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Fabrice Luchini
Born: 1st Nov 1951 Paris, France
Dept: Acting
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.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 107
Film: 99 (93%)
Television: 8 (7%)
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Filmography
2026
On the day of his retirement, Émile, a literature professor in Dieppe, gives his young students one last lesson on literature and love, encouraging t ... view
Character:
Émile
Original title: Victor comme tout le monde
2026
Imbued with Victor Hugo, the actor Robert Zucchini searches for his place between the stage and life. Every evening, he fills theaters by sharing his ... view
Character:
Robert Zuchini
2025
The 1905 law proclaiming the separation of church and state is 120 years old. This law affirms freedom of conscience and religious freedom. It is cons ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: Natacha (presque) hôtesse de l'air
2025
France, 1963. Since she was a child, Natacha has dreamed of freedom and adventure. Her dream has a name: air hostess. She admires the women who fly th ... view
Character:
Narrator
Original title: Le Secret de Khéops
2025
An eccentric archaeologist goes on an unexpected journey to find King Khufu's lost treasure with his daughter and grandson. ... view
Character:
Christian
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
Character:
Fabrice
Original title: L'Empire
2024
In a quiet fishing village on northern France's Opal Coast, the birth of a peculiar child sparks a hidden war between extraterrestrial forces of good ... view
Character:
Belzébuth
Sep 2023 (first aired)
A relentlessly ambitious working-class man becomes one of France's most controversial public figures in this fictionalized biopic about Bernard Tapie. ... view
Character:
Marcel Loiseau (7 ep.)
Original title: La Petite
2023
Joseph learns that his son and his companion have just perished in an accident. They were expecting a child via a surrogate mother in Belgium. What wi ... view
Character:
Joseph
Original title: Mon crime
2023
In 1930s Paris, Madeleine, a pretty, young, penniless, and talentless actress, is accused of murdering a famous producer. Helped by her best friend, P ... view
Character:
Judge Rabusset
Original title: Un homme heureux
2023
Jean has been the conservative mayor of a small town for several years. He intends to run for another term. Edith, his wife, is the paragon of the tra ... view
Character:
Jean Leroy
Original title: Par cœurs
2022
It’s summertime, 2021. Isabelle Huppert plays Lioubov, Chekhov’s unforgettably heroine in The Cherry Orchard. In a near theatre, Fabrice Luchini r ... view
Character:
Self
2022
For the first time on television, Fabrice Luchini, the one-man band, in turn actor, despiser and worshiper of literature, has agreed to leave an audio ... view
Character:
Sep 2020 (first aired)
This reality series follows the Kretz family and their luxury property business as they help clients buy and sell fabulous homes in France and abroad. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
2020
Laurent Terzieff was more than a good actor, after having been a real "star" in the cinema, through his professional choices, he gradually became a re ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)
Original title: Le Meilleur reste à venir
2019
Following a huge misunderstanding, two friends always decide to tackle everything to make up for lost time. ... view
Character:
Arthur Dreyfus
Original title: Jeanne
2019
In the 15th century, both France and England stake a blood claim for the French throne. Believing that God had chosen her, young Joan leads the army o ... view
Character:
Roi Charles VII
2019
The works of Marcel Pagnol are a veritable monument of French cultural heritage. Based on previously unseen archive material, film extracts, novels, p ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
Original title: Alice et le Maire
2019
The mayor of Lyon, Paul Théraneau, is in a delicate position. After 30 years in politics, he is running out of ideas and is faced with a feeling of e ... view
Character:
Paul Theraneau
Original title: Le Mystère Henri Pick
2019
In a bizarre Breton library that collects rejected, never published manuscripts, a young editor discovers a novel that she considers a masterpiece. It ... view
Character:
Jean Michel Rouche
Original title: L'Empereur de Paris
2018
Paris, France, early 19th century. The legendary convict François Vidocq lives in disguise trying to escape from a tragic past that torments him. Whe ... view
Character:
Fouché
Original title: Un homme pressé
2018
The story revolves around Alain, a busy businessman who is always in a rush. In his life, there is no room for spare time or family. But one day, he s ... view
Character:
Alain
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 (1 ep.)
