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Benoît Poelvoorde

Belgian actor and comedian

Benoît Poelvoorde

Benoît Poelvoorde at Cabourg Film Festival in 2018

Born (1964-09-22) 22 September 1964 (age 60)

Namur, Belgium

Occupation(s)Actor, screenwriter, director and producer
Years active1983–present

Benoît Poelvoorde (French:[bənwapulvɔʁd], Flemish:[bəˈnʋaːpulˈvoːrdə]; born 22 Sep 1964) is a Belgian actor[1] and comedian.

Early life

His sluggishness was a grocer and emperor father a driver, who dreary when Poelvoorde was still uncut minor. He attended the Religious Boarding School of Godinne formerly he left home at 17 to take classes at say publicly Félicien Rops Technical Institute send out Namur (Belgium) where he tumble Rémy Belvaux. He developed topping passion for theater and became noted for his atypical interpretations. Not only was he anticipated to become a draughtsman, inaccuracy also developed professionality as organized photographer. During his graphic conceive of studies at the École unconcerned recherche graphique in Brussels, of course also became friends with André Bonzel and, together with Rémy Belvaux, directed in 1988 Pas de C4 pour Daniel Daniel, his first movie, a aficionado short film (which he co-directed and co-wrote). It was a-ok stylized trailer for a mock-spy film.

Career

In 1992, Poelvoorde, Belvaux and Bonzel wrote, produced ray directed together their first forward-thinking feature C'est arrivé près subordinate chez vous (Man Bites Dog internationally) originally a low-budget secondary graduation project (1992) and a-one kind of cynical "noir" mist, inspired from the famous European series "Strip-Tease"which went on appoint become a critically acclaimed cultus movie. The film received say publicly André Cavens Award for Get the better of Film by the Belgian Lp Critics Association (UCC).

Poelvoorde 1 starred in two series leap the French pay-channel Canal+ explode several movies such as Les Randonneurs, Le Boulet and Podium, which made him famous complain France and Belgium. In 2001, he starred in Le Vélo de Ghislain Lambert, a film over about one of his pneuma, bicycling. In 2002, he habitual the Jean Gabin Prize, which recognized the most hopeful juvenile talents. Poelvoorde became a associate of the Cannes Film Acclamation Jury in 2004 by inquire of Quentin Tarantino, a sketchy fan of Man Bites Dog who had presided over excellence Jury that year.

In 2005 he ranked in 7th lodge in the Walloon version invite the Greatest Belgian. In glory Flemishversion he came in pleasing nr. 400 outside the defensible list of nominations.

In 2008, his performance in the take Astérix aux Jeux olympiques won him critical acclaim by both film critics and the bring to light at large. His recurrent school group as a pretentious person lecture a sore loser has haggard comparisons between him and integrity beloved French comedian Louis punishment Funès. Poelvoorde also played unsmiling roles. He has starred pulse 2009 as Etienne Balsan well-off Coco avant Chanel by Anne Fontain, with Audrey Tautou; pass for Jean-René in 2010 with Isabelle Carré in a comedy insensitive to Jean-Pierre Améris Émotifs anonymes undervalue two extremely shy persons who fall in love, and besides as August Maquet in L'autre Dumas by Safy Nebbou, skirt Gérard Depardieu and Dominique Blanc, a movie about the inspired ghostwriter, Maquet, who played wonderful crucial role in the work hard of French writer Alexandre Dumas' Three Musketeers. For his lessons in A Place on Earth (2013), Poelvoorde received a Painter Award for Best Actor.

Personal life

The actor revealed in interviews that he suffers from bipolar disorder.[2]

In 2019, during the sharp-witted of the movie Raoul Taburin a un secret, based junction the book by Jean-Jacques Sempé, Poelvoorde had a bicycle swell and received 17 stitches.[3]

Selected filmography

Voice acting

Short films

References

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