Fabrice Luchini
Known for: 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fabrice Luchini, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
Series
Quotidien
Self
2016
Series
Quotidien
Self - Guest
2016
Series
Vivement dimanche
Self
1998
Series
LEGEND
2023
Series
Call My Agent!
Self
2015
Series
Ciné regards
Self
1978
Series
Cérémonie des César
Self - Presenter
1976
Series
Cérémonie des César
Self - Host
1976
Series
On n'est pas couché
Self - Guest
2006
Film
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
Jules César
2012
Film
Moliere
M. Jourdain
2007
Film
Trophy Wife
Robert Pujol
2010
Series
The Parisian Agency: Exclusive Properties
2020
Series
Aujourd'hui la vie
Self
1982
Film
In the House
Germain
2012
Film
Slack Bay
André van Peteghem
2016
Series
Class Act
Marcel Loiseau
2023
Film
Immoral Tales
André - Story 1
1974
Film
The Emperor of Paris
Fouché
2018
Film
Emmanuelle 4
Oswaldo
1984
Series
Fantômas
Bonardin
1980
Film
The Crime is Mine
Judge Rabusset
2023
Film
Uranus
Jourdan
1990
Film
Intimate Strangers
William
2004
Film
Hugo
Robert Zuchini
2026
Film
The Best Is Yet to Come
Arthur Dreyfus
2019
Film
Gemma Bovery
Martin
2014
Film
The Discreet
Antoine
1990
Film
The Return of Casanova
Camille
1992
Film
The Empire
Belzébuth
2024
Film
« Art »
Serge
1998
Film
Love Lessons
Émile
2026
Film
By Heart
Self
2022
Film
Jean-Philippe
Fabrice / Self
2006
Film
Men, Women: A User's Manual
Fabio Lini
1996
Film
Joan of Arc
Roi Charles VII
2019
Film
The Aviator's Wife
Mercillat
1981
Film
Paris
Roland Verneuil
2008
Film
The Women on the 6th Floor
Jean-Louis Joubert
2011
Film
The Mystery of Henri Pick
Jean Michel Rouche
2019
Film
Né
Self
1975
Triple sec
1986
Film
Treasure Hunters: On the Tracks of Khufu
Christian
2025
Film
Full Moon in Paris
Octave
1984
Film
Violette Nozière
Camus, student
1978
Film
Alice and the Mayor
Paul Theraneau
2019
Film
Droit de Réponse
Self
1981
Film
The Girl from Monaco
Bertrand Beauvois
2008
Film
Courted
Michel Racine
2015
Film
Claire's Knee
Vincent
1970
Film
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
Le marchand de tableau
1987
Film
The Juliette Year
Camille Prader
1995
Film
A Man in a Hurry
Alain
2018
Film
All That... for This?!
Fabrice Lenormand
1993
Film
Par cœur
Self
1998
Film
Marcello Mio
Fabrice
2024
Film
Barnie's Minor Annoyances
Barnie
2001
Film
Cycling with Molière
Serge Tanneur
2013
Film
The Baby
Joseph
2023
Film
Nothing About Robert
Didier Temple
1999
Film
Les Oreilles entre les dents
Luc Fabri
1987
Film
Laïcité, l'exception française - 120 ans, et maintenant ?
Self
2025
Film
Colonel Chabert
Derville
1994
Film
Paradise Hotel
Arthur
1986
Film
Journey to the End of the Night
Self
1990
Film
Zig Zag Story
Bob Hemler
1983
Film
Tout peut arriver
Fabrice
1969
Film
Toxic Affair
The Analyst
1993
Film
Natacha, (Almost) Air Hostess
Narrator
2025
Film
For Better and for Worse
Jean Leroy
2023
Film
Max My Love
Nicolas
1986
Film
Le Beau Monde
Jean-Pierre Davier
1981
Film
Lark, I'll Pluck You!
Jacques
1988
Film
Family Business
Shady Lawyer
1986
Film
On Guard
Count Gonzague
1997
Film
The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque
Marc Rossignol, l’instituteur
1993
Film
T'es folle ou quoi ?
Jean-François Sevran
1982
Film
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Self
2002
Film
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
2014
Film
Les années Bouvard : le rire et l’impertinence
Self (archive footage)
2019
Film
The Cost of Living
Brett
2003
Film
P.R.O.F.S.
Michel
1985
Film
Perceval
Perceval
1978
Film
A Day at the Museum
Guard at the Malraux museum
2008
Film
My Father's Guests
Arnaud
2010
Film
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
1996
Film
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Self (archive footage)
2020
Film
Stéphane Guillon - Portraits au vitriol (1ère salve)
Self
2008
Film
Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol
Narrator (voice)
2019
En répétant Perceval
1978
Film
The Color of the Wind
Serge
1988
Film
An Air So Pure
Magnus
1997
Film
Little Nothings
Lepetit
1992
Film
Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine
Doctor Knock
2004
Film
Keep It Quiet
Grégoire Jeancourt
1999
Film
La Fontaine et le Confinement
2024
Film
Le Point sur Robert
Fabrice Luchini
2008
Film
A Visit to Hokusai
Narrator
2014
Film
Fabrice Luchini : des écrivains parlent d'argent
2022
Film
Lettre de la Sierra Morena
Don Quichotte
1983
Film
Les Enfoirés 1999 - Dernière édition avant l'an 2000
1999
Les Écrans déchirés
Fabrice
1976
Film
Luchini - Variations La Fontaine
Self
2012
Film
Un début prometteur
Francis Vauvel
2015
Anne et François
François Mitterrand
Film
Six crimes sans assassins
Simon
1990
Film
La cloche a sonné
Simon Arcos
2005
Film
Vincent Put the Donkey in a Meadow (And Went Into the Other)
Vincent Vergne
1976
Film
Robin
Frédéric
1985
Il ne faut jurer de rien
1983
Film
Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme
Arthur
1980
Film
La Fée Carabine
Pastor
1988
Film
Céline Dion, la bande originale de sa vie
Self - Guest
2024