Self - Guest (1 ep.)
Original title: Ma Loute
2016
Summer, 1910. Inspectors Machin and Malfoy investigate the mysterious disappearances of several tourists on the beautiful beaches of Slack Bay, where ... view
Character:
André van Peteghem
Original title: L'Hermine
2015
When a feared judge of the French court, Xavier Racine, encounters a French-Danish juror, Ditte Lorensen-Coteret, at a murder trial, their shared past ... view
Character:
Michel Racine
Oct 2015 (first aired)
At a top Paris talent firm, agents scramble to keep their star clients happy—and their business afloat—after an unexpected crisis. ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
2015
Tired of life, Martin returns to live with his romantic father and idealist little brother Gabriel.Martin will try hard to warn Gabriel about falling ... view
Character:
Francis Vauvel
Original title: Visite à Hokusai
2014
A look at the work of Japanese woodblock printing artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). ... view
Character:
Narrator
2014
Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple movi ... view
Character:
Martin
Original title: Alceste à bicyclette
2013
Serge Tanneur is at the pinnacle of his acting career when he decides to turn his back on show business and become a hermit living off of France’s A ... view
Character:
Serge Tanneur
Original title: Astérix & Obélix : Au service de Sa Majesté
2012
Asterix crosses the channel to help second-cousin Anticlimax face down Julius Caesar and invading Romans. ... view
Character:
Jules César
Original title: Dans la maison
2012
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French te ... view
Character:
Germain
Original title: Les Femmes du 6e étage
2011
Paris, in the early 1960s. Jean-Louis Joubert is a serious but uptight stockbroker, married to Suzanne, a starchy class-conscious woman and father of ... view
Character:
Jean-Louis Joubert
Original title: Potiche
2010
In 1977 France, tightfisted factory owner Robert Pujol is so shocked when his workers strike for higher wages that he suffers a heart attack. His acqu ... view
Character:
Robert Pujol
Original title: Les Invités de mon père
2010
A human-rights activist takes in an illegal immigrant and her daughter, then shocks his family when they learn that he has married the sexy 28-year-ol ... view
Character:
Arnaud
Original title: Musée haut, musée bas
2008
Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par ... view
Character:
Guard at the Malraux museum
2008
Les portraits désormais cultes de Stéphane Guillon sur Canal+ . S'adressant aux invités, il ose un ton inédit, parfois irrévérencieux mais toujo ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: La Fille de Monaco
2008
A brilliant and neurotic attorney goes to Monaco to defend a famous criminal. But, instead of focusing on the case, he falls for a beautiful she-devil ... view
Character:
Bertrand Beauvois
2008
Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has ... view
Character:
Roland Verneuil
Original title: Molière
2007
Molière, a down-and-out actor-cum-playwright up to his ears in debt. When the wealthy Jourdain offers to cover that debt so that Molière's theatrica ... view
Character:
M. Jourdain
Sep 2006 (first aired)
On n'est pas couché was a French talk show broadcast on France 2 on Saturdays at 11 p.m., hosted by Laurent Ruquier assisted by various columnists. ... view
Character:
Self - Guest (1 ep.)
2006
A bourgeois office drone whose raison d'être is the music of French rocker Johnny Hallyday awakens one day in an alternate universe where the famed m ... view
Character:
Fabrice / Self
2005
Simon Arcos has a unique method for overcoming stress and the sores of life. Jean, Léa, Nathalie, Yolaine, Antoine and Hervé signed up for one of hi ... view
Character:
Simon Arcos
Original title: Confidences trop intimes
2004
Because she picked the wrong door, Anna ends up confessing her marriage problems to a financial adviser named William Faber. Touched by her distress, ... view
Character:
William
Original title: Le Coût de la vie
2003
Une héritière qui n'arrive pas à hériter, un radin qui ne peut rien dépenser, un petit garçon qui trouve un billet dans la rue, un restaurateur ... view
Character:
Brett
Original title: Un jour dans la vie du cinéma français
2002
Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, dir ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: Barnie et ses petites contrariétés
2001
Barnie lives in Calais but works in London. Everyday, he takes the Eurostar to go to his office. Although he is married to Lucie, Barnie has two lover ... view
Character:
Barnie
Original title: Pas de scandale
1999
A businessman convicted of a white-collar crime becomes a changed person upon his release from prison. ... view
Character:
Grégoire Jeancourt
Original title: Rien sur Robert
1999
Didier never knew that a wrong film review of a film which he did not bother to watch would land him in numerous troubles. ... view
Character:
Didier Temple
1998
The director filmed and followed Fabrice Luchini during his performances at the theater. Alone on stage, he speaks, recites, narrates and plays the pr ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: Le Bossu
1997
France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful relative, a ... view
Character:
Count Gonzague
Original title: Un air si pur...
