2005; they have a daughter, Anna, born 22 April 2003.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 70
Film: 48 (69%)
Television: 22 (31%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Horror, Family
Filmography
2025
More than thirty years ago, in January 1993, Florent Pagny was part of the adventure of the very first "Taratata." Since then, his voice, his freedom, ... view
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Self
2024
Pressured from all sides by the figure of her father, Chiara Mastroianni decides to bring him back to life through her own self. She goes by the name ... view
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Benjamin
2024
France, 1870s. Rosalie is a young woman unlike any other. She hides a secret: she was born with a face and body covered in hair. She’s concealed her ... view
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Barcelin
Original title: Quelques jours pas plus
2024
After being reassigned from music to field reporting, a critic goes to a refugee camp near Paris during an evacuation. He experiences police violence ... view
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Arthur
Mar 2024 (first aired)
The stars of French football are celebrating the end of the season with a high-profile party full of glitz and glamour. But a scandal erupts when star ... view
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François Marens (6 ep.)
Original title: Un Hiver en été
2023
It’s summer and France is hit by a polar cold. Ten lone and lost souls find each other, a profound meeting as a last chance to hope and fear, to lov ... view
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Franck
Original title: Comme une actrice
2023
Anna is a talented and recognized actress. Arriving in her forties, she is going through a difficult time in her professional and personal life. She t ... view
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Antoine
2023
Documentary on the French musician-singer. ... view
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Self
Original title: La ligne
2023
Margaret, 35, has a history of violent behaviour which has cost her a romantic relationship. She has moved back in with her mother Christina, a fragil ... view
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Julien
2022
Musical Christmas Special hosted by Benjamin Biolay. ... view
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Self
Original title: Stella est amoureuse
2022
For Stella, it’s her final year. But she says she doesn’t care! That year, she discovers the famous Parisian club, the Bains Douches, 80’s and i ... view
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Serge Vlaminck
Sep 2022 (first aired)
Talk show hosted by Léa Salamé, featuring incisive, funny, and surprising personalities debating current events in culture, society, politics, and t ... view
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Self - Guest (1 ep.)
Original title: Le Monde d'hier
2022
A moral tale and a political thriller: a few days before the term of her mandate, the President must make a major decision concerning the destiny of F ... view
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Didier Jansen
2022
Imagine a world where the worst behaviour you could ever have is to forget your store's loyalty card in your other trousers...that's what happens to A ... view
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Membre du comité de soutien
Nov 2021 (first aired)
Police detective hunts serial killer while dealing with disintegrating marriage, teen daughter who hates her, and violent temper "blackouts". ... view
Character:
Julien Lacoste (8 ep.)
2021
A celebrity journalist, juggling her busy career and personal life, has her life over-turned by a freak car accident. ... view
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Fred de Meurs
2021
Paris, the late 1960s. Madame Claude is at the head of a flourishing business dedicated to prostitution that gives her power over both the French poli ... view
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Chief of Police
Original title: Les Apparences
2020
Ève and Henri are among the happy few of the French community in Vienna. They are “la crème de la crème”. The perfect picture crumbles when Èv ... view
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Henry
2020
Ben is devastated when his wife asks for a divorce. While everyone chooses her side, Ben comes across Patrick, an old friend from college, recently di ... view
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Blaise
May 2020 (first aired)
The owner of a Paris jazz club gets tangled up with dangerous criminals as he fights to protect his business, his band and his teenage daughter. ... view
Character:
Franck Lévy (4 ep.)
Original title: Un jour bien ordinaire
2019
May 1, 1999. Romain's first day in an unknown world, that of porn. In this environment, totally in the hands of women, he is one of the only men. Some ... view
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Original title: Chambre 212
2019
After 20 years of marriage, Maria decides to leave her husband. She moves into room 212 at the hotel across the street, with a bird’s-eye view of he ... view
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Richard Warrimer 40 ans
Dec 2018 (first aired)
Singers, actors, TV hosts, athletes and comedians: in each episode, several of them will have to seat in the already iconic SECRET SONG chair, in the ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
Original title: Numéro Une
2017
A brilliant and determined female engineer is approached by a network of powerful women with an offer to help become the head of a CAC 40 firm. The co ... view
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Marc Ronsin
Original title: La Douleur
2017
In the last days of the Nazi-occupied France, writer Marguerite Duras awaits the return of her husband, Robert Antelme, arrested for being a Resistanc ... view
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Dionys Mascolo
Original title: Fleur de Tonnerre
2017
In 1800, Brittany is on its knees, overwhelmed by the regime in place and by the omnipotent clergy. It founders in an economic slump without end in si ... view
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Matthieu Veron
2016
Maureen, mid-20s, is a personal shopper for a media celebrity. The job pays for her stay in Paris, a city she refuses to leave until she makes contact ... view
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Victor Hugo
Sep 2016 (first aired)
Quotidien (nicknamed "The French Show with the Good Lighting" abroad) is a French daily infotainment television program broadcast in the early evening ... view
Character:
Self - Guest (1 ep.)