1997
In the midst of WW I, a doctor and a lawyer team up to turn a ramshackle old mountain chateau into a sanatorium/health spa that caters to the afflicte ... view
Character:
Magnus
Original title: Hommes, femmes : Mode d'emploi
1996
Benoit Blanc loves living, he loves women, he loves daring. He is a famous businessman who suffers from stomach-ache. Fabiolini, a would-be actor, is ... view
Character:
Fabio Lini
Original title: Beaumarchais, l'insolent
1996
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities ... view
Character:
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
Original title: L'Année Juliette
1995
Camille Prader, back from a physicians' meeting, is waiting for his suitcase on the Airport conveyor belt. Clémentine, his girlfriend of the day, has ... view
Character:
Camille Prader
Original title: Le Colonel Chabert
1994
When Colonel Chabert returns from the war, he discovers that he has lost everything. ... view
Character:
Derville
Original title: Tout ça… pour ça !
1993
The plot is about a trial against three men who tried to earn loads of money by illegal methods to get to Canada and about the lawyers and the judge w ... view
Character:
Fabrice Lenormand
1993
In this erstwhile comedy, Penelope (Isabelle Adjani) is already sufficiently unsettled by the fact that she is no longer a top model, and must cast ar ... view
Character:
The Analyst
Original title: L'Arbre, le Maire et la Médiathèque
1993
The socialist mayor of a small village in France dreams of building an arts center but he runs up against some opposition. ... view
Character:
Marc Rossignol, l’instituteur
Original title: Riens du tout
1992
Lepetit, an ambitious and determined man, is named the new CEO of a department store. His mission is to improve the store's financial position. He dec ... view
Character:
Lepetit
Original title: Le retour de Casanova
1992
After many years of rambling across Europe the aging Giacomo Casanova is impoverished. He wants to return to the Republic of Venice but he doesn't dar ... view
Character:
Camille
1990
After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The ... view
Character:
Jourdan
Original title: La Discrète
1990
There is an author who has been dumped by his girlfriend and has no inspiration for a next novel. In an attempt to find a solution to both crises, he, ... view
Character:
Antoine
Original title: Voyage au bout de la nuit
1990
Alone on stage, at the dawn of his forties, Fabrice Luchini renders the reflections of the suburban doctor Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Benoît Jacquot, w ... view
Character:
Self
1990
A legendary police commissioner is at the edge of writing his memoirs when he asked to help out with solving a locked room mystery where two people ar ... view
Character:
Simon
Original title: La Couleur du vent
1988
Louise, literary advisor to the Cercle Editions, receives a large manuscript from the United States. Upset by the reading of this book, she begins an ... view
Character:
Serge
Original title: Alouette, je te plumerai
1988
An old con-man fakes an illness and takes advantage of the kindness of one of his nurses. ... view
Character:
Jacques
1987
An assassin signs his crimes by cutting off the ears of his victims which he places between their teeth. In order to proceed with his arrest, an exper ... view
Character:
Luc Fabri
Original title: 4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle
1987
Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University ... view
Character:
Le marchand de tableau
Original title: Max mon amour
1986
The wife of a British diplomat in Paris takes a chimpanzee as her lover. ... view
Character:
Nicolas
Original title: Hôtel du Paradis
1986
A diverse group of guests gather in a small hotel in Paris to contemplate the state of their lives in this pretentious drama. Joseph Goldman (Fernando ... view
Character:
Arthur
Original title: Conseil de famille
1986
A recently released safecracker returns to stealing in order to support his family. After several successful thefts, he decides to induct his teenage ... view
Character:
Shady Lawyer
1985
A clique of four young teachers at a high school looks critically at their colleagues. To avoid falling in the same routine, they bring new ideas into ... view
Character:
Michel
Original title: Rouge-gorge
1985
After graduating from high school where she was a boarder, Reine Ducasse decides to settle down with her rich father Louis in his luxurious apartment. ... view
Character:
Frédéric
Original title: Les Nuits de la pleine lune
1984
Feeling suffocated by a possessive boyfriend, work and suburban life, a young woman starts spending the weekends in her Paris apartment in order to re ... view
Character:
Octave
1984
In order to escape from her former lover Marc, Sylvia goes to Brazil where Dr. Santamo transforms her into the beautiful Emmanuelle... ... view
Character:
Oswaldo
1983
Don Quichotte (Luchini) is a modern filmmaker with views on the perfect film. Sancho Pança (Risch) is systematically condradicting Quichotte, whose f ... view
Character:
Don Quichotte
1983
The lives of three Parisians - a color-blind painter, a radio show host and a perverted photographer - intertwine and go hilariously out of control. ... view
Character:
Bob Hemler
1983
They are between 14 and 17 years old and live with other teenagers in a home in the heart of the Vosges forest. All of them have been placed there by ... view
Character:
1982
Dominique Lombardi is news director of a regional TV station. A homosexual, he has a secret relationship with his young protégé, Jean-François Sevr ... view
Character:
Jean-François Sevran
1981
"Droit de Réponse" (Right of Reply) is a French debate program broadcast between December 12, 1981 and September 19, 1987 on the TF1 channel, present ... view
Character:
Self
1981
Jean Pierre, a young Parisian salesman, decides to go on vacation by hitchhiking at random. Taken as a jaguar by a rich man, he finds himself invited ... view
Character:
Jean-Pierre Davier
Original title: La Femme de l'aviateur
1981
A student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and her ai ... view
Character:
Mercillat
May 1980 (first aired)
Master criminal Fantomas kills an ambassador, has an affair with the dead man's wife, sneaks into a rich woman's house handing out vanishing-ink busin ... view
Character:
Bonardin (1 ep.)
1980
Two couples, Eva and Edy and Martin and Charlotte are separated by a very different social condition. The first are rich bourgeois, the second are wor ... view
Character:
Arthur
Original title: Perceval le Gallois
1978
The film chronicles Perceval's knighthood, maturation and eventual peerage amongst the Knights of the Round Table, and also contains brief episodes fr ... view
Character:
Perceval
1978
Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent ... view
Character:
Camus, student
1978
Eric Rohmer and his actors prepare and rehearse "Perceval le Gallois". ... view
Character:
Original title: Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre)
1976
This is the tale of a father-son duo who are unable to leave each other. The trouble begins when the son decides to destroy his father's image. ... view
Character:
Vincent Vergne
Apr 1976 (first aired)
The César Awards are cinematographic awards created in 1976 and presented annually in Paris to professionals of the 7th art in various categories to ... view
Character:
Self - Presenter (1 ep.)
Self - Host (1 ep.)
1976
What happens to the actors when they are left to their own devices? How to tear the screen of conventional cinema? ... view
Character:
Fabrice
Original title: Contes immoraux
1974
Four erotic tales from in various historical eras. The first, 'The Tide', is set in the present day, and concerns a student and his young female cousi ... view
Character:
André - Story 1
Original title: Le Genou de Claire
1970
On the eve of his wedding, on holiday on the Lake Annecy shore, a career diplomat visits an old acquaintance, perhaps a former girlfriend. Through her ... view
Character:
Vincent
1969
Back in France after a few years in the United States, a reporter goes in search of his wife. ... view
Character:
Fabrice