Original title: Irréprochable
2016
Constance, a 40-years-old real estate agent, gets fired from her job. With no options left, she contacts her former boss, from the small agency where ... view
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Gilles
2016
A 30-year-old woman, Victoire, the youngest member of the famous Bonhomme family and the tribe's well-behaved child, finally decides to emancipate her ... view
Character:
Moy
Original title: L'homme d'après
2016
A couple faces the difficulties of creating a life together and find happiness. Should Suzanne run away from her man to be at peace? Would a new lover ... view
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Paul
2016
Okay, Marie is a little tired of the insouciance of her husband Sam, framework sup unemployed for 2 years. Agree, it is very tempted to be seduced by ... view
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Antoine
Original title: La Dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil
2015
She’s the most beautiful, most short-sighted, most sentimental, most perplexing, most obstinate, most untrustworthy and most troubling of heroines. ... view
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Michel Caravaille
Original title: L'Art de la fugue
2015
Patrick, a travel agent in his early 30s, lives with Arthur, an immigration lawyer; but for a long time, Patrick has been sleeping on an air mattress ... view
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Gérard
2014
Gaby mustn’t be left alone at night. Yet that’s exactly what her boyfriend Vincent does, to test her love for him. She struggles against her natur ... view
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Nicolas
Original title: G.H.B.
2014
A reflection on love and pleasure experienced by three women, set in France, New York, and Shanghai. ... view
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L'amoureux
Original title: Office du tourisme
2014
When Agathe moves to Paris, she discovers city life, liberty, and love. But the city's picture-perfect scenery and the dreamy soundtrack of the young ... view
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The taxi driver
Original title: Doutes - Chronique du sentiment politique
2013
Two couples, Chris Bailey and Judith Lazard, along with Paul Adler and Albertine Langlois, meet for dinner on the 9th of July 2006, the night of the F ... view
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Paul Alder
Original title: Au bout du conte
2013
Laura is still waiting for Prince Charming at the age of 24. So when Sandro appears at a party, exactly like her Prince would in her dreams, she think ... view
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Maxime
2013
Marcus and his brother Antoine head to Argentina for their cousin’s wedding. They plan to explore all that Buenos Aires has to offer before making t ... view
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Xavier
2011
Sylvie Neige is 35. An only child, she lives and works on her parents' farm. The only entertainment she allows herself is a drama class held in the ne ... view
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Gabriel
Original title: Pourquoi tu pleures ?
2011
Nervous about his upcoming wedding, a man faces temptation from another woman. ... view
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Arnaud
2011
Antoine is forty years old. Happily married to a woman he loves, father to two beautiful children, a brilliant lawyer, one could say that he has made ... view
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Alain
Original title: La Meute
2010
In the middle of a snowy no man's land, Charlotte picks up Max, a hitchhiker; they stop in a truck-stop restaurant, and when Max doesn't come back fro ... view
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Max
Sep 2009 (first aired)
Every day live on FRANCE 5, Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine and her team receive those who make the news. In the second part, the program welcomes, around a m ... view
Character:
Self - Guest (1 ep.)
2008
Paris, 1977. Eleven year old Stella knows poker better than grammar when she starts the year at a prestigious new school. There, she discovers the pos ... view
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Serge, le père de Stella
2008
Alexandrine, 35, who everyone nicknames Didine, peacefully goes with the flow, the opposite of her best friend Muriel. In this way, she one day crosse ... view
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François
Original title: Sang froid
2007
The meeting between a fragile woman and a depressed soldier builds a dangerous alliance. ... view
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Tony
Nov 2006 (first aired)
Salut les Terriens! is a French talk show hosted by Thierry Ardisson, launched on Canal+ on November 4, 2006, and then moved to C8 on September 10, 20 ... view
Character:
Self - Guest (1 ep.)
Original title: Pourquoi (pas) le Brésil
2004
A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book ada ... view
Character:
Self
May 2002 (first aired)
Durch die Nacht mit … is a German documentary film television series produced by ZDF for Franco-German television channel ARTE. Locations are mainly ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
Jan 2002 (first aired)
The show features an interview with a famous personality from the world of politics, economics or culture. ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
Oct 2001 (first aired)
Star Academy is a French reality television show produced by the Dutch company Endemol. It consists of a contest of young singers. It spawned an equal ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
Unknown/various (3 ep.)
Aug 2001 (first aired)
A French humorous game show taking place in a burger restaurant which is managed by the TV host. ... view
Character:
Self (4 ep.)
Jan 2000 (first aired)
The NRJ Music Awards are an awards ceremony broadcast on television and radio. It was created in 2000 by the NRJ radio station in partnership with the ... view
Character:
Self - Nominated (1 ep.)
Jan 1993 (first aired)
Taratata was a French TV show showcasing live and pre-recorded footage of current rock acts. Presented by Nagui since its début in 1993, the show was ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
